The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact: A Diplomatic History 1941-1945Routledge, 1 mar 2004 - 252 pagine The neutrality pact between Japan and the Soviet Union, signed in April 1941, lapsed only nine months before its expiry date of April 1946 when the Soviet Union attacked Japan. Japan's neutrality had enabled Stalin to move Far Eastern forces to the German front where they contributed significantly to Soviet victories from Moscow to Berlin. Slavinsky suggests that Stalin's agreement with Churchill and Roosevelt to attack Japan after Germany's surrender allowed him to keep Japan in the war until he was ready to attack and thus avenge Russia's defeat in the war of 1904-1905. The Soviet Union's violation of the pact and the detention of Japanese prisoners for up to ten years after the end of the war created a sense of victimization in Japan to the extent that there is still no formal Peace Treaty between the two countries to this day. |
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Signature | 32 |
Germanys attack on the USSR and Japans position | 61 |
Japans Pearl Harbor attack and the Neutrality Pact | 74 |
The Neutrality Pact when Japan seemed to be winning | 85 |
The last year of the USSRs war with Germany | 128 |
The denunciation of the Neutrality Pact | 150 |
MayJuly 1945 | 163 |
The USSR joins the war against Japan | 176 |
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The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact: A Diplomatic History, 1941-1945 Boris Nikolaevich Slavinskiĭ Anteprima limitata - 2004 |
The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact: A Diplomatic History 1941-1945 Boris Slavinsky Anteprima non disponibile - 2003 |