Outcome of Khalkhin Gol for Japan

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Re: Outcome of Khalkhin Gol for Japan

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Post by BobTheBarbarian » 01 Dec 2016, 18:45

It should also be noted that the first major Japanese-Soviet clash of the late '30s, Khasan, wasn't a military defeat at all but a stalemate that was resolved with political concessions on the Japanese side. In both the Battles of Lake Khasan and Khalkhin Gol Soviet losses were much higher than those of the Japanese despite several key advantages they possessed in both.
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Re: Outcome of Khalkhin Gol for Japan

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Post by antfreire » 02 Dec 2016, 18:08

BobTheBarbarian wrote:
Takao wrote: Not exactly...The Imperial Japanese Army saw as their main opponents the Soviets. The Imperial Japanese Navy saw as their main opponent the United States.
As soon as the United States put an embargo on Japan's oil supply any attack against the USSR was immediately out of the question. Prior to that, despite the growing tensions in the south the Japanese Army in Manchuria had been building up at a steady rate with the objective of achieving a readiness stance for a potential strike into Siberia. Confronted by a choice between opportunism and national survival the Japanese command chose the obvious path.

Were it not for their economic troubles with the US there was a high probability that Japan would have attacked the Soviet Union in the latter half of 1941.
(quote) That is exactly what FDR did not want to happen. An attack of Japanese forces in the East would mean a war in two fronts for Stalin that he would lose, and a close to FDR chances of entering the war as the good guy.


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