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This Soviet–Japanese War led to the fall of Japan's Manchurian occupation, Soviet occupation of South Sakhalin island, and a real, imminent threat of Soviet invasion of the home islands of Japan. This was a significant factor for some internal parties in the Japanese decision to surrender to the US [ 29 ] and gain some protection, rather than ...
List of Japanese operations during World War II Operation Year Description Operation FU: 1940: invasion of French Indo-China Operation AI: 1941: attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States Operation DE: 1941: invasion of Dutch East Indies Operation T: 1941: invasion of Thailand Operation E: 1941: invasion of China and Northeast British Malaya ...
The extent of Japanese control of China as of 1940. 2 July Hitler orders preparation of plans for invasion of Britain, code-named Operation Sea Lion. Alderney surrenders to the Germans. Brighton beach is closed to the public and mines, barbed wire and other defences are put into place. 3 July Cardiff is bombed by the Luftwaffe for the first time.
On 30 August 1940, the Japanese foreign minister, Yōsuke Matsuoka, approved a draft proposal submitted by his French colleague, Paul Baudouin, [a] whereby Japanese forces could be stationed in and transit through Indochina only for the duration of the Sino-Japanese War. Both governments then "instructed their military representatives in ...
This is a timeline of Japanese history, ... 2nd Mongol invasion in Japan repulsed in the Battle of Kōan: 1293: ... 1940: 16 March to 3 April ...
Other events of 1940 History of Japan • Timeline • Years: Events in the year 1940 in Japan. ... Japanese invasion of French Indochina;
The Japanese invasion of Burma was the opening phase of the Burma campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II, ... In late 1940 Aung San, ...
In July 1940, the U.S. banned the shipment of aviation gasoline to Japan, while Imperial Japanese Army invaded French Indochina and occupied its naval and air bases in September 1940. In April 1941, the Empire of Japan and the Soviet Union signed a neutrality pact and Japan increased pressure on the Vichy French and Dutch colonies in Southeast ...