an alien invasion is scheduled for sometime next week. But the experts cannot crack the code to find out the day and time. help them out. use any map in your atlas to locate the following countries. The first letter of each place name will tell you when to expect the invasion

Ibelieve the answer would be a large-scale natural disaster 

It's either  a. chiang kai-shek and the nationalists turned against the communists and killed hundreds of them. orb. hundreds of peasants were killed in shanghai during the period of warlord rule.  if we take into account that there was warlord rule at the time, i think that it's b (not entirely sure though)just my best thoughts.

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