South Sakhalin Offensive Operation

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World War II military campaign military offensive

The South Sakhalin Offensive Operation was a 1945 Soviet military campaign against Japan aimed at seizing the southern part of Sakhalin Island during the final stages of World War II.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II military campaign → military offensive →
alsoKnownAs	Sakhalin Offensive → South Sakhalin Operation →
belligerent	Empire of Japan → Soviet Union →
cause	Soviet declaration of war on Japan on 1945-08-08 →
combatant	Japanese 5th Area Army → Soviet 2nd Far Eastern Front →
commander	Dmitry Krylov NERFINISHED → Ivan Maslennikov NERFINISHED → Maxim Purkayev →
conflict	Soviet–Japanese War →
conflictType	land and amphibious operation →
countryInvolved	Japan → Soviet Union →
date	August 1945 →
endDate	1945-08-25 →
followedBy	Invasion of the Kuril Islands →
historicalPeriod	final stages of World War II →
location	Karafuto Prefecture → Sakhalin Island → South Sakhalin →
objective	occupation of Karafuto Prefecture → seizure of southern Sakhalin Island →
opponent	Imperial Japanese Army → Imperial Japanese Navy →
opposedBy	Japanese Karafuto garrison →
outcome	annexation of South Sakhalin by the Soviet Union →
partOf	Pacific War → Soviet Far East campaigns of 1945 → Soviet invasion of Manchuria → Soviet–Japanese War → World War II →
precededBy	Soviet invasion of Manchuria →
region	Northeast Asia → Russian Far East →
relatedAgreement	Yalta Conference decisions on the Far East →
result	Soviet victory →
startDate	1945-08-11 →
strategicSignificance	facilitated subsequent Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands → secured Soviet control over approaches to the Sea of Okhotsk →
theatre	Far East theatre of World War II → Pacific theatre of World War II →
timePeriod	20th century →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
South Sakhalin Offensive Operation ("South Sakhalin Operation") → South Sakhalin Offensive Operation ("Sakhalin Offensive") →	alsoKnownAs
Soviet occupation of Kuril Islands ("Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin") →	follows
Soviet–Japanese War (1945) →	hasPart
Soviet–Japanese War (1945) ("Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin") →	significantEvent