Mukden Incident

1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18

Contemporaries

Staged railway explosion near Shenyang on 18 September 1931, used by Japan's Kwantung Army as a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.

Entities involved

Japanese

Chinese

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