Neutrality Pact

Later in 1941 , Japan would consider breaking the pact when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union ( Operation Barbarossa ) at the start of the Great Patriotic War , but they made the crucial decision to keep it and to continue to press into south east Asia.

On April 5 1945 the Soviet Union informed the Japanese Government that the pact was redundent and that "in accordance with Article Three of the ... pact, which envisaged the right of denunciation one year before the lapse of the five year period of operation of the pact, the Soviet Government hereby makes know to the Government of Japan its wish to denounce the pact of April 13, 1941."

On August 8 1945 the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and launched Operation August Storm keeping their promise to the other Allies at the Yalta Conference to enter the war with Japan thee months after the End Of World War II In Europe .

SEE ALSO

Potsdam Conference Potsdam Declaration

REFERENCES

Soviet-Japanese Neutrality and Denunciation of the Avalon Project at Yale University

--- Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact April 13 , 1941

--- Declaration Regarding Mongolia April 13 , 1941

--- Soviet Denunciation Of Pact With Japan April 5 , 1945

--- Soviet War Declaration On Japan August 8 , 1945

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