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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.
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war .
The SU-76M was the second most produced Soviet AFV of World War II, after the T-34 medium tank. Developed under the leadership of chief designer S.A. Ginzburg (1900–1943). This infantry support SPG was based on the lengthened T-70 light tank chassis and armed with the ZIS-3 76-mm divisional field gun.
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942.
For a Greater Realm: The Royal Thai Army at War 1940-1945, Volume 1. Warwick: Helion & Company. ISBN 978-1804512098. Jayanama, Direk (2008). Thailand and World War II. Chiang Mai: Silk Worm Books. ISBN 978-9749511336. Jowett, Philip (2020). Japan's Asian Allies 1941–45. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1472836960
In the late 2000s, Russian influence in Vietnam has begun to grow again but remains far below that of Soviet times. On Saturday July 25, Vietnam and Russia signed a memorandum of understanding between their respective atomic energy agencies but no details were released. "Cooperation on atomic energy will be a priority", Lavrov said. [40]
Thailand entered World War II in October 1940, initially against Vichy French forces in the Franco-Thai War. But Japan intervened and forced the Thai government to align with Axis forces; relations with Japan remained tense until the end of the war. This page lists military equipment used during the Franco-Thai War, Malaya and Burma campaign as ...
The first recorded contact between Russians and Siam was on 19 February 1863, when the ships Gaydamak and Novik arrived at Bangkok. [1]Early relations between the countries were cordial, derived from friendly personal relations between King Chulalongkorn (Rama V, r. 1868–1910) of Siam and Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (r. 1894–1917), who had visited Siam in 1891 when he was tsarevich (heir ...