Overpopulation In China In The 1930's

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Due to overpopulation, the Chinese government decided that the only way to solve their economic problems was to acquire more land. Over the course of the 1930's, the Japanese invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria. The Japanese encountered exclamations of disapproval, and plots to lower Japan's economy from the government of United States of

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