Soviet-Japanese War

The Soviet-Japanese War was a conflict between the Empire of Japan and its client states against the Soviet Union from 1942 to 1943 which took place in eastern Siberia.
The Japanese, who were stalling in the war against both the Chinese and Americans, hoped to open a new front against the weak and collapsing Soviet Union in order to raise morale and take advantage of their resources. With much of their resources tied up in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War, the Japanese relied more on their Russian allies who inhabited Manchukuo.
The war was a success as the chaos caused by the German-Soviet War brought many Russians to the side of the Japanese-supported fascists who made their capital Blagoveshchensk. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast was also conquered and Japan created the State of Zion as an area to settle the growing Jewish population within their empire. Despite this success, the Japanese were unable to conquer Mongolia through Mengjiang or cross the Amur and Amgun rivers where the Soviet Pacific Fleet remnants declared the Socialist Soviet Republic of the Pacific.
Category:Conflicts
Category:Conflicts involving Japan
Category:Conflicts involving Amur
Category:Conflicts involving Transbaikal
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