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Second Sino-Japanese War
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-45, conflict between Japanese and Chinese forces for control of the Chinese mainland. The war sapped the Nationalist government's strength while allowing the Communists to gain control over large areas through organization of guerrilla units. Thus, it was an important ... Read more
Beijing
Beijing or Peking , city (1994 est. urban pop. 6,093,300; 1994 est. total pop. 7,240,700), capital of the People's Republic of China. It is in central Hebei prov., but constitutes an independent unit (6,564 sq mi/17,000 sq km) administered directly by the national government. The second largest ... Read more
U-2 incident
U-2 incident in U.S. and Soviet history, the events following the Soviet downing of an American U-2 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft over Soviet territory on May 1, 1960. The incident led to the collapse of a proposed summit conference between the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain... Read more
Manchurian Incident
Manchurian Incident or Mukden Incident, 1931, confrontation that gave Japan the impetus to set up a puppet government in Manchuria. After the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), Japan replaced Russia as the dominant foreign power in S Manchuria. By the late 1920s the Japanese feared that unification o... Read more
Royal George
Royal George British naval vessel that sank on Aug. 29, 1782, while undergoing repairs at Spithead. Its commander, Admiral Richard Kempenfelt, and about 800 sailors and visitors were drowned. The incident is commemorated in William Cowper's poem "On the Loss of the Royal George." ... Read more
UFO
UFO a mysterious object seen in the sky (an Unidentified Flying Object) for which it is claimed no orthodox scientific explanation can be found. UFO incidents range from sightings of unidentified lights in the sky to accounts of supposed abductions by alien beings.... Read more
refraction
refraction in physics, deflection of a wave on passing obliquely from one transparent medium into a second medium in which its speed is different, as the passage of a light ray from air into glass. Other forms of electromagnetic radiation , in addition to light waves, can be refracted, as can soun... Read more
John Lloyd Stephens
John Lloyd Stephens 1805-52, American author and traveler, b. Shrewsbury, N.J., grad. Columbia College, 1822. His travels (1834-36) in Europe, the Middle East, and Central America provided the material for a number of studies. By far the best are Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia, Petraea, and ... Read more
My Lai incident
My Lai incident , in the Vietnam War, a massacre of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers. On Mar. 16, 1968, a unit of the U.S. army Americal division, led by Lt. William L. Calley, invaded the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai (more correctly, Son My), an alleged Viet Cong stronghold. In the course... Read more
albedo
albedo , reflectivity of the surface of a planet, moon, asteroid, or other celestial body that does not shine by its own light. Albedo is measured as the fraction of incident light that the surface reflects back in all directions. A perfect reflector by definition has an albedo of unity, i.e., all t... Read more

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China incident
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II China incident ( Shina jihen ), term employed...had used the word jihen (incident) to characterize events...was the ‘Mukden Incident’, or, as the sphere...the ‘Manchurian Incident’. Long before these incidents, elements of pan-Asianism...years after the Mukden ... Read more
China
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...theatre , and China incident . 1. Introduction The China incident , or Sino-Japanese...skirmish at the Marco Polo Bridge near Peking on...Harbor, the China Incident became a part...outbreak of the China Incident in July 1937... Read more
Chiang Kai-shek as war leader
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...December 1936, in what became known as the Sian incident, he was kidnapped by rebel army officers...territory were soon to culminate in the Marco Polo Bridge Clash and the start of the China incident . When Chiang stubbornly refused to treat... Read more
Second Sino-Japanese War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...often called the China Incident. Origins Following the Manchurian Incident (Sept., 1931), the Japanese...Chinese forces at the Marco Polo Bridge was the pretext for...D. J. Lu, From the Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor (1961... Read more
Hideki Tojo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...out with the Soviet Union. When full-scale hostilities broke out instead between China and Japan following the Marco Polo Bridge incident, Tojo in his first real taste of combat experience led two brigades in a blitzkrieg that quickly brought the... Read more
origins of the war
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...In 1931–2 the Japanese occupied Manchuria (see Manchukuo ). In July 1937 a clash at the Marco Polo Bridge near Peking led to the China incident . Nanking was captured in December 1937, and Canton in October 1938. By the end of 1939 Japan... Read more
Prince Fumimaro Konoe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...sooner had he formed a cabinet than he was faced with a crisis of the first magnitude. Konoe's handling of the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July 7, 1937, was less than skillful. A minor fracas between Chinese and Japanese soldiers in the vicinity... Read more

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Marco Polo Bridge Incident
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Marco Polo Bridge Incident (7 July 1937) When Japanese troops held manoeuvres on the outskirts...Japanese entered the city on 8 July. There is little evidence that the incident was an intended provocation, particularly since, under the command... Read more
Nanjing (Nanking), Rape of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident , on 13 December 1937 around 150,000 Japanese soldiers...which were complemented by tens of thousands of incidents of rape. These atrocities had been encouraged by... Read more
Sino-Japanese War
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...expansionism since the late 19th century, and after the MUKDEN INCIDENT of 1931 full-scale war was only a matter of time. Hostilities...declaration of war by either side, after a clash near the Marco Polo bridge just west of Beijing in 1937. The Japanese overran northern... Read more
Konoe Fumimaro
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...political life, and formed his first government in 1937. As Prime Minister during the Sino-Japanese War after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident (7 July 1937), his government was the last that had any realistic opportunity to check the escalation of Japanese... Read more
Ishiwara Kanji
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...the planning of the Manchurian Incident of September 1931, involving...Sino-Japanese War after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, mainly because he considered...responsibility for the Manchurian Incident and expressed his amazement... Read more

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The rape of Nanjing.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...in China -- were destroyed. The incident has come to be known as the `Rape...systematic nature, but also because the incident provides a clear and well-documented...with the Japanese attack on the Marco Polo Bridge and the occupation of Beijing... Read more