Summary: The Rape Of Nanking

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Before Japan’s formal affirmation of entering World War II, the military might of the island nation had been involved in previous battles with its fellow neighbor China, conquering land and taking valuable resources. On September 18, 1931, Japan blew up a Railroad in northeastern China. Labeling it as a sabotage by Chinese forces, Japan invades Manchuria and military occupation of the region is complete within six months. During the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on July, 1937, Japan on the guise of a military exercise launch an assault on the city of Nanking. With the city captured and subject to months of destruction, led to the tragedy of The Rape Of Nanking with 300,000 Chinese civilians dead. In the following years between November 1938 and