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==Summary==
[[File:Hokushin-ron-Map.svg|thumb|upright=1.35|[[Hokushin-ron|North Strike Group]] plans]]
While this engagement is little known in the West, it played an important part in subsequent Japanese conduct in World War II. The battle earned the Kwantung Army the displeasure of officials in Tokyo, not so much due to its defeat, but because it was initiated and escalated without direct authorization from the Japanese government. This defeat combined with the Chinese resistance in the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]],{{sfn|Beevor|2012|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=XS8xlDaZVJMC&pg=PA250 Chapter 17]}} together with the signing of the [[Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact]] (which deprived the Army of the basis of its war policy against the USSR), moved the Imperial General Staff in Tokyo away from the policy of the [[Hokushin-ron|North Strike Group]]
Instead, support shifted to the [[South Strike Group]],
The United States and Britain had imposed an oil embargo on Japan, threatening to stop the Japanese war effort, but the European colonial powers were weakening and suffering early defeats in the war with Germany; only the [[US Pacific Fleet]] stood in the way of seizing the oil-rich Dutch East Indies.{{r|TheDiplomat2012}} Because of this, Japan's focus was ultimately directed to the south, leading to its decision to launch the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December of that year. Despite [[Kantokuen|plans being carried out]] for a potential war against the USSR (particularly contingent on German advances towards Moscow), the Japanese would never launch an offensive against the Soviet Union. In 1941, the two countries signed agreements respecting the borders of Mongolia and Manchukuo<ref>{{cite web |date=14 April 1941 |title=Declaration Regarding Mongolia |website=The Avalon Project at Yale Law School |url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/s2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311013906/http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/s2.htm |archive-date=11 March 2007 |access-date=24 February 2021}}</ref> and pledging neutrality towards each other.<ref>{{cite web |title=World War II : Documents |website=The Avalon Project at Yale Law School |url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/s1.htm |access-date=4 March 2015 |archive-date=6 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150306092523/http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/wwii.asp }}</ref> In the closing months of World War II, the Soviet Union would [[Soviet–Japanese War|annul the Neutrality Pact and invade the Japanese territories]] in Manchuria, northern Korea, and the southern part of Sakhalin island.
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