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Mukden incident, an Uncommon card
The Mukden incident was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Mukden incident quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mukden incident card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ was so weak that it failed to destroy the track, and a train passed over it minutes later.
Answer
explosion. The explosion was so weak that it failed to destroy the track, and a train passed over it minutes later. From the Mukden incident article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The Mukden incident was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the ____ Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
Answer
1930s. The Mukden incident was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria. From the Mukden incident article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- On September 18, 1931, Lieutenant Suemori Kawamoto of the Independent Garrison Unit of the 29th Japanese Infantry Regiment detonated a small quantity of dynamite close to a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway near Mukden.
- The explosion was so weak that it failed to destroy the track, and a train passed over it minutes later.
- The Imperial Japanese Army accused Chinese dissidents of the act and responded with a full invasion that led to the occupation of Manchuria, in which Japan established its puppet state of Manchukuo five months later.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mukden incident article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Mukden incident
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mukden incident (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
