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[[File:Zhukov3.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Marshall Zhukov at the 1945 [[Victory Day]] parade in [[Red Square]].]]
[[File:Zhukov3.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Marshall Zhukov at the 1945 [[Victory Day]] parade in [[Red Square]].]]
'''Georgi Zhukov''' (1896-1974) was a military leader for the [[Soviet Union]] during [[World War II]] and afterwards. He was awarded the nation's highest honor, [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]. He is widely credited as one of the earliest and most successful proponents of manoeuver warfare.
'''Georgi Zhukov''' (1896-1974) was a military leader for the [[Soviet Union]] during [[World War II]] and afterwards. He was awarded the nation's highest honor, [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]. He is widely credited as one of the earliest and most successful proponents of manoeuver warfare.
==Battle of Khalkyn Gol==
[[Image:Nomonhan.JPG|thumb|200px|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.
Following the [[Battle of Khalkyn Gol]] in 1939 where his forces scored a decisive victory over the [[Japan]]ese, Zhukov was made a [[Hero of the Soviet Union]].
Following the [[Battle of Khalkyn Gol]] in 1939 where his forces scored a decisive victory over the [[Japan]]ese, Zhukov was made a [[Hero of the Soviet Union]].