Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:military_operation
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria
gptkbp:casualties Japanese: ~80,000 killed
Soviet: ~12,000 killed
gptkbp:combatant gptkb:Empire_of_Japan
gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkb:Mongolian_People's_Republic
gptkb:Manchukuo
gptkbp:commander gptkb:Aleksandr_Vasilevsky
gptkb:Otozō_Yamada
gptkbp:commandStructure gptkb:1st_Far_Eastern_Front
gptkb:2nd_Far_Eastern_Front
gptkb:Transbaikal_Front
gptkb:Soviet_Far_East_Command
gptkbp:dateOfSovietDeclarationOfWar 1945-08-08
gptkbp:endDate 1945-09-02
gptkbp:followedBy Soviet occupation of North Korea
gptkbp:heldPrisonersFrom Japanese: ~600,000
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation
gptkbp:involvedIn gptkb:Kwantung_Army
gptkb:Soviet_Red_Army
gptkb:Mongolian_Cavalry
gptkbp:location gptkb:Korea
gptkb:Kuril_Islands
gptkb:Manchuria
gptkb:Sakhalin
gptkb:Inner_Mongolia
gptkbp:objective Defeat Japanese Kwantung Army
Occupy Manchuria
Support Allied war aims in Asia
gptkbp:operator strategic offensive
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Yalta_Conference
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
gptkb:Soviet–Japanese_War
gptkb:End_of_World_War_II
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Chinese_Communist_Party
gptkb:Kuomintang
gptkbp:result Soviet victory
Accelerated Japanese surrender
Collapse of Manchukuo
Occupation of Manchuria by Soviet forces
gptkbp:significance Contributed to the end of World War II in Asia
Facilitated the Chinese Civil War
Led to Soviet occupation of Manchuria
gptkbp:startDate 1945-08-09
gptkbp:treaty Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact (broken)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Soviet
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5