<P> The Communist Party's position in China was boosted further upon the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945 against the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and the Japanese Kwantung Army in China and Manchuria . Upon the intervention of the Soviet Union against Japan in World War II in 1945, Mao Zedong in April and May 1945 had planned to mobilize 150,000 to 250,000 soldiers from across China to work with forces of the Soviet Union in capturing Manchuria . </P> <P> After Germany invaded Poland, France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 . In January 1940, French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier made a major speech denouncing the actions of Germany: </P> <P> At the end of five months of war, one thing has become more and more clear . It is that Germany seeks to establish a domination of the world completely different from any known in world history . </P> <P> The domination at which the Nazis aim is not limited to the displacement of the balance of power and the imposition of the supremacy of one nation . It seeks the systematic and total destruction of those conquered by Hitler and it does not treaty with the nations which it has subdued . He destroys them . He takes from them their whole political and economic existence and seeks even to deprive them of their history and culture . He wishes only to consider them as vital space and a vacant territory over which he has every right . </P>

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