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the extension of war from Manchuria to China. For Japan, WWII started with this. Began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, 1937. "incident" not war used at first.
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1933
- Ceasefire between Kuomintang and Japan. De facto recognition of Manchukuo; demilitarized zone between great wall and Beijing-Tianjin/Peking-Tientsin railway
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| Reactions to the China Incident |
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China: non resistent. Chiang Kai-shek concentrated on campaigns against the Chinese Communist PArty
US, Britain: nominal objection, preoccuipied with great depression
USSR: Withdrew from northern Manchuria, sold off Chinese Eastern Railway. Stalin consolidating power |
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| Uneasy truce to open war (following China incident) |
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- JP ops in N. China
- Sian incident, 1936
-- On 12 December 1936,Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Marshal Zhang Xueliang, a former warlord of Manchuria, then Japan-occupied Manchukuo.
The incident led the Nationalists and the Communists to make peace so that the two could form a united front against the increasing threat posed by Japan.
- Marco Polo Bridge Incident, July 7, 1937
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| - Marco Polo Bridge Incident, July 7, 1937 |
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| - a battle between the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army, often used as the marker for the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). |
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