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Rise of Communism
After the brutal conditions of World War I Russian
soldiers who endured especially horrid conditions
on the eastern front were forced to revolt against
the imperial Russian empire. The revolted under
the revolutionary new idea communism, the
leader of this movement was Vladimir Lenin.
Russian empire was replace with the USSR that
turned the country into a super power at the cost
of far too many lives but because of communism
the soviets were natural enemies of fascist country
like Japan and was inclined to destroy each other.
World War 2
The war led to operation August Storm
because the Empire of a Japan because a
Fascist government and joined with Nazi
Germany which in turn betrayed a
nonaggression treaty with the USSR and
started not only war but a Ideology war
Fascism vs Communism. After the Soviets
defeated Nazi Germany they turned their
attention to Germany ally Japan. The USSR
established in the Yalta conference that to
end the war they would have to defeat
Japan to bring peace back to the world.
End of World War 2
Because of Operation August Storm the Military leaders of
Japan were more horrified by the swift and devastating Soviet
victories on the mainland in the week following Joseph Stalin's
August 8 declaration of war because the Japanese strategy to
protect the home islands was designed to fend off a US
invasion from the South, and left virtually no spare troops to
counter a Soviet threat from the North. The Atomic bombings
shocked the populace of Japan and stopped any popularity to
fight but the military was still in control and after Soviets
joined the was any hope of winning by using attrition of lives
was lost when the vast manpower of both rising super powers
can be brought to bear on Japan was the reason why Japan
capitulated and surrendered.
Second Sino-Japanese War
This is a photo of Japanese troops using gas masks to
protect themselves from the chemicals weapons and
Bacteriological weapons they frequently deployed against
the Chinese in the Second Sino-Japanese War an 8 year
war were more than 42,737,000 Chinese died. Because of
this war soviet forces in the area started to build up and
prepare for its hostilities from their old enemy that beat
them in the Russo-Japanese War and in fact got the
Russians to start planning such operations as August
Strom to stop fascism from spreading on both fronts.
What is the Event
Operation August Storm or the soviet
invasion of Manchuria was one of the one
two punch move by the Allies and the
USSR to end the empire of Japan and thus
end World War 2
Rise of Communist China
Despite help from the Allies, the Nationalist Chinese were
defeated in four and half bloody year of civil war by Maos
communist army. By 1949 because of the help rendered and
allowed by Operation August Storm communist forces were
able to achieve victory and forced the nationalist Chinese to
retreat to the island of Formosa now called Taiwan. Operation
August Storm is major contributor to how China became
communist state even to today and not a republic.
Operation August Storm
Korean War
Because of Operation August Storm and
the spread of communism in Asia caused
the country of Korea to be divided, it was
Korea was cut in half north and South
Korea. This did not work to well so the
northern communist attacked the southern
democracy and the first real conflict
between communism and Democracy
began and because of Operation August
Storm the Cold War heated up in Korea,
Vietnam, and Afghanistan as well.
Operation August Storm
Why is it Pivotal
This operation along with the
atomic bombing of mainland
broke the last hope Japan with
their navy destroyed there
populace in disarm and there
main army conquered in china
there was no hope except to
inflect massive death of
themselves and any who attacked
them. But they also saw that the
soviet have little to no regard for
the soldiers lives and saw that
there hope of getting the
Americans to quit when there
was high casualties would not
work for the soviet Union. Beside
this after Japans defeat
communism was encouraged and
spread and now allowed to grow
in northern china and Korea this
lead to many problems later on
for Western powers.