During which war was the Burma Road built?

The Burma Road linked Burma, now known as Myanmar, with southwest China. It was built while Burma was a British colony to convey supplies to China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). This was initially a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. It made up the Chinese theater of a wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War.

It started at the Marco Polo Bridge on July 7, 1937, when a dispute between the Japanese and Chinese troops in Peking escalated into a full-scale invasion. It is often regarded as the beginning of WWII in Asia.

Preventing the flow of supplies on the road helped motivate the occupation of Burma by the Empire of Japan in 1942. Use of the road was restored to the Allies in 1945 after the completion of the Ledo Road. The Ledo Road was an overland connection between India and China built as an alternative to the Burma Road.

The road is 717 miles (1,154 km) long and runs through rough mountain country. Some sections were built by 200,00 Burmese and Chinese laborers, started in 1937 and competed a year later. Some parts of the old road are still visible today.