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Events on Tuesday 20 August 1940 1
1940Hundred Regiments OffensiveChinese Communist forces attack Japanese railways and garrisonsFrom 20 August the Eighth Route Army under Peng Dehuai attacked Japanese railways, roads and blockhouses across northern China. It was the largest Communist offensive of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan retaliated with the brutal "Three Alls" policy.