the marco polo bridge incident and causes
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident, also known as the Lugouqiao (Lugou Bridge) Incident (ç§æºæ©äºè®) or the July 7 Incident (ä¸ä¸äºè®), was a battle between the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army, often used as the marker for the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937â1945).lthough the Kuomintang (KMT) government of China refused to recognize Manchukuo, a truce between Japan and Republican China had been negotiated in 1931. However, at the end of 1932 the Japanese Army invaded Rehe Province (Jehol Province). This was annexed into Manchukuo in 1933.
The conflict is referred to in China as the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) and the Anti-Fascist War. Japanâs expansionist policy of the 1930s, driven by the military, was to set up what it called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Marco Polo Bridge, Beijing.A sphere.e are marking the anniversary of Germany and Japanâs surrender in 1945, but it is legitimate to suggest that the incident that sparked the conflict that became WWII occurred not in Poland in 1939 but in China, near this eleven-arched bridge on the outskirts of Beijing, in July 1937. Letâs look at the undisputed facts.