Mukden Incident / Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1931 · Event
Japanese officers stage an explosion on the South Manchuria Railway near Mukden and use it as a pretext to invade Manchuria; the puppet state of Manchukuo follows in 1932.
On these timelines: Master, Japan, World War II, China
Around 1931
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)