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Why Did the League of Nations Fail to Stop the Manchurian Crisis? - The Puppet Emperor and Japan's Manchurian Empire | Sleepy Facts About History
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On the night of September 18, 1931, a small explosion damaged a section of railway track near Mukden in northeastern China. The blast was deliberately minor, but it served as the pretext for a massive geopolitical shift. Within hours, Japanese troops seized the city, and within months, they occupied a region larger than France and Germany combined. This was not a grand invasion ordered from above, but a situation manufactured by mid-level officers who understood that if they moved fast…
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