Video: 'The Marco Polo Bridge Incident'

(Wednesday, July 7, 1937, 11:00 p.m. local time) — The Second Sino-Japanese War, a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, erupted into full-scale conflict tonight as Imperial Japanese forces attacked the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing.

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