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1937 Historical background of Japanese invasion of China.
1868 After the Meiji Restoration, Japan's national strength grew rapidly, and Japan began to embark on the capitalist road and gradually developed into a militaristic country.

1894 After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, China and Japan signed the treaty of shimonoseki. Japan used 80% of the 230 million taels of reparations from China in the treaty to develop its military and embarked on the road of foreign aggression, and took the "mainland policy" as its basic national policy.

1900, because of the Boxer Rebellion, as one of the main forces of Eight-Nation Alliance, Japan occupied Tianjin and Beijing, and used the "Xin Chou Treaty" to garrison heavily in Beijing and Tianjin.

From 1904 to 1905, Japan won the Russo-Japanese War, conquered the Lushunkou fortress established by Russia, dealt a heavy blow to the Russian Baltic Fleet in the naval battle against Malaysia, seized the privilege of northeast China from Russia, and further strengthened Japan's ambition. 19 10 The merger of Japan and South Korea gave Japan and North Korea a springboard to invade China.

19 14, when World War I broke out, Japan declared war on Germany, invaded the Germans in Jiaozhou Bay, and then occupied Shandong. 19 15, signed Article 21 with Yuan Shikai, completely replacing Germany's privilege in Shandong.

On June 4th, 1928, the special car of warlord Zhang was blown to pieces by explosives buried under the bridge by the Japanese army when driving to bridge opening, the intersection of Tokyo and Nanman Railway at Huanggutun Station. Zhang was seriously injured and died. This is the "Huanggutun Incident" that caused a sensation at home and abroad.

1931September 18, the Japanese launched the September 18th Incident and occupied the northeast of China, thus forming the first war source in the East of the world.

1929, 10 In June, the economic crisis that began in the United States swept the whole capitalist world. Japan suffered heavy losses in the crisis, the national economy suffered losses, gold continued to flow out, industry shrank, and agriculture was in a hurry.

In order to get rid of the deep troubles caused by the world economic crisis and divert domestic attention, the Japanese empire embarked on the road of aggression, and Japanese militarists stepped up their established policy of aggression against China.

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Introduction of major historical events in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period;

1, September 18th Incident

The September 18th Incident (also known as the Fengtian Incident and the Liutiaohu Incident) was a war of aggression against China deliberately created and launched by Japan in the northeast of China, and it was the beginning of Japanese imperialist aggression against China.

/KOOC-0/93/KOOC-0/September/8, 2008/KOOC-0/8, under the arrangement of the Japanese Kwantung Army, the railway "guard" blew up the Nanman railway track near Shenyang Liutiao Lake (built by China and later occupied by Japan) and planted the Japanese army.

The Japanese army used this as an excuse to shell Shenyang Beidaying on the grounds of "September 18th Incident". The next day, the Japanese army invaded Shenyang and successively invaded the three northeastern provinces.

1February 932, the whole northeast fell. From then on, the Japanese established the puppet regime of Manchukuo in the northeast of China, and began to enslave and colonize the northeast people for 14 years.

The "September 18th Incident" was the inevitable result of Japanese imperialism's long-term policy of aggression and expansion against China, and it was also an important step to turn China into its exclusive colony. At the same time, it marked the beginning of the world anti-fascist war and kicked off the eastern battlefield of World War II.

2. July 7th Incident

1On the night of July 7th, 937, when the Japanese army was exercising near Lugou Bridge in the southwest of Beiping, they asked to enter Wanping County for a search on the pretext that a soldier was "missing", but 29 army, the defender of China, refused. The Japanese army then shot at the defenders of China and shelled the ancient city of Wanping.

The 29th Army rose up against Japan. This is the July 7th Incident that shocked China and foreign countries, also known as the Lugouqiao Incident. The July 7th Incident was the beginning of Japanese imperialism's full-scale war of aggression against China and the starting point of the Chinese nation's full-scale war of resistance.

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