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Mukden Incident

September 18, 1931 · Shenyang

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

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Key people

Doihara Kenji perpetrator, Kwantung Army intelligence chief in Mukden · Japanese Seishirō Itagaki perpetrator, planned the bombing as a Kwantung Army staff officer · Japanese Kanji Ishiwara perpetrator, planned the bombing as a Kwantung Army staff officer · Japanese

Participants

Strength and losses

Chinese
Strength 160,000

Before and after

Led to
Japanese invasion of Manchuria September 18, 1931 – February 27, 1932

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Shanghai massacre
 
Nanchang Uprising
 
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
 
Mukden Incident
 
Nazi seizure of power
 
Tanggu Truce
 
Long March
 
Xi'an Incident
 
Second Sino-Japanese War

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