Burma receives a constitution from Britain in 1937; making Burma a separate nation with Rangoon as its capital.

Japan, using a Chinese-Japanese military clash at the Marco Polo bridge near Beijing as a pretext launches a full-scale invasion of China in July 1937 with attacks on Chinese ports.

The KMT government evacuates Nanjing.

US president Roosevelt responds in October by speaking of the need “to quarantine the agressors”, a call to which the largely isolationist US citizenry responds negatively.