试析20世纪40年代初河南灾荒的成因

On the Reason for the Disasters in Henan at the Beginning of the 1940s

20世纪40年代初,河南爆发了震惊中外的大灾荒,旱、蝗、泛、疫多种灾害接连发生,历时两三年,遍及全省,致使200万-300万人死亡,是中国近代灾荒史上最严重的灾荒之一。造成此次灾荒的成因有自然原因、日寇的侵略、国民政府的腐败等几个方面,而日寇的破坏、掠夺则是其中的重要原因。

At the beginning of the 1940s, disasters of drought,locusts , flood and epidemic broke out in Henan one after another which claimed about 3000000 people＇s lives. The reasons for these are natural elements, Japanese invasion and the corruption of kuomintang government of which the Japanese invasion plays a key part.