100: Nomonhan Pt. 2 - Opening Phases

History of the Second World War

Wesley Livesay

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The summer of 1939, near the Mongolian village of Nomonhan, would see the largest clash between the Soviet Union and Japan of the interwar years, and it would have important ramifications for relations between the two nations as the world was rapidly descending into war. Sources: Anti-Russian and Anti-Soviet Subversion: The Caucasian-Japanese Nexus, 1904-1945 by Hiroaki Kuromiya and Georges Mamoulia Japanese Geopolitics and the Mongol Lands, 1915-1945 by Li Narangoa Khalkin-Gol: The Forgotten War by Amnon Sella The Lake Khasan Affair of 1938: Overview and Lessons by Alvin D. Coox (1973) Soviet-Japanese Confrontation in Outer Mongolia: The Battle of Nomonhan-Khalkin Gol by Larry W. Moses (1967 Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 by Alvin D. Coox Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II by Stuart D. Goldman Contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on History of the Second World War. History of the Second World War is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.0	Man, part two, opening phases. This week, a big thank you goes out to Jose, who has decided to become a member,
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1:00.7	episodes roughly every month. Head on over to History of the Second World War.com
1:05.5	slash members to find out more. As this is episode 100, and as I know that many listeners are waiting for
1:14.3	the European phases of the Second World War to start on the podcast, I thought I would give a
1:19.8	look at the road ahead. This episode today starts a three-episode series on the fighting
1:25.3	around Nomanhan in the summer of 1939, fighting that would
1:29.4	overlap with the German invasion of Poland in September of that year. Then in episode 103,
1:35.7	we will start a five-part series that I've entitled, Europe Goes to War, which will focus on the
1:42.8	events of the summer of 1939 as Europe moved closer and closer to war, which will focus on the events of the summer of 1939 as Europe moved
1:46.0	closer and closer to war, covering topics like the growing tension in Danzig, the British and
1:51.7	French guarantees of Polish borders, and preparations for war around the continent.
1:57.3	That will be episode 103 to 107.
2:01.1	Then in episode 108, there will be an episode where I will just give some reflections on all of the first 107 episodes of the podcast, looking at the events during the interwar period at a higher level to discuss kind of themes and trends and to once again consider the question
2:19.0	of whether or not war was inevitable. Then in episode 109, the series of episodes on the
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