give me 5 events in that led to the sino japenese war and 2 during it in very short bullet points

Answer 1

Events leading to the Sino-Japanese War:
1. First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) over control of Korea.
2. Signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, which ceded Taiwan and the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan.
3. Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, resulting in the killing of foreign nationals and missionaries.
4. Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905, in which Japan's victory showed its growing military power.
5. Japanese expansion into Manchuria in the early 1930s, increasing tensions with China.

Events during the Sino-Japanese War:
1. Marco Polo Bridge Incident in July 1937, marking the official start of the war.
2. Nanjing Massacre in December 1937, where Japanese forces committed atrocities in the city of Nanjing.