Rehe

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Rehe (Template:Zh-stpl), also known as Jehol, is a defunct Chinese province that used to consist of part of today Hebei Province, Shanxi Province and Inner Mongolia in northeastern China. Rehe's capital was Chengde. It was the traditional gateway to Mongolia and was overrun by Tatars, Huns, and Khitan Mongols.

Jehol was the name used in the 1930s for the province of China north of the Great Wall, west of Manchuria, and east of Mongolia. It was siezed by the Japanese during World War II on January 21, 1933 and attached to Manchukuo and not restored until the end of the war in August 1945. The Jehol campaign was the only occasion in which General Hideki Tojo commanded troops in combat. He seems to have done so quite efficiently. The siezure of Jehol was one of the most imortant of many incidents in the 1930s that poisoned relations between Japan and China, and between Japan and the western countries.

From 1945 to 1955 Rehe retained its provincial status.

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Template:WWII-stub Template:China-stub Template:ROC-stubja:熱河省