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.
Religious movement (they wrote their constitution.)
To force the Soviet Union to increase its military spending despite
having a weak economy
Explanation:
- In February 1983, the Joint Chiefs of Staff requested the then US President Ronald Reagan to give support, to pay more attention to US strategic plans in developing effective missile defense.
- The demands of the generals remained silent as Reagan presented his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) project to the public on March 23 that year, adding that the military component was being added to space exploration and use, which became popular with the public under the name " Star Wars.
- Regardless of the doubts expressed about the realization of the whole project on the creation of a new missile shield, in 1986, with the support of the Minister of Defense, President Reagan decided that after 6 months of research and study it was time to begin the process of procuring the first elements, the first phase of the system architecture of the future missile shield USA (Strategic Defense Initiative Phase I Architecture).
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