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Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, Army Minister Seishiro Itagaki, Finance Minister Ishiwata Sotaro, Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yonai, and Prime Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma each making their entrances at an emergency meeting during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol / Nomonhan Incident, Tokyo, Japan, mid-1939	Georgy Zhukov and Khorloogiin Choibalsan during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, Mongolia Area, China, 1939, photo 1 of 2

Georgy Zhukov and Khorloogiin Choibalsan during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, Mongolia Area, China, 1939, photo 2 of 2	Grigori Shtern, Choibalsan, and Georgy Zhukov in Mongolia Area of China, 1939

Mongolian cavalrymen at the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, Mongolia Area, China, 1939	Mongolian DP machine gun crew, Battle of Khalkhin Gol, Mongolia Area, China, 1939

Pilots of Japanese Army 24th Squadron taking a break during the Nomonhan Incident, Mongolia Area, China, Aug 1939; the pilots were, left to right, Corporal Katsuaki Kira, Sergeant Major Chiyoji Saito (inside Toyota KC truck), Sergeant Major Hisashi Goto, Sergeant Major Koji Ishizawa, Corporal Hiroshi Sato (on truck, behind Ishizawa), and Sergeant Major Goro Nishihara	Soviet BT-7 tank and troops near the Khalkhin Gol river, Mongolia Area, China, Aug 1939

Soviet BT-7 tank crossing the Khalkhin Gol river using an underwater bridge, Mongolia Area, China, Aug 1939	Soviet pilots with an I-16 fighter, Mongolia Area, China, Aug 1939

Soviet troops with captured Japanese field guns, Nomonhan, Mongolia Area, China, Aug 1939	Soviet troops with captured Japanese Type 95 scout car, Battle of Khalkhin Gol, Mongolia Area, China, 1939

Wrecked Soviet aircraft during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, Mongolia Area, China, Aug 1939	Letter to president Roosevelt drafted by physicist Leó Szilárd with assistance from Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner and then signed by Albert Einstein urging the development of nuclear energy, 2 Aug 1939, page 1 of 2

Letter to president Roosevelt drafted by physicist Leó Szilárd with assistance from Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner and then signed by Albert Einstein urging the development of nuclear energy, 2 Aug 1939, page 2 of 2	Molotov signing the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Moscow, Russia, 23 Aug 1939; Shaposhnikov, Ribbentrop, and Stalin in back row

Ribbentrop signing the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Moscow, Russia, 23 Aug 1939, photo 1 of 3; Shaposhnikov, Molotov, and Stalin in back row	Ribbentrop signing the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Moscow, Russia, 23 Aug 1939, photo 2 of 3; Molotov and Stalin in back row

Ribbentrop signing the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Moscow, Russia, 23 Aug 1939, photo 3 of 3; Boris Shaposhnikov and Joseph Stalin in back row	Stalin and Ribbentrop shaking hands after the signing of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Moscow, Russia, 23 Aug 1939