WW2 · TURNING POINT ·
Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)
On the WW2 map as “Marco Polo Bridge”
7 Jul 1937 — A skirmish at the Marco Polo Bridge, outside Beijing, leads to full-scale war between Japan and China.
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- Type
- Turning point
- Chapter
- Japanese expansion and Pearl Harbor (chapter 7 of WW2)
- Atlas
- The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945
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- Road to WW2 · Chinese Revolution
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