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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
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UFO
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refraction
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John Lloyd Stephens
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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
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Encyclopedia entries related to "Marco Polo Bridge Incident"

China incident
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...x2018;Mukden Incident’, or...x2018;Manchurian Incident’. Long before these incidents, elements of pan...after the Mukden Incident (see Manchukuo...manoeuvres near the Marco Polo Bridge, a few kilometres...
Second Sino-Japanese War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...war was often called the China Incident. Origins Following the Manchurian...Beijing and Chinese forces at the Marco Polo Bridge was the pretext for Japanese occupation...1954); D. J. Lu, From the Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor (1961...
China
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...India theatre , and China incident . 1. Introduction The China incident , or Sino-Japanese war...with a minor skirmish at the Marco Polo Bridge near Peking on 7 July 1937...Pearl Harbor, the China Incident became a part of the Pacific...
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...Chinese territory were soon to culminate in the Marco Polo Bridge Clash and the start of the China incident . When Chiang stubbornly refused to treat...
origins of the war
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...x2013;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...
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...
Hideki Tojo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...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...

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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...
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 to...
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...
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...
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...declaration of war by either side, after a clash near the Marco Polo bridge just west of Beijing in 1937. The Japanese overran...

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Interview: Japan's invasive policy creates Marco Polo Bridge Incident
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 7/7/2005; 582 words ; ...Interview: Japan's invasive policy creates Marco Polo Bridge Incident TOKYO, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which marked the...territory dates back to the 1930s. Prior to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937...
China stresses improving ties with Japan on anniversary of Marco Polo Bridge Incident
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 7/7/2005; 507 words ; ...stresses improving ties with Japan on anniversary of Marco Polo Bridge Incident BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- China reiterated...is marking the 68th anniversary of the Lugouqiao (Marco Polo Bridge) Incident. The Incident was an excuse taken...
Oly: WWII began at Marco Polo Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 8/19/2008; 700+ words ; ...2008 Oly: WWII began at Marco Polo Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing...Yongding River is the famous Marco Polo Bridge, 15km from...Dynasty in 1192, the Marco Polo Bridge in the 1930s...incited a series of 'incidents' throughout the 1930s...
Tourist District Rises Around Marco Polo Bridge
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 11/24/2000; 396 words ; ...tourist and cultural district near the Lugou Bridge in southwest Beijing. On July 7, 1937, Japanese...Lugou Bridge, better known in the west as the Marco Polo Bridge. The Lugou Bridge Incident sparked the eight-year War of Resistance Against...
People in China commemorate July 7 Lugou Bridge Incident
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 7/7/2004; 700+ words ; ...commemorate July 7 Lugou Bridge Incident BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua...anniversary of the July 7 Lugou Bridge Incident on Wednesday...situated near the Lugou Bridge, southwest of Beijing...Lugouqiao (known as the Marco Polo Bridge), and Chinese...
Light shed on Lugouqiao Incident
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 7/7/2005; 700+ words ; ...Army fighting around Lugouqiao Bridge (Marco Polo Bridge) in southern suburban Beijing...to beg for mercy." Lugouqiao Incident Standing above the Yongding River...were deployed to the west end of Marco Polo Bridge while Kuomintang forces...
New Party delegation visits Lugou Bridge, memorial hall
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 7/11/2005; 621 words ; ...delegation visits Lugou Bridge, memorial hall BEIJING...Bridge, also known as the Marco Polo Bridge, which used to...association with "July 7 Incident". On July 7, 1937...or Lugou (known as the Marco Polo Bridge), about 20 km...
Chinese People Mark 60th Anniversary of July 7 Incident
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 7/7/1997; 595 words ; ...anniversary here today of the July 7 Incident, the opening salvo in the nation...located near west Beijing's Lugou Bridge (Marco Polo Bridge), where the incident broke out...resistance from Chinese forces at Lugou Bridge. The incident marked the start...
Beijing marks 65th anniversary of July 7th Incident
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 7/7/2002; 508 words ; ...anniversary of July 7th Incident BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua...pictures of the July 7th Incident in 1937, was launched...called "Lugouqiao (Marco Polo Bridge) Incident" in southwest...located beside the Lugou Bridge and has an area of 10...
Insight: A day that pains people even 70 years later
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 7/9/2007; 700+ words ; ...army attacked the Marco Polo Bridge in southwestern Beijing...people gathered at the Marco Polo Bridge, and a...had gathered at the Marco Polo Bridge was 89...surviving witnesses of the Marco Polo Bridge incident. He has interviewed...