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The 12 pages that link to Marco Polo Bridge Incident, each with the reason it gives.

• Second Sino-Japanese WarBroader topic: The incident marked the immediate outbreak of the war in 1937.

• Japanese invasion of ManchuriaRelated: It marked the escalation from Japan’s earlier territorial expansion to wider war.

• Nanjing MassacreRelated: Its escalation brought Japanese forces into the campaign that reached Nanjing.

• Second United FrontRelated: The outbreak of general war made a united front urgent.

• Battle of ShanghaiRelated: The outbreak of war elsewhere prompted Chinese leaders to open a major front at Shanghai.

• Xi'an IncidentRelated: It marked the outbreak of the wider war the Xi'an agreement had sought to prepare for.

• Zhang XueliangRelated: The full invasion Zhang had pressed Chiang to resist followed months after the Xi’an settlement.

• Battle of WuhanNarrower topic: It began the war in which Wuhan became a major Japanese objective.

• Japanese occupation of ChinaRelated: It triggered the expansion from regional occupation to a nationwide war.

• Century of HumiliationBroader topic: It began the major Japanese invasion that devastated China.

• Tanggu TruceCompared with: It marks the breakdown of the temporary restraint established in 1933.

• Saionji KinmochiRelated: The widening conflict followed the political breakdown Saionji had tried to resist.