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==Khalkhin Gol==

==Khalkhin Gol==

[[Image:Nomonhan.JPG|thumb|300px|right|Japan and the Soviet Union clash at Nomonhan and Changkufeng 12938-39.]]

[[Image:Nomonhan.JPG|thumb|300px|right|Japan and the Soviet Union clashes at Nomonhan and Changkufeng 1938-39.]]

In 1938, Soviet and Japanese fought many skirmishes across the common border their troops occupied along the Manchurian and Mongolian frontiers. Skirmishes, beginning in 1939, gradually grew into open warfare by May 1939 with Japanese forces based in [[Manchukuo]]. That summer a Japanese army invaded eastern Mongolia. Soviet General [[Georgi Zhukov]] commanded the Soviet-Mongolian army that met this invasion. In a battle at Khalkhin-Gol (also '''Khalkhyn Gol''') on 20 August, the Soviets threw the Japanese back across the Manchurian border. <ref>Jerrold and Leona Schecter, ''Sacred Secrets:  How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History'', Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2002, pg. 10.</ref>  The Japanese may have sustained as many as 80,000 casualties compared with 11,130 on the [[Comintern]] side. Hostilities ended on September 16, 1939. The Soviet Union and Japan signed a truce, and a commission was set up to define the Mongolian-Manchurian border. Although Japan did not invade again, it did mass large military forces along the Mongolian and the Soviet borders in the course of the war, while continuing its southward drive into China.  

In 1938, Soviet and Japanese fought many skirmishes across the common border their troops occupied along the Manchurian and Mongolian frontiers. Skirmishes, beginning in 1939, gradually grew into open warfare by May 1939 with Japanese forces based in [[Manchukuo]]. That summer a Japanese army invaded eastern Mongolia. Soviet General [[Georgi Zhukov]] commanded the Soviet-Mongolian army that met this invasion. In a battle at Khalkhin-Gol (also '''Khalkhyn Gol''') on 20 August, the Soviets threw the Japanese back across the Manchurian border. <ref>Jerrold and Leona Schecter, ''Sacred Secrets:  How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History'', Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2002, pg. 10.</ref>  The Japanese may have sustained as many as 80,000 casualties compared with 11,130 on the [[Comintern]] side. Hostilities ended on September 16, 1939. The Soviet Union and Japan signed a truce, and a commission was set up to define the Mongolian-Manchurian border. Although Japan did not invade again, it did mass large military forces along the Mongolian and the Soviet borders in the course of the war, while continuing its southward drive into China.