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Fair warning was issued to the Japanese in the form of the “Potsdam Declaration” of July 1945, which demanded the “unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces”. As the Declaration bluntly put it, “the alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction”.
While the Counsel Hardliners vehemently opposed surrender in any capacity, Foreign Affairs Minister Shigenori Tōgō instructed Naotake Satō, Japan's ambassador to the Soviet Union, to solicit Soviet support in mediating a peace conference between the Allied Powers and Japan.
- The Neutrality Pact
- Pearl Harbor
- The Importance of The Soviet Union
- The Tehran and Yalta Conferences
- The Potsdam Declaration
The Soviet Union had an interest in the Far East long before the Second World War. By the 1930s, Stalin’s Soviet Union and Imperial Japan both viewed themselves as rising powers with ambitions to expand their territorial holdings. In addition to a strategic rivalry dating back to the 19th century, they now nursed an ideological enmity born of the B...
After the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attack on Pearl Harbor, American policy makers tried to persuade the Soviet Union to join them in the fight against Japan. Cordell Hull, the American Secretary of State, met with the Soviet Ambassador, Maxim Litvinov, a few days after the Pearl Harbor incident. According to reliable sources, he said, ‘Ja...
The British Joint Planning Staff (JPS) realised that sooner or later Japan would seek to remove the danger of the Soviet Union at the first opportunity. The JPS estimated that an attack by the Japanese on the Soviet Maritime Provinces would be a grave danger to Soviet efforts against Germany in Europe. The JPS therefore drew up a plan. This ‘Apprec...
After the Germans were defeated at the battle of Stalingrad at the beginning of 1943, Stalin began to build up Soviet forces in North East China. In November of the same year, Stalin showed signs of willingness to participate in the war against Japan, by verbally agreeing, at the Tehran Conference, that the moment Germany collapsed, the Soviet woul...
The Potsdam Conference, which met from 17 July to 2 August 1945, was held in very different circumstances. Germany had been defeated, the Japanese Imperial Army had started crumbling and the United States had acquired the Atom bomb. The cooperation of the Soviet Union was no longer needed. On 26 July, Churchill, Truman and Chiang Kai-shek issued th...
World War II officially ended in Asia on September 2, 1945, with the surrender of Japan on the USS Missouri. Before that, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, and the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, causing Emperor Hirohito to announce the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration on August 15, 1945, which would eventually lead ...
Sep 1, 2015 · On September 2, 1945, the Japanese government signed a surrender agreement, which was received by US Army General Douglass MacArthur on board the USS Missouri, effectively ending the second world...
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Jun 30, 2023 · On July 7, 1937, Imperial Japanese forces clashed with forces of the Republic of China in the area of Beijing, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War. While it is less common, this date is...
Sep 1, 2020 · Once the war in Europe was over, the Allies could turn all their attention to fighting in the far east. Here, as in Europe, the war ended in stages. In the Pacific, the war turned in America’s favour in June 1942, when the US Navy defeated the Japanese at the battle of Midway.
