Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sept. 18, 1931. Japanese troops, without warning, marched into Mukden, went on to conquer the Chinese province of Manchuria, set up the puppet state of Manchukuo. The Japanese Navy bombarded Shanghai; its Army moved in to kill some 100,000 Chinese...
March 30, 1940. Japan set up its Wang Ching-wei puppet Government at Nanking...
After the Russians were whipped. Japan seized Korea with her victorious army and told the world that Korea wished to become her protectorate. Korea was made a puppet like Manchukuo. Korea appealed to the powers who had treaty obligations with her to redress her grievances. Mute was their response. It was the beginning of tacitly appeasing the subtle aggressor. Finally, Japan again by force annexed Korea in 1910 and gracefully announced that the Emperor of Korea made complete and permanent cession to the Emperor of Japan of all rights of sovereignty over Korea and the Emperor of Japan consented...
...they have also so arranged it that the territory of one of these new puppet States includes the Republic of Panama and our great lifeline-the Panama Canal...
Warriors Forward. Gradually the military, and especially the Army extremists, made headway. In 1931 the Kwantung Army fomented the Manchurian Incident which led to the puppet state of Manchukuo. In 1936 the military got credit for the anti-Comintern Pact with Ger many. In 1937 the Army saved the Navy's disastrous Shanghai landing party. And for a while the Army's prestige skyrocketed with the China war, which later led to the longest stalemate in modern history...