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( Soviet invasion of Manchuria)
Asia & The Pacific
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South&_160;West&_160;Pacific&_160;– Japan&_160;– Manchuria (1945)
The Soviet invasion of Manchuria or Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation (Russian ????????-???????? ?????), began on August 9, 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. The Soviets conquered Mengjiang, as well as northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. The operation is sometimes called Operation August Storm by English-language writers, after historian David Glantz used this title for a paper on the subject. At the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Union had agreed to Allied pleas to terminate its neutrality pact with Japan and enter World War II's Pacific Theater within three months after the end of the war in Europe. This offensive should not be confused with the Soviet-Japanese Border War that ended in Japan's defeat in 1939. The invasion began at dawn on August 9, 1945, precisely three months after the German surrender on May&_160;8 (May 9, 043 Moscow time). This fell between the atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9. However, it is clear that news of the attacks on the two cities played no role in the timing of the Soviet attack. Although Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had not been told much detail of the Western Allies' atomic bomb program by Allied governments, he was nonetheless well aware of its existence and purpose by means of Soviet intelligence sources.
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