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    Soviet invasion of Japanese-occupied territory following the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 7 August 1945. The Soviet Union and Mongolian...
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    The SovietJapanese border conflicts, also known as the Soviet-Japanese Border War, the First Soviet-Japanese War, the Russo-Mongolian-Japanese Border...
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    After World War II there were from 560,000 to 760,000 Japanese personnel in the Soviet Union and Mongolia interned to work in labor camps as POWs. Of them...
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    The SovietJapanese Neutrality Pact (日ソ中立条約, Nisso Chūritsu Jōyaku), also known as the JapaneseSoviet Non-aggression Pact (日ソ不可侵条約, Nisso Fukashin Jōyaku)...
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    the defeat of the Japanese Sixth Army. After the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931, Japan turned its military interests to Soviet territories that...
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  • since the First Sino-Japanese and the Russo-Japanese War, before World War I through the colonisation of Taiwan and Korea. In 1931, Japan invaded and conquered...
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    August 1945 with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. It was the largest campaign of the 1945 SovietJapanese War, which resumed hostilities...
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    invasion was part of the SovietJapanese War, a minor campaign in the Asian Theatre during Second World War. Following the Japanese invasion of Sakhalin in...
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    of the war, including the vast Pacific Ocean theater, the South West Pacific theater, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the SovietJapanese War. The Second...
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    Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland. It encompassed...
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    Second Sino-Japanese War was the war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945 as part of World War II. It is often...
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    During the SovietJapanese War in August 1945, the Soviet Union made plans to invade Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's four main home islands. Opposition...
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    the Imperial Japanese Army for an invasion and occupation of the Russian Far East, capitalizing on the outbreak of the Soviet–German War in June 1941...
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    The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak...
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  • Soviet-Japanese War may refer to: SovietJapanese border conflicts (1938–39) Battle of Lake Khasan (1938) Battles of Khalkhin Gol (1939) Soviet–Japanese...
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    engagement with the Japanese to give them the impression they might be willing to mediate, the Soviets were covertly preparing to attack Japanese forces in Manchuria...
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    The Russo-Japanese War (Japanese: 日露戦争, romanized: Nichiro sensō, lit. 'Japanese-Russian War'; Russian: русско-японская война, romanized: russko-yaponskaya...
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    First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895) or the First China–Japan War was a conflict between the Qing dynasty and Empire of Japan primarily...
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    This is a list of wars involving the Soviet Union (30 December 1922 – 26 December 1991). The only party under Francisco Franco from 1937 onward, a merger...
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    the Japanese officers to stop the rapes. The Japanese were told by the Russians that they had to give their women for rape as war spoils. Soviet soldiers...
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    Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, SovietJapanese border conflicts, and tensions in the aftermath of World War I. World War II is generally...
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    Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II....
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  • the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, desiring to meet the wishes of Japan and taking into consideration the interests of the Japanese State, agrees...
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    Chinese and Japanese troops quickly escalated into the full-scale warfare of the Second Sino-Japanese War, followed by the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars and the...
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  • campaign (October – November 1936) Soviet-Japanese Border War (May 11 – September 16, 1939) Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – December 7, 1941)...
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    prior to the end of World War II in Asia in August 1945. Also, Soviet troops seized and imprisoned more than half a million Japanese troops and civilians in...
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    to declare war on Japan; and on August 5, 1945, the Soviet Union voided their neutrality agreement with Japan. In 1941, the Imperial Japanese Army had 51...
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    Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war...
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    lasted until the SovietJapanese War of 1945 created a de facto division of Korea into Soviet and American zones. August 15, the day that Japan surrendered...
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    Sino-Soviet border conflict was a seven-month undeclared military conflict between the Soviet Union and China in 1969, following the Sino-Soviet split...
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