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Turning point · The Road to War, 1931–1941
The Mukden Incident
18 Sep 1931 — Kwantung Army officers dynamite their own railway outside Mukden and blame Chinese soldiers. Within months Japan’s army — not its government — has taken all of Manchuria.
This is one scene of Chapter 1 — The World the Slump Made in The Road to War, 1931–1941.
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