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Japanese invade China
The Japanese invaded and occupied Manchuria. the Japanese turned Manchuria into a nominally independant state called Manchukuo. China appealed to the League of Nations and published a Lython report which outraged the Japanese delegation. The Japanese left the League of Nations and never returned. -
Second Sino-Japanese War
The Marco Polo incident in 1937 started the second Sino-Japanese War. The Chinese nationalists and communists agreed to fight Japan. Stalin saw Japan as a threat and began supplying China. -
Fall of Nanking
At the fall of Nanking, the Japanese troops slaughtered 300,000 civilians and raped 80,000 women. -
End of the Second Sino-Japanese War
The war was called a draw.
