Japan had been antagonizing the Chinese by executing rigorous military operations near the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing. One night, a small troop of Japanese soldiers demanded to enter a tiny walled town. The Chinese refused. A shot rang out and a Japanese soldier was killed. A full-scale war between Japan and China would soon follow.
One of the greatest atrocities committed by Japan was after the fall of the city of Nanking. The Japanese Imperial Army raped and murdered more than 10,000 Chinese.
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The conflict, fought between June and October 1877, stemmed from the refusal of several bands of the Nez Perce, dubbed "non-treaty Indians," to give up their ancestral lands in the Pacific Northwest and move to an Indian reservation in Idaho.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He married his cousin, was the United States President who pulled the United States out of the great depression and also, was the President, "Commander and Chief", during World War II. He also had polio which lead to him being in a wheel chair during most of his presidency. He is also the ONLY President to serve more than four terms in office. Also he gave his famous, "Infamy" speech which called on congress to declare war on the AXIS powers, two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941.
