Battles of Khalkhin Gol

Battles of Khalkhin Gol

After the occupation of Manchuria in 1931, Japan turned its military interests to Soviet territories that bordered those areas. The first major Soviet-Japanese border incident, the Battle of Lake Khasan, happened in 1938 in Primorye. Clashes between Japanese and Soviet forces frequently occurred on the border of Manchuria.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles of Khalkhin Gol
• Page 25 - Beevor, A., 1998, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: Penguin Group, New York, 494p.