Japan's War in Manchuria, 1931-33

Colonial Empire

Taiwan

Defeat of China, 1895

Liaodong, China

Defeat of Russia, 1905

Korea

Protectorate, 1905

Colony, 1910

Origins of China's Disunity

Fall of Qing Dynasty, October 1911

Republic of China, 1912

Warlordism, 1916-1927

Chinese Civil War, 1927-48

Guomindang (National People's Party)

"President" Chiang Kai-shek

Republic of China redeclared Oct. 10, 1928

Capital in Nanjing

Remaining warlords give "loyalty" to government

Chinese Communist Party

Chairman Mao Zedong

Manchuria

*Kwantung Army

Liaodong and Manchurian R.R.

Conspirators

Col. Ishiwara Kanji

Imperial Way faction (Gordon, p. 193)

Manchurian warlord army

Zhang Zuolin

Assassinated 1928

Zhang Xueliang

"The Young Marshall"

Invasion of Manchuria

*Manchurian "Incident"

Mukden, Sept. 18, 1931

Kwantung Army attack

Lack of Manchurian army resistance

Shanghai battles, Jan.-May 1932

Kwantung Army encroachment, Feb.-May 1933

Jehol (Rehe)

*Manchukuo established, March 1932

*Puyi, “The Last Emperor”

Emperor, March 1934