FEATURE / HISTORY - Soviet Invasion of Manchuria – Dave DeForest In August of 1945, in the last days of World War 2, the Soviet Union launched a massive invasion of Manchuria. VOA's Dave ...

The Northern Road group believed that Manchuria and Siberia should be the focus of Japan's imperial ambitions and that Russia, and later the Soviet Union, was Japan's greatest threat.

The Soviet invasion of Manchuria created a haven for Chinese communist forces, who had been fighting both the Japanese and Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists, aiding the communists’ eventual ...

Ever since Chinese authorities seized the Soviet-operated Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, July 22) and expelled Communist agents from Manchuria, Chinese and Russian soldiers have scowled at each ...

Armed only with pistols, five Americans infiltrate territory occupied by 30,000 Japanese troops in a race against the Russians. An article in The Wall Street Journal by Michael Meyer.

She argued that the entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan on Aug. 8, before the Nagasaki bombing the next day, was the “most critical military development in August 1945” and ...

In 1931, Japan seized Manchuria, a resource-rich region in Northeast Asia, and established a 3,000-mile disputed zone between its occupied territory and the Soviet Union.

RAILWAYS have been the chief means by which both Japan and Russia have striven to establish special positions in eastern Asia. The economic and strategic frontier of the Japanese sphere of influence ...