Road to WW2 · TURNING POINT ·
Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)
On the Road to WW2 map as “Marco Polo Bridge”
7 Jul 1937 — A missing soldier and a night skirmish at a bridge outside Peking escalate, unplanned, into full-scale war. Neither government orders it; neither can stop it.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Second Sino-Japanese War (chapter 6 of Road to WW2)
- Atlas
- The Road to War, 1931–1941
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- WW2 · Chinese Revolution
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