the allied landings in normandy event began the second front in world war ii.
the allied landings in normandy event began the second front in world war ii.
what event began the second front in world war ii?
the allied landings in normandy
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the “third front” refers to a geographic area in china’s interior. it is relative to the “first front” area on the east coast, northeast, and xinjiang, places likely to be the immediate war fronts in case of war. beijing-guangzhou railway, wushaoling, yanmen pass, and nanling form the boundary of the third front. specifically, its geographic region included three provinces in the southwest (sichuan, including today’s chongqing, yunnan, and guizhou), three provinces and one ethnical autonomous region in the northwest (shaanxi, qinghai, eastern part of gansu, ningxia), parts of hebei, henan, and hunan that are to the west of the beijing-guangzhou railway, and northwest guangxi and south shanxi. the rest of china between the first front and the third front was called the second front; the vast area between provinces on the first front and the beijing-guangzhou railway. the second front includes anhui, jiangxi and east parts of hebei, henan, hubei, hunan. among the third front region, guizhou, the mountainous east sichuan, sichuan basin, south shaanxin (hanzhong and the northern piedmont of the qin mountains) attracted the most firms, research institutes, and workers due to the third front movement. panzhihua in sichuan and jiuquan in gansu hosted new steel industries. sichuan and longxi county, gansu has clusters of mining firms for nonferrous metals. coal mining firms were scattered across sichuan, yunnan, guizhou, gansu, qinghai, shaanxi. hydropower stations were built on the upper reaches of the yangtze river and the yellow river, while new large-scale thermal power stations were built in cities such as baoji in shaanxi, guiyang in guizhou. machinery plants were mainly located in sichuan and guizhou. chengdu in sichuan received many plants producing electronic devices and airplanes. mianyang and guangyuan received many plants in the nuclear industry and the electronic industries. chongqing is a center for conventional weapons, producing rifles, tanks, trucks, and conventional powered submarines. guiyang formed a cluster of photo-electricity plants. anshun has a new cluster of airplane plants. some of these firms in the third front were relocated from the first front and the second front regions, yet many more were newly built.
third front (china)