Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - I muri mai i te tau 1941, ka whakaarohia e Japan te pakaru i te kawenata i te wa i whakaekehia ai e Tiamana Nazi te Soviet Union i roto i te Operation Barbarossa, engari i whakatauhia e ratou te whakatau nui kia mau tonu, kia haere tonu ki te Tonga ki te Tonga o Ahia. I kii tenei na te Pakanga o Khalkhin Gol. Na te hinganga i reira i kore ai a Hapani e hono atu ki a Tiamana ki te Soviet Union, ahakoa ko Japan me Tiamana tetahi o te Pact Tripartite. I te 5 o Aperira, 1945, ka whakakahoretia e te Soviet Union te kawenata tuatangata, e kī ana e kore e whakahoutia te kawenata ina pau i te 13 o Aperira, 1946. E wha marama i muri mai, i mua i te mutunga o te whakaaetanga o te wehenga, i waenganui i nga pupuhi ngota o Hiroshima me Nagasaki, ka whakapuaki te Soviet Union i te pakanga ki a Japan, he tino miharo ki nga Hapanihi. Ko te whakaekenga a te Soviet o Manchuria
i whakarewahia kotahi haora i muri i te whakapuakitanga o te pakanga.