The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.

Mengjiang

Imperial Japanese puppet state in northern China from 1939 to 1945

Mengjiang, also known as Mengkiang, officially the Mengjiang United Autonomous Government, was an autonomous zone in Inner Mongolia, formed in 1939 as a puppet state of the Empire of Japan, then from 1940 being under the nominal sovereignty of the Reorganized National Government…