Starting in 1935, the cold war between Japan and the Soviet Union began to heat up dramatically. The Soviets were also concerned that Japanese troops in Manchuria were within easy striking distance of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, its only reliable link to the Soviet Far East. Between 19, both sides accused the other of hundreds of border incursions. The Soviets and the Mongols believed the border was 10 miles further east, at the village of Nomonhan. Japan believed the border ran along the Khalk river (Khalkhin Gol in Mongolian). The Soviet-Japanese War, 1932-1939ĭisputes over the demarcation of the border between Manchuria and Mongolia were the initial cause of the conflict. The Sino-Japanese war, an undeclared conflict, lasted from 1932 through 1939, and came to a dramatic climax at the Battle of Khalkhin Gol. The Japanese seizure of Manchuria, a region where Czarist Russia once had wide-ranging interests, led to growing tensions between Tokyo and Moscow. The Imperial Defense Plan of 1936, the genesis of Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," tried to reconcile the conflicting doctrines by proposing to seize the natural resources of Siberia by attacking the Soviet Union via Manchuria, while also targeting the resource-rich colonies of the Dutch, British and French in southeast Asia, especially the petroleum fields of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). During this period, Japanese strategic doctrine called for "defense in the south and advance in the north." To that end, Tokyo aligned itself diplomatically with Great Britain and, to a lesser extent, the U.S.
During the Russian Civil War, Tokyo even considered seizing all of eastern Siberia, east of Lake Baikal.
In the process, it took possession of the Korean peninsula Taiwan Tsingtao the Mariana, Caroline and Marshall Islands and Manchuria. Between 18, Japan fought two wars with China (1890, 1931) fought and defeated Czarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War (1904) invaded and seized German colonies in China and the North Pacific (1914) and participated in the Allied intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War (1918). Significantly, the Northern Road was the initial focus of Japanese imperialism. The Southern Road Group believed that southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands should be the focus of Japanese expansion and that the United States was Japan's principal enemy. The Northern Road group believed that Manchuria and Siberia should be the focus of Japan's imperial ambitions and that Russia, and later the Soviet Union, was Japan's greatest threat.
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