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Hearts of iron 4 nationalist china8/28/2023 The 1931 Mukden incident (aka the 9.18 incident) did mark the first step of the Japanese invasion of China, but there was essentially no resistance from either the ruling Nationalist Party (the Kuomintang) nor the rebellious Communist Party. But the incident was used as a pretext for Japan to occupy Manchuria, today’s northeastern Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning provinces, where Japan established a puppet state called Manchukuo in 1932. The explosion was so small that a train even managed to pass through the damaged section soon afterwards. ![]() ![]() On September 18, 1931, the Japanese troops staged a bombing of their own railway in Mukden, now known as the northeastern city of Shenyang.
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