Manchurian Incident

(noun)

A staged event engineered by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion in 1931 of northeastern China, known as Manchuria.

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Examples of Manchurian Incident in the following topics:

  • Japanese Incursions into China

    • Thus, in 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria, in what is known as the Mukden Incident (or the Manchurian Incident).
    • Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements, so-called "incidents," such as the Mukden Incident.
    • The last of these incidents was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937, which marked the beginning of total war between the two countries.
    • Japan's government was initially reluctant to escalate the conflict into full scale war after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, being content with the victories achieved.
    • This WWII-era documentary describes the Japanese invasions into China, including the Mukden Incident and the Rape of Nanking.

  • Japanese Expansion

    • During the Manchurian Incident of 1931, radical army officers bombed a small portion of the South Manchuria Railroad and, falsely attributing the attack to the Chinese, invaded Manchuria.

  • Yalta and the Postwar World

    • One Soviet precondition for a declaration of war against Japan was an American recognition of Mongolian independence from China and a recognition of Soviet interests in the Manchurian railways and Port Arthur as well as deprivation of Japanese soil (such as Sakhalin and Kuril Islands) to return to Russian custody since the Treaty of Portsmouth.

  • The Sand-Lot Incident

  • Women and Slavery

    • Harriet Jacobs documented her experience with sexual abuse in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

  • Commitment to Vietnam

    • The Gulf of Tonkin Incident proved an escalating factor of the war and justification of continued American presence in Vietnam.
    • Robert McNamarra recounts the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, ultimately reporting that "It didn't happen."

  • Police

    • Incidents such as the 1965 Watts Riots and the videotaped 1991 beating by of Rodney King by Los Angeles Police officers and the riot following their acquittal, have been suggested by some as evidence that U.S. police are dangerously lacking in appropriate controls.
    • Incidents such as the 1965 Watts Riots and the videotaped 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles Police officers and the riot following their acquittal have been suggested by some as evidence that U.S. police are dangerously lacking in appropriate controls.

  • The Boston Massacre and Military Occupation

    • The Boston Massacre, called "The Incident on King Street" by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five colonial civilian men.

  • Reporting Intangibles

    • Cost includes all costs of acquisition and expenditures necessary to make the intangible asset ready for its intended use—for example, purchase price, legal fees, and other incidental expenses.

  • Torque on a Current Loop: Rectangular and General

    • Incidentally, those forces are vertical and thus parallel to the shaft.