What was the Manchurian Incident of 1932?
Actually it began in September of 1931 when a bomb ripped apart of section of railway owned & operated by the Japanese who had soldiers on hand to guard their interests in the region known as Manchuria. The Japanese used the incident as a pretext for stating the obvious, that the region was in a state of chaos and in need of a firm hand, and the Japanese were more than willing to provide the sort of solid authorative government then lacking in Manchuria and all of China. http://www.bartleby.com/65/ma/ManchuriI.… “””or Mukden Incident, 1931, confrontation that gave Japan the impetus to set up a puppet government in Manchuria. After the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5), Japan replaced Russia as the dominant foreign power in S Manchuria. By the late 1920s the Japanese feared that unification of China under the Kuomintang party would imperil Japanese interests in Manchuria. This view was confirmed when the Manchurian gene