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| 1933, Feb. 24 |
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| Approving the Lytton Commission report, the League of Nations assembly adopted the Stimson formula on nonrecognition, and indicated that Japanese military pressure should cease. The League debated the issue and ultimately accepted the Lytton report, condemning Japan's claims that the establishment of Manzhouguo was a grassroots independence movement. Japan announced its withdrawal from the League (May 27). | 1 |
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| Jan.–Feb |
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| Japanese forces fought into Rehe, occupying the region and controlling access south of the Great Wall at the Shanhaiguan pass (April). | 2 |
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| May 31 |
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| This necessitated the Tanggu Truce, forced upon the Chinese, by which Chinese troops were to be evacuated from the Tianjin area of Hebei province. | 3 |
| After two unsuccessful GMD campaigns (1931, 1932) at “bandit suppression,” that is, to dislodge and destroy the Communists in the Jiangxi Soviet, a third campaign (July–Oct. 1932) proved moderately more successful. New roads, airfields, and blockhouses were constructed for the fourth (1933) and fifth (1934) campaigns, the last of these in an effort additionally to strangle the Jiangxi Soviet economically. Jiang Jieshi was assisted by Reichswehr Gen. Han von Seeckt (1866–1936), who arrived in China in May 1933 on leave from Nazi Germany. | 4 |
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