Mukden Incident
WarJapan's Kwantung Army stages a railway explosion near Mukden as a pretext for invading Manchuria.
- Date
- September 18, 1931 · On this day · View on map
- Regions
- East Asia
- Location
- Mukden (Shenyang)
- Importance
- ★★★★★
- Sources
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