manchuria

Some historians see the Russian declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria as being equally or more significant [1].

Still, while there _might be_ a war with Germany, there _was_ a war with Japan in Manchuria in 1939.

If the US had invaded Manchuria while Stalin was still busy with Europe, the Chinese civil war might have panned out differently.

The imminent Soviet invasion of Manchuria surely played a role in the U.

We (Heap) would use Manchuria if you were to open source it.

It's also noteworthy that the Japanese troops in Manchuria were, from most accounts I've seen, their most veteran land-based army.

The best of the Kwangtung army stationed in Manchuria was already shifted to Kyushu and the southern islands of Japan to prepare for the possible US invasion.

For all of Europe (Nazi Germany) for all of Eurasia (Soviet Russia/Stalin), Manchuria (Japan), Rwanda, Mao's Cultural Revolution, North Korea, Burma...

There's a man, loses his cat, loses his wife, loses his job, and then there's something magical that is somehow related to the Manchuria war.

The speed at which the Soviets defeated the Japanese in Manchuria is what motivated the USans to drop the atomic bomb, to end the war quickly and keep the Soviets out of a post war Japan.

They seized all the B-29s that were forced to land on their territory (was later copied as the Tupolev Tu-4); while this was consistent with their need to maintain their neutrality towards Japan after some engagements in Manchuria (where they owned the Japanese, but they really needed those troops; Georgy Zhukov earned his spurs and vital experience there), holding the crews was not, I think.

It took the "twin shocks" (both the atomic bomb and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria) to convince Japan to surrender.

The only Murakami novel that has the author lose a cat, his wife and encounter "something magical that is somehow related to the Manchuria war" is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

The Soviet invasion [of Manchuria] was strategically decisive -- it foreclosed both of Japan's options -- while the bombing of Hiroshima (which foreclosed neither) was not." Again, that's not "speculative" or "pseudo-historical" writing.

The very next day, after learning that the Soviet Union had invaded Manchuria, the Supreme Council met and began discussing unconditional surrender." Any formulation that takes a few isolated facts and makes a narrative out of them is an oversimplification, of course.

The question is whether they surrendered specifically out of fear of nuclear weapons, or weather it was because the Soviets invaded Manchuria.

- Japanese relinquishment of all territory seized during the war, as well as Manchuria, Korea and Taiwan.

[Japanese] relinquishment of Manchuria, Korea and Formosa, as well as all territory seized during the war.