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(372) documents
1891- 1986
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1879- 1953
1914- 1984
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1909- 1989
June 8, 1945
Harriman updates the President on the adverse relations between the USSR and the United States; observes that Stalin cannot understand the United State's interest in establishing an independent Poland.
July 1945
Harriman reports on Chiang Kai-Shek and Stalin's bartering over the status of Outer Mongolia. Chiang refuses to recognize its independence now, but offers to hold a plebiscite after the war.
August 29, 1945
Report concerning the division of occupied territory in the Pacific between the Soviet Union and the United States.
August 23, 1945
Report on the surrender of Japanese forces on the Kurile Islands.
August 22, 1945
Orders for preparations for a planned invasion of the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the southern Kurile Islands. Operations are not to begin "until special instructions from the Headquarters."
August 21, 1945
Information related to a planned invasion of the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Orders for preparations for a planned invasion of the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the southern Kurile Islands.
August 20, 1945
Orders include preparation for the invasion of the island of Hokkaido and the southern Kurile Islands, but are to "begin... only after special instruction by Stalin."
Vasilevsky reports on the progress of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the surrender of Japanese forces.
August 19, 1945
The plan of operation for a Soviet invasion of the island of Hokkaido and the Kurile Islands.