World War II in China Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Japanese invasion of China (1937–1945)
About World War II in China
—Chiang Kai-shek, Speech atLushan, just after the Marco Polo Bridge incident Japan quickly won theFirst Sino-Japanese Warin 1894-95 and, as a result, took overTaiwan, ended Chinese control of their former vassal stateKorea, and on the Chinese mainland took over the Liaodong Peninsula, part of today's province ofLiaoning. Later Japan acquired considerable influence inManchuriawhen they defeated the Russians in 1905; in particular they took over administration of the profitable Russian-built railway. Then following the end ofWorld War I, as part of the victorious Allies, Japan gained control of theShandongPeninsula from the defeated Germans. In 1931 they staged theMukdenIncident; Japanese troops bombed part of the railway, the attack was blamed on Chinese forces, and that gave Japan a pretex
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