Museum of Chinese in America - The Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937 marked the official beginning of a full-scale war between China and Japan, known as the Second Sino-Japanese War. The
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China: A barricade hastily erected by the British at the Shanghai International Settlement during the Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1937. Following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in July 1937, the Battle
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Visitors look at wartime photographs displayed at Marco Polo Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing July 7, 2007. About 1,000 people attended a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of
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Detailed Map of the North Branch Incident / List all kinds of relations between Japan, Manchuria, Russia, Support, Mengo, and Japan. / 北支事變明細圖解 / 日·満·露·支·蒙·関係一覽.: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
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