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Mukden Incident (1931)
On the Road to WW2 map as “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.
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- Great Depression and causes of WW2 (chapter 1 of Road to WW2)
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- The Road to War, 1931–1941
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- Chinese Revolution
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