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What if the Soviets Were What Caused Imperial Japan to Surrender to the Allies? The atomic bombs certainly helped make a difference, but Tokyo was also losing badly to the suddenly losing badly to the suddent Soviet onslaught in occupied China. Key point: The Soviet Red Army was powerful and Moscow was preparing, with help from Washington, to invade Imperial Japan. Did Tokyo decide it would rather surrender to America than face an invasion by both the United States and the Soviet Union? To the Soviet military, it is known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. Although it had no of...

Andy Burnham has launched his Greater Manchester mayoral manifesto as he bids to secure a second term.  Billed as the region’s response to the government’s ‘levelling up agenda’, the document – entitled ‘Our Place, Our Time’ – sets out how the incumbent mayor will improve transport, housing and jobs if re-elected. ‘Repairing the damage’ to Greater Manchester Police, which went into special measures last year after a damning inspection report found it had failed to record 80,000 crimes, is listed as a ‘high ongoing priority’. The manifesto also sets out the case for th...

Study this picture: Atomic weapons were scary, but so was the full-on might of the Red Army. Key point: Historians will debate exactly what caused Tokyo to surrender. However, some of the credit must go to the surprise Soviet invasion of Japanese-occupied Manchuria. To the Soviet military, it is known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. Although it had no official name to the Japanese, it has become known in the West as Operation August Storm. It was the greatest defeat in Japanese military history, yet few outside the circles of Japanese and Soviet history are even aware that ...