HIST 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: January 28 Incident, De Facto, Zhang Xueliang
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Interest in taking all of manchuria hopes xueliang would be more pro-jap. Wait for another opportunity and bomb a part of the railroad. Essential took part of a really large part of manchuria building up mainland empire cheap labor to be exploited for the homeland japan. Consequences for japan assassinations of a prime minister lack of moral standing. Japanese idea is to appeal to manchus appoints last emperor puyi. The face of manchukuo in the outside world. United states had idea of free trade with whoever was available. De facto politically the end of the league of nations by 1930s. Shanghai incident as a result lost a lot of international trust killing civilians. Air force use to bombard a city first time. 1936-37 strikes again social unrest in japan reflecting collapse of political existence to sidetrack and reestablish national pride harassment of border increased few troops left around beijing troops resist near ningbo shanghai nanjing leave city undefended leads to.