May 14, 2018 · Panay Incident (1937).An important, if short‐lived, crisis in U.S.‐Japanese relations occurred in the 1930s as Japan launched the Second Sino‐Japanese War in July 1937. The Japanese had quickly conquered Beijing , Shanghai …

Sino-Japanese hostilities caused the U.S. to deploy more troops to China in the 1930s. In 1932 the Thirty-first U.S. Infantry Regiment joined the Fourth Marines in Shanghai. The Sixth Marines reinforced the city in 1937. In December 1937, a Japanese air attack sank the U.S. gunboat Panay in the Chang. In 1938 the Sixth Marines and the Fifteenth ...

May 17, 2018 · In December, a Japanese pilot attacked and sunk the U.S.S. Panay on the Yangtze River, but this incident merely reinforced American isolationism. World War II and Aftermath After World War II began in Europe in September 1939, Japan invited war with the United States the next year when it signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy and ...

In real life, the Panay was sunk without provocation on 12 December 1937 by Japanese bombers. The others in the Far East were destroyed early in World War II. The others in the Far East were destroyed early in World War II.

Panay (pänī´), island (1990 pop. 3,136,425), 4,446 sq mi (11,515 sq km), one of the Visayan Islands, 6th largest of the Philippines, NW of Negros. Primarily agricultural with extensive lowlands, it is a major rice and sugarcane producing area. Industries include sugar-processing, lumbering, and fishing.

The cebu warty pig, Panay flying fox, and Chapman's fruit bat have become extinct. POPULATION The population of Philippines in 2005 was estimated by the United Nations (UN) at 84,765,000, which placed it at number 12 in population among the 193 nations of the world.

Sulod The Sulod (Buki, Bukidnon, Mondo, Mundo, Putian) are a mountain people numbering about 14,000 in 1980, who live along the banks of the Panay River on central Panay Island in the Bisayan Islands in the central Philippines. Sulod is classified in the Hesperonesian Group of the Austronesian Language Family.

Other regions of Panay have their own distinct languages, including Capizeño, Aklanon, and Kiniray-a. Narrow straits link Panay and western Negros, and Hiligaynon is spoken on both shores. Mountains separate western from eastern Negros, whose inhabitants speak Cebuano, a language that Hiligaynon cannot readily understand. FOLKLORE

May 18, 2018 · DEBS, EUGENE VICTOR Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) was a pioneer labor organizer and five-time Socialist Party candidate for the U.S. Presidency.

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