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Military campaigns involving Japan
- Suiyuan campaignIn September 1931, the Mukden Incident triggered a chain of events that reshaped East Asia. The Japanese Kwantung Army occupied three northeastern provinces…
- Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933–1936)In February 1933, the Kwantung Army left a small detachment to watch the eastern Rehe border while moving its main forces south.
- Malayan campaignIn 1941, the Japanese military found itself trapped by its own expansion. Four years of fighting in China had drained resources, and oil imports from the…
- Aleutian Islands campaignIn 1935, U.S. General Billy Mitchell told Congress that whoever holds Alaska will hold the world. He called it the most important strategic place in the…
- Japanese invasion of ManchuriaBy the end of the 1920s, 39.4 percent of all colonial financial investments went into Manchuria. This massive economic stake created a fragile dependency for…
- Guadalcanal campaignOn the 7th of December 1941, Japanese forces attacked the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack killed almost 2,500 people and…