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    Use "manchuria" in a sentence

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    manchuria


    1. He could be in the hills of Manchuria right now, isolated in some village, perhaps injured and unable to communicate with the outside world


    2. New “conflicts of interest” with Russia over Korea and Manchuria led to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5, which went badly for Russia


    3. Korea was annexed in 1910 and Japan’s influence in Manchuria grew to the point of


    4. Jurchen—a Tungus-speaking tribe (Jurchids) that originated in the forests and mountains of eastern Manchuria


    5. “How could you say that you destroyed our army? We have over three million soldiers in China, Manchuria, Burma and the rest of Asia and the Pacific


    6. Doctor Ishi, the head of your biological warfare program, had it proudly displayed in his office in Manchuria


    7. of railway track in Manchuria on 18 September 1931, which they promptly


    8. Since the communists in China, supported by the Soviets, were about to push the nationalists out and since the Soviets themselves were grabbing large chunks of Manchuria, our government then decided to put a stop to communist expansion in Asia


    9. Renfeng also gave them access to the few reports he had about American prisoners held in Manchuria


    10. ‘’I can understand that your Marines have no love for the Chinese, Colonel,’’ cautioned Ingrid, ‘’but I wouldn’t mind if you are able as well to take prisoner some of the Chinese interrogators you may find in Manchuria

    11. As for the air assault on the prisoners camp in Manchuria, while the potential risks had been enormous, the actual operation had proved surprisingly easy, with no effective ground resistance left after the initial supporting airstrikes


    12. The raid in Manchuria, while incredibly risky, was in my opinion a masterpiece and, apart from freeing hundreds of our soldiers from communist captivity, has demonstrated once again the hypocrisy of the Soviet Union in all this


    13. Korean Peninsula, to Japan as well, but that conflicted with Russia’s interests in Manchuria


    14. Manchuria was added to Japan’s growing empire in 1931


    15. The British ships that launched those missiles then moved within range of Mukden, the Japanese stronghold in Manchuria, and of the main Pacific base of Truk, destroying them as well


    16. Tong Yee’s family came from Manchuria


    17. By cutting off Japan’s oil supply: Roosevelt had already secretly declared economic warfare on the Japanese Empire just at the time Japan desperately needed oil to continue its invasion of Manchuria and its attempt to conquer all of China


    18. Japan was merely clearing its eastern side making it safe to concentrate on the rape of Manchuria and China


    19. The rape of Manchuria: the rape of man by monkeys: monkeys raping each other and killing each other


    20. In one, he had fled across the China Sea and disappeared in Manchuria

    21. The war was about who was going to control Manchuria and Korea


    22. The Japanese took advantage of China’s weakness and invaded the province of Manchuria in 1931


    23. A good case can be made for saying that the Second World War started when the Japanese invaded the autonomous Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931


    24. The Japanese had long had their eyes on Manchuria, but they needed an excuse before they could launch an invasion


    25. Japan ran the main railway through Manchuria, so in September 1931 Japanese agents blew it up at the junction at Mukden and then said the Chinese did it! ‘Blow up our railway, would you?’ said the Japanese government to an understandably nonplussed Chinese government, and immediately sent troops into Manchuria to, er, restore order


    26. It was very naughty of the Japanese to invade, but as ownership of Manchuria seems unclear, perhaps they should set it up as a separate state and sort it all out over a nice cup of tea


    27. Getting hold of Manchuria had proved so easy that in 1937 the Japanese came back for more


    28. The question was: Should they head north into China or south into the Pacific? At first the ‘head north’ brigade won: The Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931 and the rest of China in 1937


    29. In fact, strictly speaking, the Second World War began in Asia, when the Japanese invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931 and the rest of China six years later


    30. At that time it became known, that in Russia several influential governmental persons had begun to zealously urge the government to send the Dukhobors to Manchuria for the Russification of those Chinese borders adjacent to Russia

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    "manchuria" definitions

    a region in northeastern China