After the Japanese occupied the city of Shenyang (formerly Mukden in the [[Manchu]] language) in an event known as the [[Mukden Incident]] on Sept. 18, 1931, extending Japanese control over large areas in northeastern China, the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) fought alongside Japanese invaders to defeat troops of the [[Republic of China]] (KMT).
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Between 1931 and 1945 the [[Republic of China]] was engaged at the same time in two separate wars. One was with Japan and the other with the [[Comintern]]. The Soviet Union fought the Republic of China with an army of [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese revolutionaries]], the CCP, directed and armed by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's ambitions in China were to transform all northern China — [[Xinjiang]], [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]] — into Soviet dependencies and to convert what remained of China into a Communist satellite state.
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After the Japanese occupied the city of Shenyang (formerly Mukden in the [[Manchu]] language) in an event known as the [[Mukden Incident]] on Sept. 18, 1931, extending Japanese control over large areas in northeastern China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fought alongside Japanese invaders to defeat troops of the Republic of China (KMT).