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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.
6 sie 2010 · On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union officially declares war on Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers the following day into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to...
Unknown to the Americans, the Soviet Union also considered invading a major Japanese island, Hokkaido, by the end of August 1945, [80] which would have put pressure on the Allies to act sooner than November.
On 8 August the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan at midnight. Soviet forces invaded the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (Manchuria) under the command of Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky with 1.6 million soldiers.
In late 1945, the Soviet Union launched a series of successful invasions of northern Japanese territories, in preparation for the possible invasion of Hokkaido: Invasion of South Sakhalin (11—25 August)
2 wrz 2020 · Note dates: Stalin promises at Yalta to attack Japan 3 months after end of WW2 in Europe, which turns out to be August 8, 1945, two days AFTER Hiroshima, when USSR declared war on Japan....
On July 12, 1945, Foreign Minister Togo instructed the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union to inform Molotov that the Emperor wanted the war ended immediately and wished to send Prince Konoye to Moscow as a special envoy.
