Great Wall War

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The Great Wall War was a 1933 military conflict between the Republic of China and Imperial Japan fought along the Great Wall region of northern China, marking a key early stage of Japanese expansion before the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Great Wall Campaign 1
Great Wall War canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf military conflict
war
alsoKnownAs Defense of the Great Wall
Great Wall War
surface form: Great Wall Campaign
belligerent Japan
surface form: Empire of Japan

Republic of China
conflictBetween Imperial Japan
surface form: Empire of Japan

Republic of China
conflictType border war
campaign along the Great Wall
consequence demilitarized zone in Hebei region
increased Japanese control over northern China
followedBy Tanggu Truce
escalation of Japanese expansion in North China
hasParticipant Imperial Japanese Army
Manchukuo Imperial Army
surface form: Manchukuo forces

National Revolutionary Army
historicalContext Japanese imperial expansion in East Asia
Republic of China–Japan relations in the early 1930s
locatedAlong Great Wall of China
locatedIn northern China
mainTheater Great Wall region
Hebei
surface form: Hebei Province

Rehe (Jehol) region
opponent Republic of China Armed Forces
surface form: Chinese forces of the Republic of China

Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan
surface form: Japanese forces of the Empire of Japan
partOf Japanese occupation of Manchuria
surface form: Japanese invasion of Manchuria and northern China

Sino-Japanese conflicts of the 1930s
prelude to the Second Sino-Japanese War
precededBy Japanese occupation of Manchuria
surface form: Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Mukden Incident
result Chinese withdrawal from parts of northern China
Japanese tactical victory
significance early stage of Japanese expansion before the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War
startTime 1933
temporalLocation interwar period

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Defense of the Great Wall alsoKnownAs Great Wall War
Great Wall War alsoKnownAs Great Wall War
this entity surface form: Great Wall Campaign