Japan invades Manchuria
September 18, 1931
Japanese officers blew up a small stretch of their own railway near Mukden and blamed Chinese bandits. Within months the entire Chinese northeast was under Japanese occupation as the puppet state of Manchukuo. The League of Nations sent a commission and wagged its finger. Japan walked out. The Second World War in Asia had quietly begun.
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