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The Mukden incident was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria. [1] [2] [3]On September 18, 1931, Lieutenant Suemori Kawamoto of the Independent Garrison Unit [] of the 29th Japanese Infantry Regiment [] detonated a small quantity of dynamite [4] close to a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway near ...
Saito, Hirosi. "A Japanese view of the Manchurian situation." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 165 (1933): 159–166. in JSTOR; Walters, Francis Paul. A History of The League of Nations. London: Oxford University Press, 1960. pp. 491–492. Available on the site of the United Nations Office in Geneva online
The siege of Changchun was a military blockade undertaken by the People's Liberation Army against Changchun between May and October 1948, the largest city in Manchuria at the time, and one of the headquarters of the Republic of China Army in Northeast China.
Manchuria is a term that refers to a region in northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day northeast China, and historically parts of the modern-day Russian Far East, often referred to as Outer Manchuria.
The findings of the Lytton Commission revealed that the Manchurian Incident was fabricated; Manchukuo was merely a puppet state of Japan; and Japan's actions constituted unjustified aggression. [150] When the League of Nations officially endorsed the Lytton Report in February 1933, Japan responded by withdrawing from the international ...
Involving 610,000 combat participants and 164,000 combatant casualties, it was the largest modern-era battle fought prior to World War I, and possibly the largest battle in world history at that point. [8] The scale of the battle, particularly in the amount of ordnance being expended, was unprecedented in world history.
Mukden incident: 1931: Also called the Manchurian incident, Liutiaoukou incident or September 18 incident, a staged sabotage of a South Manchuria Railway track that led to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Japanese government officials argued that the invasion was not a war, so referred to it as an "incident".
From 698 to 926, the kingdom of Bohai ruled over all of Manchuria, including the northern Korean peninsula and Primorsky Krai.Balhae was composed predominantly of Goguryeo language and Tungusic-speaking peoples (Mohe people), and was an early feudal medieval state of Eastern Asia, which developed its industry, agriculture, animal husbandry, and had its own cultural traditions and art.