December 1937 in Asia

The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was the mass rape and murder of Chinese civilians, noncombatants, and prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China. It took place immediately after the Battle of Nanjing and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Japanese attack on a US gunboat in 1937

legislative election in the Soviet Union

1937-1938 Japanese suppression of socialists and communists

1937 battle