1931September 18 What happened?

On September 18th Incident,1931September 18, the Japanese Kwantung Army stationed in the northeast of China suddenly attacked Shenyang and occupied the northeast by force. From the end of 19 to the first half of the 20th century, the Japanese gradually decided to conquer China and Manchuria before conquering China.

1930, the world capitalist economic crisis spread to Japan. In order to divert the increasingly fierce domestic class contradictions, the Japanese accelerated the pace of military aggression against China, and in July and August of 193 1, the Wanbaoshan Incident and the Nakamura Incident were created in the northeast of China. /kloc-In September of 0/8, the Japanese created the "Wicker Lake Incident" and launched a war of aggression against northeast China.

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1931September 18 night, under the arrangement of the Japanese Kwantung Army, the railway "garrison" blew up the Nanman railway track near Shenyang Liutiao Lake (built by China and later occupied by Japan) and planted it on the Japanese army.

The Japanese army used this as an excuse to shell Shenyang Beidaying on the grounds of "September 18th Incident". The next day, the Japanese army invaded Shenyang and successively invaded the three northeastern provinces. February 1932, the whole northeast fell. Since then, the Japanese established the puppet Manchukuo regime in the northeast of China, and began to enslave and colonize the northeast people for 14 years.

The "September 18th Incident" was the inevitable result of Japanese imperialism's long-term policy of aggression and expansion against China, and it was also an important step to turn China into its exclusive colony. At the same time, it marked the beginning of the world anti-fascist war and kicked off the eastern battlefield of World War II.

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