After the occupation of Manchuria in 1931, Japan turned its military interests to Soviet territories that bordered those areas. The first major Soviet-Japanese border incident, the Battle of Lake Khasan, happened in 1938 in Primorye. Clashes between Japanese and Soviet forces frequently occurred on the border of Manchuria.
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| - After the occupation of Manchuria in 1931, Japan turned its military interests to Soviet territories that bordered those areas. The first major Soviet-Japanese border incident, the Battle of Lake Khasan, happened in 1938 in Primorye. Clashes between Japanese and Soviet forces frequently occurred on the border of Manchuria.
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- 250(xsd:integer)
- 500(xsd:integer)
- 809(xsd:integer)
- 57000(xsd:integer)
- 75000(xsd:integer)
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| - the Soviet–Japanese Border Wars
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| Commander
| - Khorloogiin Choibalsan
- Georgy Zhukov
- Grigoriy Shtern
- Yakov Smushkevich
- Kōtoku Satō
- Michitarō Komatsubara
- Yasuoka Masaomi
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| Territory
| - Status quo ante: enforcement of border claims in accordance with Soviet interpretation
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| Caption
| - Khalkhyn Gol, August 1939. Offensive of Soviet BT-7 tanks
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| Casualties
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- 250(xsd:integer)
- 8766(xsd:integer)
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- : 274
- : 7,974 killed,
- : 8,440 killed,
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| Result
| - Soviet and Mongolian Victory; Japanese attack halted—ceasefire signed
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| - Mongolian People's Republic
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| Place
| - Khalkha River, Mongolian People's Republic
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| - After the occupation of Manchuria in 1931, Japan turned its military interests to Soviet territories that bordered those areas. The first major Soviet-Japanese border incident, the Battle of Lake Khasan, happened in 1938 in Primorye. Clashes between Japanese and Soviet forces frequently occurred on the border of Manchuria. In 1939, Manchuria was a puppet state of Japan, known as Manchukuo and Mongolia was a communist state allied with the Soviet Union, known as the Mongolian People's Republic. The Japanese maintained that the border between Manchukuo and Mongolia was the Khalkhyn Gol (English "Khalkha River") which flows into Lake Buir. In contrast, the Mongolians and their Soviet allies maintained that the border ran some east of the river, just east of Nomonhan village. The principal occupying army of Manchukuo was the Kwantung Army of Japan, consisting of some of the best Japanese units in 1939. However, the western region of Manchukuo was garrisoned by the newly formed IJA 23d Infantry Division at Hailar, under General Michitarō Komatsubara and included several Manchukuoan army and border guard units. The Soviet forces consisted of the 57th Special Corps, forward deployed from the Trans-Baikal Military District, responsible for defending the border between Siberia and Manchuria. The Mongolian troops mainly consisted of cavalry brigades and light artillery units, and proved to be effective and agile, but lacked armour and manpower in sufficient numbers. In 1939, the Japanese Cabinet sent instructions to the Kwantung Army to strengthen and fortify Manchukuo's borders with Mongolia and the Soviet Union. Additionally, the Kwantung Army, which had long been stationed in Manchuria far from the Japanese home islands, had become largely autonomous and tended to act without approval from, or even against the direction of, the Japanese government.
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