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Japan/Asia in World War II
Final Exam review - Greater East Asian WAr
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History
Undergraduate 2
12/19/2011

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Term
China Incident
Definition

the extension of war from Manchuria to China. For Japan, WWII started with this. Began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, 1937. "incident" not war used at first.

- Not subject to the Geneva Conventions

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Tangku Truce
Definition

1933

- Ceasefire between Kuomintang and Japan. De facto recognition of Manchukuo; demilitarized zone between great wall and Beijing-Tianjin/Peking-Tientsin railway

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Reactions to the China Incident
Definition

China: non resistent. Chiang Kai-shek concentrated on campaigns against the Chinese Communist PArty

US, Britain: nominal objection, preoccuipied with great depression

USSR: Withdrew from northern Manchuria, sold off Chinese Eastern Railway. Stalin consolidating power

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Uneasy truce to open war (following China incident)
Definition

- JP ops in N. China

- Sian incident, 1936

-- On 12 December 1936,Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Marshal Zhang Xueliang, a former warlord of Manchuria, then Japan-occupied Manchukuo.

The incident led the Nationalists and the Communists to make peace so that the two could form a united front against the increasing threat posed by Japan.

- Marco Polo Bridge Incident, July 7, 1937

 

 

 

 

 

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Marco Polo Bridge Incident, July 7, 1937
Definition
 - a battle between the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army, often used as the marker for the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).
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