Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Shandong Peninsula.
Having secured agreement from the Allies and the United States to Japan’s claims to the Shantung peninsula, the Japanese government now supported Duan’s military efforts, offered loans, and provided technical assistance.
2014, William Mulligan, The Great War for Peace, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1982 more examples
The Yellow River—the “Sorrow of China”—comes down from the loess hills into the great plain of China on a gently sloping fan. The river has two possible outlets to the sea, the one north of the Shantung Peninsula into the Gulf of Chihli, the other some hundreds of miles to the south of the Peninsula.
1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 45In response to British requests for material assistance during the war, and in exchange for cooperation in territorial moves both in the central Pacific and on the Shantung peninsula in China, Japan deployed a naval task force consisting of a cruiser and eight destroyers to bolster Royal Navy operations in the Mediterranean theater.
2016, John M. Lillard, Playing War: Wargaming and U.S. Navy Preparations for World War II, Potomac Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170
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