After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, Chiang resigned as Chairman of the National Government.

In Greek legend, for instance, it was Poseidon ( god of the sea ) who raised the storms which blew Odysseus ' craft off course on his return journey, and Japanese tradition holds that a god-sent wind saved them from Mongol invasion.

As World War II loomed after 1938, with the Japanese invasion of China and the aggressions of Nazi Germany, FDR gave strong diplomatic and financial support to China and the United Kingdom, while remaining officially neutral.

* 1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3, 000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30, 000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.

During World War II a Japanese invasion force landed at Reo on 14 May 1942 and occupied Flores.

Meanwhile, Japanese forces try to stop Battra's invasion, but fails as Battra invades Japan and headed for Nagoya.

In response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, he and Secretary of State Henry Stimson outlined the Hoover – Stimson Doctrine which held that the United States would not recognize territories gained by force.

Japanese invasion during World War II ended British domination in Malaysia.

The Blue Lotus, for example, was inspired by the Mukden incident that resulted in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

On 1 January 1942 he was knighted and appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and in February, after the Japanese invasion of Burma, was sent to India to become GOC-in-C of British Forces in Burma as a full general.

The 400 Million ( 1939 ) depicted the history of modern China and the resistance to the Japanese invasion, including dramatic shots of the Battle of Taierzhuang.

Moreover, the pact erased the legal distinction between war and peace since the signatories, having renounced the use of war began to wage wars without declaring them as evidenced by the U. S. intervention in Central America, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, and the German and Soviet Union invasions of Poland.

In September 1931, a section of the railway was lightly damaged by the Japanese Kwantung Army as a pretext for an invasion of Manchuria.

Mao rose to power by commanding the Long March, forming a united front with Kuomintang ( KMT ) during the Second Sino-Japanese War to repel a Japanese invasion, and leading the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) to victory against Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang ( KMT ) in the Chinese Civil War.

In the 1940s, the detailed census results were destroyed during the Japanese invasion of 1942.

Hours after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces from the Marianas launched an invasion of Guam on December 8, 1941.

Between the end of the invasion and the Japanese surrender, the Saipan and Tinian populations were kept in internment camps.

It was administered under this mandate until the Japanese invasion in December 1941 brought about the suspension of Australian civil administration.

Having had their initial effort to capture Port Moresby by a seaborne invasion disrupted by the U. S. Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese attempted a landward invasion from the north via the Kokoda Trail.

Politics of this era consisted primarily of the political and military struggle between the KMT and the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) in between bouts of active resistance against Japanese invasion.

During the Nationalist's retreat from Nanjing, the dams around the city were deliberately destroyed by the Nationalist army in order to delay the Japanese advance, killing 500, 000 people in the subsequent 1938 Yellow River flood.

The philosophy and subsequent pedagogy developed for judo became the model for other modern Japanese martial arts that developed from.

The All Japan Kendo Federation ( AJKF or ZNKR ) was founded in 1952, immediately following the restoration of Japanese independence and the subsequent lift of the ban on martial arts in Japan.

Nikita Khrushchev's February 1956 speech " On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences ", and the subsequent Hungarian Revolution of 1956, confused the Communist Party of the USA, the Communist Party of Great Britain, and the Japanese Communist Party, none of whom were able to present a unified response.

With a massive economic crisis and subsequent mass panic, the Japanese hope that America will be too distracted to quickly respond to Japan's military actions.

However, during a subsequent meeting held at the offices of the AJC in New York City, leaders representing Japanese Americans and Jewish Americans reached an understanding about the use of the term.

Following the Mukden Incident in 1931 and the subsequent Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the Japanese declared Inner Manchuria an " independent state ", and appointed the deposed Qing emperor Puyi as puppet emperor of Manchukuo.

In subsequent years and during World War II the Japanese garrison strength was composed of about 2, 000 men of the IJN under Captain Jun Naito and 5, 984 IJA men under Lieutenant General Masao Watanabe.

Japan had sought to claim sovereignty over Taiwan ( known to them as Takasago Koku ) since 1592, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi undertook a policy of overseas expansion and extending Japanese influence southward, to the west, was invaded and an attempt to invade Taiwan and subsequent invasion attempts were to be unsuccessful due mainly to disease and attacks by aborigines on the island.

Japanese rule of Taiwan ended in 1945, following the armistice with the allies on September 2 and the subsequent appropriation of the island by Chinese Nationalist Party ( Kuomintang, or KMT ) on October 25.

This did nothing to help the morale of the defenders, many of whom were killed during the defense of the city and subsequent Japanese occupation.

However, it is not accurate to attribute China's subsequent age of warlordism as a personal preference, since in his career as a military reformer he had attempted to forge a modern army based on the Japanese model.

LeMay commanded subsequent B-29 Superfortress combat operations against Japan, including massive incendiary attacks on 64 Japanese cities.

The ROC would then claim sovereignty on the basis of the Qing dynasty's administration, Cairo Declaration, Potsdam Declaration, and Japanese Instrument of Surrender, but this became contested by pro-independence groups in subsequent years due to different perceptions of the said documents ' legality.

Just as significantly for the subsequent revolution, the Japanese destroyed and replaced much of the Dutch-created economic, administrative, and political infrastructure.

He wrote that the Japanese government should have surrendered as soon as losing the war was inevitable, an action that would have prevented Tokyo from being firebombed in March 1945, as well as subsequent bombings of other cities.

Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent entry of the United States into World War II, the U. S. House of Representatives held hearings on the legality of wiretapping for national defense.

Pearl Harbor is a dramatic reimagining of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Doolittle Raid.

Local and Federal treatment of Japanese immigrants and local born Japanese Americans in Florin took a drastic downturn upon the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent war between the US and Japan.

In addition to Steady & Co., Furuya has also collaborated with other Japanese hip hop artists on the Mob Squad album and subsequent label.

In a subsequent best-selling book, The True Character of Kim Jong-il, Shigemura cited apparently unnamed people close to Kim's family along with Japanese and South Korean intelligence sources, claiming they confirmed Kim's diabetes took a turn for the worse early in 2000 and from then until his supposed death three and a half years later he was using a wheelchair.

On 12 December 1936, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Kuomintang was arrested by Marshal Zhang Xueliang, a former warlord of Manchuria, and Commander of the North Eastern Army who had fought against the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and subsequent expansion into Inner Mongolia by the Japanese and troops of the puppet state of Manchukuo that had been created in Manchuria.