During the Nationalist's retreat from Nanjing, the dams around the city were deliberately destroyed by the Nationalist army in order to delay the Japanese advance, killing 500, 000 people in the subsequent 1938 Yellow River flood.

Between July and October, a rapid Nationalist advance from Seville to Toledo placed them in position to take the Spanish capital, Madrid.

At this time, several T-26 tanks under the command of Captain Paul Arman were thrown into a Republican counterattack directed towards the town of Torrejon de Velasco in an attempt to cut off the Nationalist advance north.

Wulongshan, where Nationalist troops stubbornly held out far longer than any expected, assuring that Sun could not continue his advance to Nanking.

* April 20 – A new Nationalist advance begins in Vizcaya province in northern Spain, supported by a preliminary aerial bombardment.

German air crews supported the Nationalist advance on Madrid, and the successful relief of the Siege of the Alcázar.

However, casualties were beginning to mount for the Legion and, combined with a resurgence in Republican air activity, the Nationalist advance stalled.

The rest of the battle saw a series of attacks using artillery or air strikes, followed by a Nationalist ground advance.

If the town was fortified ( which it was not ), it would have made a major obstacle to the Nationalist advance, which would be unable to pass beyond the town.

Franco replies that Nationalist armies would advance on Republican territory anyway.

While questions are often raised over the intent of the raid, the diaries of the planner and commander of the mission made public in the 1970s indicate that an attack on Guernica represented part of a wider Nationalist advance in the area and was also designed to support Franco's forces already in place.

Any Republican retreat towards Bilbao and any Nationalist advance towards Bilbao had to pass through Guernica.

The defence of El Mazuco offered the hope of stemming the Nationalist advance until winter ; if that had been achieved, then the course of the war would have been different.

The defenders of Madrid, who until now had to use Molotov cocktails ( glass bottles filled with gasoline and burning cloth ) against the German and Italian tanks on the Nationalist side, gain the ability to slow the Nationalist advance.

Between the 11th and the 18th, the Nationalist attackers have suffered 1, 290 casualties ; they have forced a wedge inside the Ciudad Universitaria but failed to control it or to advance into the capital.

The troops stop the Nationalist advance, but take horrible losses in doing so.

After the fall of Wang's government, Kung served as the Minister of Industry and Commerce from 1928-1931 in the Nanking Nationalist Government, and later as the Minister of Finance, from 1933 – 1944.

In 1912, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the new Nationalist government of the Republic of China banned foot binding, though, like its predecessors, not always successfully.

After the fall of the Ottoman dynasty as Emperors of the Ottoman State ( Padishahan-i Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmaniyye in Ottoman Turkish ), Abdulmecid II ( 1922 ) still was proclaimed Caliph with the title Halife (" Caliph ", in modern Turkish ) by the Turkish Nationalist Assembly of the city of Ankara on November 19th 1922.

The Nationalist aerial bombardment will overwhelm the defenders of Santander, which will fall to the Nationalists on August 26.

The fall of Taiyuan was one of the few examples in the Chinese Civil War in which Nationalist forces echoed the defeated Ming loyalists who had, in the 17th century, brought entire cities to ruins resisting the invading Manchus.

Heavy aerial bombardment from 200 Nationalist, German and Italian planes was used far behind Basque lines in August 1937, leading to the fall of Santander after the Battle of Santander on 1 September.

After the fall of China to Communist forces, General Wedemeyer would testify before Congress that while the loss of morale was indeed a cause of the defeat of the Nationalist Chinese forces, the Truman administration's 1947 decision to discontinue further training and modernizing of Nationalist forces, the U. S .- imposed arms embargo, and constant anti-Nationalist sentiment expressed by Western journalists and policymakers were primary causes of that loss of morale.

In the fall of 1940, the Communist New Fourth Army attacked Nationalist forces under Han Deqin.

It was in theory a united front against Japan but in practice there was friction between Nationalist and Communist Forces, which intensified in the fall of 1940, culminating in the New Fourth Army Incident with a full fledged battle between the New Fourth Army and KMT National Revolutionary Army forces.

In 1949, following the fall of China to the communists, Lee represented a CIA-front company in the Hong Kong and UK courts in a successful effort to keep a large fleet of transport aircraft in Hong Kong, once owned by the Nationalist Chinese government, from being turned over to the new communist Chinese regime after its recognition by the British.

The first incident of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s occurred during the early hours of October 29, 1950, in Peñuelas, when the insular police of that town surrounded the house of the mother of Melitón Muñiz Santos, the president of the Peñuelas Nationalist Party in the bario Macaná, under the pretext that he was storing weapons for the Nationalist Revolt.

In 1938, during the war with Japan, the retreating Chinese Nationalist Army blew up the dikes retaining the Yellow River about 32 km northeast of the town, flooding a vast area.

The MPI and PSP continued the tradition set in the 1930s by Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos of holding a massive rally commemorating the 1868 anticolonial uprising against Spanish rule at the small mountain town of Lares each 23 September.

* June 2 – Nationalist aircraft bomb Granollers, Spain, a town without military significance, killing about 100 people.

After Nationalist forces led by General Emilio Mola's forces took the town three days later, the Nationalist side claimed that no effort to establish an accurate number have been made by the opposite side.

The Nationalist junta gave a patently false description of the events ( claiming that the destruction had been caused by Republicans burning the town as they fled ) and seem to have made no effort to establish an accurate number.

Betances ' remains arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 5, 1920, and a funeral caravan organized by the Nationalist Association transferred the remains from the San Juan to the town of Cabo Rojo where his ashes were interred by his monument.

Picasso's purpose in painting it was to bring the world's attention to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by German bombers, who were supporting the Nationalist forces of General Franco during the Spanish Civil War.

* The name Eusko Abertzaleak ( Basque Patriots ) is used by various parliamentary and town council groups of the Basque Nationalist Party.

The first battle of the Nationalist uprisings occurred in the pre-dawn hours of October 29, in the barrio Macaná in the town of Peñuelas.

On October 30, 1950, the Nationalist leaders in Jayuya, which included Canales, her cousin Elio Torresola ( Griselio Torresola's brother ) and Carlos Irizarry, entered the town of Jayuya with their group using a bus and a car.

The Jayuya Uprising, also known as the Jayuya Revolt or El Grito de Jayuya, was a Nationalist revolt that took place on October 30, 1950, in the town of Jayuya, Puerto Rico.

The Insular Police of that town surrounded the house of the mother of Melitón Muñiz Santos, president of the Peñuelas Nationalist Party, in barrio Macaná, under the pretext that he was storing weapons for the Nationalist Revolt there.

Canales and the other leaders of the Nationalist Party in Jayuya, which included Canales ' cousin and Elio Torresola ( Griselio Torresola's brother ) as well as Carlos Irizarry, led the armed Nationalists into the town and invaded the police station.

On March 7, the German Condor Legion equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes arrived in Spain ; on April 26 they bombed the town of Guernica ( Gernika ) in the Basque Country ; two days later, Nationalist General Emilio Mola's men entered the town.