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The Soviet–Japanese War [e] was a campaign of the Second World War that began with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria following the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 8 August 1945. The Soviet Union and Mongolian People's Republic toppled the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo in Manchuria and Mengjiang in Inner Mongolia , as well as ...
The entry of the Soviet Union in the war against Japan along with the atomic bombings by the United States led to Japan's surrender, marking the end of World War II. The Soviet Union suffered the greatest number of casualties in the war, losing more than 20 million citizens, about a third of all World War II casualties .
The invasion of Manchuria was a factor that contributed to the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II. In September 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) dispatched soldiers to Soviet-occupied Manchuria. [51]: 73 The CCP obtained Japanese arms with Soviet help.
Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, April 13, 1941. The Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact (日ソ中立条約, Nisso Chūritsu Jōyaku), also known as the Japanese–Soviet Non-aggression Pact (日ソ不可侵条約, Nisso Fukashin Jōyaku), was a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan signed on April 13, 1941, two years after the conclusion of the Soviet-Japanese ...
World War II officially ended in Asia on September 2, 1945, with the surrender of Japan on the USS Missouri.Before that, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, and the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, causing Emperor Hirohito to announce the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration on August 15, 1945, which would eventually lead to the surrender ceremony on September 2.
The Soviet declaration of war was a major factor for the surrender of Japan on 15 August. [2] [3] Although all other Allies, including the United States, ceased all hostilities upon the surrender, Stalin ordered his troops to continue fighting to capture more Japanese territory [4]: 28 and to put the Soviets in a stronger bargaining position to ...
End of World War II; Fall of the Empire of Japan; Continuation of the Chinese Civil War; Substantial weakening of European colonial powers and the gradual decolonization of Asia. First Indochina War; Indonesian National Revolution; Korean War; 1951 Treaty of San Francisco; 1956 Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration; Allied occupation of Japan ...
The strange neutrality: Soviet-Japanese relations during the Second World War, 1941-1945 (1972) Lensen, George A. Japanese Recognition of the U. S. S. R.: Soviet-Japanese Relations 1921-1930 (1970) May, Ernest R. "The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Far Eastern War, 1941–1945," Pacific Historical Review (1955) 24#2 pp. 153–174 in JSTOR