The September 18th Incident was a war of aggression against China deliberately created and launched by Japan. It was the beginning of Japanese imperialism's attempt to conquer China by force, the starting point of China and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the beginning of China's local war of resistance, and the prelude of the Eastern battlefield of the Second World War. After the September 18th Incident, China people's local war of resistance also marked the starting point of the world anti-fascist war.
1931September 18 night, the Japanese kwantung army, entrenched in the northeast of China, bombed the Japanese South Manchuria railway track built by the railway garrison near Shenyang Liutiao Lake, and blamed it on the China army. Using this as an excuse, the Japanese army shelled the North Camp of the Northeast Army in China, creating the September 18th Incident that shocked China and foreign countries.
The next day, the Japanese army invaded Shenyang and successively invaded the three northeastern provinces. 1February 932, the whole northeast fell. Japan established the puppet regime of Manchukuo in the northeast of China, and began to enslave and colonize the people in the northeast for 14 years, which made more than 30 million compatriots in the northeast suffer from conquered people.
The influence of the September 18th Incident:
1, the prelude to World War II: The September 18th Incident in northeastern China in the early 1930s shocked China and foreign countries. It was not only the beginning of Japanese imperialism's attempt to conquer China by force, but also the first war of aggression ignited by fascist countries in the world. Its outbreak marked the prologue of World War II and the beginning of the world anti-fascist war.
2. Transformation of social nature: Mao Zedong pointed out that China has become a colonial, semi-colonial and semi-feudal society since the September 18th Incident when Japanese imperialism invaded China in193/. After the September 18th Incident, China's social nature and principal contradiction changed constantly, and the principal contradiction between China and Japan was not resolved until 1945 when Japan was defeated and surrendered.
3. National Unity and Anti-Japanese: The September 18th Incident promptly sounded the alarm to the people of the whole country, and the broad masses of people and people from all walks of life actively participated in the anti-Japanese and national salvation movement in various forms. After the September 18th Incident, with the unprecedented awakening of the Chinese nation, national unity has been strengthened day by day, and the sense of national mission of the two parties has been rapidly enhanced, which has effectively promoted the re-cooperation between the two parties, realized national unity, and emerged a new situation of resisting Japanese imperialist aggression.