ocr: Relations further deteriorated as military lactions in apan aspired for more territory. Japan needed rawy materials fori industrialization and more land to support the nation's growing population. The warlords planned to expand south--directly into colontes owned by other nations-to dominate East Asia, Japan went to war with China again in 1937 with a bomb assault on Shanghai, By 1938 they were deep into Chinese territory, encounter- ing litte resistance trom Chiang Kai Cheks Nationalist army Chiang was more concerned about lighting the Communists). The Chinese Connunists in Northern China, ho ...
