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Campaigns of the Second Sino-Japanese War

  • Soviet invasion of ManchuriaAt 5 p.m. Moscow time on the 8th of August 1945, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov informed Japanese ambassador Naotake Satō that the Soviet Union…
  • Soviet–Japanese WarAt the Tehran Conference in November 1943, Joseph Stalin agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan once Germany was defeated.
  • Japanese invasion of French IndochinaJapan moved troops into southern Guangxi and Longzhou County in early 1940. Their goal was to seize the eastern branch of the Kunming, Hai Phong Railway at…
  • Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaignOn the 18th of April 1942, sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers took off from the aircraft carrier Hornet. They flew toward Tokyo, Nagoya, and Yokohama to drop…
  • Operation Ichi-GoEmperor Hirohito approved the offensive on the 24th of January 1944. The Imperial General Staff sought to secure an overland rail route through French…