The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident" id="mwnw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Marco Polo Bridge Incident">Marco Polo Bridge Incident</a> (Lugou Bridge) provides the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" id="mwoA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Imperial Japanese Army</a> with a pretext for starting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War" id="mwoQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Second Sino-Japanese War">Second Sino-Japanese War</a> (China-Japan War).