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| rdfs:comment | - Operation August Storm, or the Battle of Manchuria began on August 8, 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo; the greater invasion would eventually include neighboring Mengjiang, as well as northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. It marked the initial and only military action of the Soviet Union against the Empire of Japan; at the Yalta Conference, it had agreed to Allied pleas to terminate the neutrality pact with Japan and enter the Second World War's Pacific Theater within three months after the end of the war in Europe.
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| Strength | - 1000
- 1215
- 1800
- 1852
- 3704
- 5368
- 6700
- 26137
- 1040000
- 1577225
- Japan
- Soviet Union
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| Partof | - World War II and Soviet-Japanese Border Wars
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| Commander | - 22
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky
- Rodion Malinovsky
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| Caption | - Soviet SU-76M assault guns entering Changchun, the capital of Manchukuo.
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| Casualties | - 8219
- 20000
- 21000
- 22264
- 50000
- 83737
- 594000
- ? POWs
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| Result | - Decisive Soviet victory. This battle, along with the atomic bombings, led to the surrender of Japan.
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| Place | - Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Korea
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| abstract | - Operation August Storm, or the Battle of Manchuria began on August 8, 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo; the greater invasion would eventually include neighboring Mengjiang, as well as northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. It marked the initial and only military action of the Soviet Union against the Empire of Japan; at the Yalta Conference, it had agreed to Allied pleas to terminate the neutrality pact with Japan and enter the Second World War's Pacific Theater within three months after the end of the war in Europe. The invasion began on August 8, 1945, precisely three months after the German surrender on May 8. Notably, it began between the droppings of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9). Japan's decision to surrender was made before the scale of the Soviet attack on Manchuria, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands was known (See Downfall, pg 289), but had the war continued, the Soviets had plans to invade HokkaidÅ well before the other Allied invasion of Kyushu.
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