shot; charge; blow; punch; home run; try
(sound of a) gunshot; (gun) report
Marco Polo Bridge Incident (July 7, 1937)
skirmish; brush (with the enemy); small fight with a military enemy; squabble; quarrel; brief argument
to pin down; to immobilize; to immobilise; to control; to suppress
do-or-die resistance; resistance to the bitter end
Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927); Nanking Massacre (1937); Rape of Nanking
Nanking Massacre (1937); Rape of Nanking
victim; injured party; sufferer
act of barbarity; barbarism; brutality; savagery
at any rate; in any event; either way; anyway
the rising generation; children
English-speaking world; English-speaking countries; Anglosphere
Axis powers (World War II)
smelling burnt; smelling scorched; smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if armed conflict is about to break out); tense; suspicious; dubious
fascist party; National Fascist Party (Italy; 1921-1943); Partito Nazionale Fascista; PNF
Nazism; national socialism
Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers' Party)
axle; pivot; center (of power, activity); central point; the Axis (WWII alliance)
Japan and Germany; Japanese-German
anticommunist (policies or measures)
hypothetical or imaginary enemy
residential area; quarter; neighbourhood; neighborhood