Pearl Harbor The Best Bad Option (Pacific Series Pt 1)
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Why the Japanese Attacked the United States and how it could not be avoided.
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Germany and Japanese plans for victory:
1. Declare war on a major superpower
2. Swiftly win (somehow)
3. Profit
Germany literally thought the USSR would collapse like a house of cards in 2 weeks. Every general thought that. Goebbels was literally the only one who said that he thought that the USSR probably wouldn't fold that quickly.
@@iceoriental123 Tbh, USSR would have collapsed if not for racism in Germany. Many, many, many did not like the Communists (especially the Ukrainians) and Stalin. The correct approach to the occupied territories could save Germany from collapse on the eastern front.
Germany captured a huge piece of russia and took millions of pows in a few months and 22 million soviets will be dead by the end of the war. To be honest if stalin wouldent be the leader of the soviet union, I think there would be a Chance that they would have surrendered.
@@1999Almaz
1) It would not have happened in 2 weeks.
2) Germany went into the USSR to murder them. If they were nice people they wouldn't be Nazis nor would they be aggressively invading nations.
@@jt-ru5iy I think the war itself would not exist. Germany offered the USSR to join the Axis, and if the USSR had not put forward absurd requirements for Germany, it would have entered.
Japan had two options bomb Pearl Harbour or fight the bob semple tank it was a clear choice
The bob semple tank could have destroyed Japan in seconds!!!!
@@mattai075 it would have been worse than both atomic bombs
Instead of droping nukes on japan they should have dropped Bob semple tanks.
Im pretty sure USA did drop bobs on Japan
5 characters that can destroy thanos in seconds (even with infinity gauntlet)
*Meanwhile, somewhere in a hoi4 game*
"Ok, i need to take iwo jima now"
OOORAHHH Me marine me take iwo jima me no take dday
Guys, I got Iwo Jima. Everyone else: BUT YOU LOST IN EUROPE
PAPAU NEW GUINEA!!!!
PAPAU NEW GUINEA DUDES!!!
"All of Europe has fallen but don't worry bois we got Iwo Jima"-FDR
Axel Maldonado Dressel knows what he’s doing
Japan: Sinks a couple of American ships
America: You just Douged your last Dimmadome
Japan didn't have admin permission to delete the US fleet
Yeah!That was a No No!
He used an exploit so had to delete his kamikaze carriers because of the rules
God damn League of Nations Tech Support always changing the password
@@DavidBrown-zp5br That happens to you too!? Thank God I'm not the only one that has it happen to me.
Even if they got the aircraft carriers. That only would've prolonged the war by 1-2-3 years.
Carriers: "lol, we're not at the harbor"
Japan: *visibly frustrated*
Pyroranger
It’s actually ironic, because the Midway operation was created to deal with that problem; the idea being that they would lure out the US carriers by taking Midway.
Except US Intelligence was better than Japanese Intelligence and the US carriers ended up being the ones ambushing the Japanese carriers.
They also sunk like 90% of that carrier fleet over the next couple of months so it wasn't really that big of a frustration.
and the US could replace every lost carrier with three more
lolroflroflcakes
While they did get most of the carriers that were at Pearl a few days before December 7, by that point they had lost most of their own carriers and were also out of pilots.
@@weik-2936 Yes but that is immaterial to the point.
Commodore Perry; "hey Japan, we're gonna trade now"
Japan: "no thanks we're good"
Perry: "how cute, you think you have a choice."
US: Hey Japan we're not gonna trade anymore
Japan: Fuck, Plan B(ad) guys
To be fair US didnt really have to force japan to trade
Open the country
Stop having it be closed
"I'm sure this wouldn't come back to bomb us in Pearl Harbor" - Commodore Perry, probably.
@@hanz2904 Ofc they did have to force them to trade in 1853. What do you think were the 4 warships for, exchanging gifts? The main goal of Perrys mission was getting the Japanese to sell coal so the US steamships have far greater range and can reach China. And selling coal does count as trade imho.
Japan: Your ships are an eyesore.
USA: Your 2 cities need some freedom.
Freedom from existence
AppalachianWolf Epic and based pfp
There's 3 actually, you forgot Tokyo witch was reduced to ash by immense fire bombing claiming the lives of 100,000 people in one massive air raid
👎
@@lazylazar1019 yeah, and the fire tornados they caused were pretty fucking brutal as well. Metal as all hell, but no bueno for all the civilians living there.
Japan: **Destroys American Fleet**
USA: **rebuilds fleet after few months**
Japan: "Well that escalated quickly"
Ninu I need someone to take that family guy scene of the Amish rebuilding that barn multiple times and just splice that with american ships
@@looinrims here's a quick edit I did th-cam.com/video/ddE7t2GyBpQ/w-d-xo.html
Ninu how did I not see this till now
"No! This isn't how you're supposed to play the game!"
Pearl Harbor: **exists**
Japan: “You’ve yeed your last haw!”
America: Cowabunga it is!
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: *exists*
America: You've yee'd your last haw.
Japan: *Oh no*
@@StrangeAether
Midway: *exists*
America: omae wa mo no shindeiru
Japan Carrier's: *NANI??!?*
America: "4 Japanese Carriers Destroyed! Turning The Tide of the Battle!
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Japan: sinks few enemy battleships
America: sinks 2 enemy cities
Japan: :O
*firebombs tokyo*
and everything else
Firebombs every major city*
nik Bahtin ohhh damn those pesky ruthless civilians, especially children in school who just can’t stop killing more Chinese and Americans, I hope they burn in hell and never recover from radiation poisoning for generations to come
There was a great pearl harbor movie called: tora tora tora
It is a great movie that is historically accurate, but History Buff does a pretty good video about it.
That movie is so good
I thought that movie was about three copies of the Hebrew scriptures...
Oh, wait, that was _Torah, Torah, Torah_
Reminds me of my half-jewish Japanese neighbor; every December he gets drunk and attacks Pearl Goldstein.
I hate ur profile pic
@@lotharlaishram765 Grimorly the Wizard from TSR games???
3:52 Well to be fair....the Washington naval treaty, and the later London Naval treaty didn't aim to JUST limit naval power of opposing countries (Germany I am looking at yoi)....it also aimed to prevent the countries involved in the treaties from bankrupting themselves through a crazy naval arms race. Which became especially more important, since the Great Depression occurred not too long ago
Can you imagine if the Japanese had bombed auckland instead? Invoking the wrath of a country that invented the bob semple tank would've destroyed not only japan , but the entire western pacific
They knew the consequences of trying to face the bob semple tank
Oh gosh Imagine if New Zealand took over the world...
Had the Bob Semple tank entered production no country would have stood a chance. We’d all be speaking Kiwi now...
@@njsullyalex2744 New Zealand did conquer the world during World War II with sheeppower and their equally small and resilliant ally, Delaware.
"I said 'OAKLAND,' you idiot!!"
@@MadDogTaunts I see another fan of Kilian. You sir, are a man of culture.
The Pearl Harbor attack makes sense when you remember Japan's experience with Russia in 1904-05. They initiated a war with a continent-spanning power with a major assault on an enemy naval base, won a series of lopsided victories for about a year, and then--the Russians threw in the towel. They were likely using that model for the Pacific War, and without the benefit of hindsight it wasn't an unreasonable plan. Of course, it didn't work this time, much to Japan's misfortune.
The main difference between the two were:
Russia was primarily a land-based power, and had its navy spread out across 4 seas, while the US was primarily a sea-based power, and had its navy in 2 seas which were easily accessible to one another.
I don't see how the Japanese didn't realize this. Maybe they did, and just did it anyways.
The Russian pacific fleet was relatively small, and the baltic fleet and balkan (is that the name for the one in southern europe near Ukraine) are aproximately 258 light years away from the pacific.
I doubt that that the Japanese failed to see that.
@@idisplaypace2411Black Sea Fleet
@@FreyR_Kunn ya my brain just left me for a second
Geneva convention: *Exists*
WW2 Japan: I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that..
Well, they never signed it anyway...
Which of the Geneva Conventions would that be? Because there were only three by the time World War 2 started.
Let me clear something up: this post is here for comedic purposes and holds no real historical accuracy nor was it meant to.
US signs Geneva convention
*nukes 2 civilian targets*
@@rhysnichols8608 Yeah opposed to nuking not civilian targets aka *NOTHING*
Britain: Hey US, you want to join against Germany?
US: no can do, but here have some weapons
But everything changed when the Japanese attacked.
OVERSIMPLIFIED INTENSIFIES
OVERSIMPLIFIED
Switch Britain with any other country it works just as well lol
I thought the US wanted to join the war though.
Meanwhile in Korea during the attack, my grandfather led a resistance movement to end Japanese rule. Guerrilla tactics never fail
Gotta love the supreme leader
Pretty sure Kim Song-ju was in the Red Army in 1941 (not fighting the Germans, though).
Your grandfather was a captain in the Soviet Red Army during WWII. Probably the one of the few ethnic Koreans in the Red Army. So they made him Great Leader.
Well did he also use Gorilla tactics 😮
@@inoob6763 lol
"I fear we've awakened a Gigachad and filled him with a terrible desire to flex"
Japan: Why did u bomb me?
America: You messed with my ships,
*i mess with ur cities*
E
Why do your posts constantly get reccomended to me
Japan: war has changed
America: war... War never changes
Japan: FFFFUUUUUUU
nukes intensifies
Metal gear is better
Piroclanidis metal gear doesn’t have mod that changes final boss to Thomas the tank engine with Miller for wings
Nigga, on what earth is Metal Gear better than the fallout series? The same earth from that one Godzilla movie where time travelers came back to 90's Japan to stop Japan from buying the world? You're probably such a Kojima kamikaze pilot you think the series is even good beyond memes! XD
@@savage7882 Fallout 3 will never be toped
It's ironic that every step of the growth of the Empire of Japan was to get more resources to deal with the lack of resources that resulted from expansion. They learned the hard way that empires are not profitable and are only useful for controlling strategic resources or land for settlement.
@SS Officer of the Third Reich and what happened to the British empire after 1960? Lost money. Japan was late to the race and decided that spending millions of lives on ricefields was better than oil deposits and rubber plantations. Also I wouldnt say Napoleon is the best example of a successful, victorious empire.
The British Empire fell apart even though the UK won the war.
@SS Officer of the Third Reich The United Kingdom and the British Empire are absolutely not the same thing.
@SS Officer of the Third Reich The United Kingdom of England, Scotland and Wales is what the UK refers too.
The British Empire is the UK plus the modern day commonwealth
This is not hard to understand
@@mojowwwav4357 This guy is a special kind of stupid.
3:10 *Knock Knock its a Bill Wurtz reference*
It's The US, with boats, and guns, gunboats, "Open the country, stop having it closed"
@@syaondri And everyone hired samurai.
(Correction, only rich important people hired samurai. Those who could not afford to hire samurai did not hire samurai)
"An all out attack against the US would be suicidal."
"Bonzai?"
"Bonzai!"
*"BONZAI!"*
*Banzai
@@mikumiku8231 Stfu weeb. All you know is random hentai words and cutesy fucking bullshit
i believe it's banzai but that's were my knowledge of japanese ends
@@cortex8239 mate no need to get salty, it IS spelt banzai.
@@cortex8239 chill out dude. attacking someone so harsh for a simple polite correction about the proper term. you got issues. for a simple profile picture...it is just a picture,nothing else
Japan after signing a treaty with Germany: Great now we've got Germany on our backs, we can invade America
Germany after signing a treaty with Japan: Great now we've got Japan on our backs. we can invade Russia
Its funny because if Japan empire stopped invading KMT China and instead invaded eastern siberia coordinating with germans, US might not have cared to embargo japanese oil and thus war with US might not have happened
This all led to the creation of anime, take that as you will.
Hello person this is anime
Pope Leo III lead to the creation of anime, just so happens pearl harbor is one of the last events in the chain.
Truly a double edged sword.
Caliber your right, the Japanese government gave funds to some animation studios in order to produce War propaganda. Which lead to the first full length anime feature film which was a propaganda film. All of this and an economic boom later on led to anime being more mainstream in Japan or you can make a bomb joke either one works.
Anime is more of a continuation of Japan's already existent manga traditions combined with animation principles from the West.
*giant sleeping bear*
Japan: "one strike, if I break it's neck I may win."
Japan: *trips and shovel lands on the head of the bear*
Japan: "fuck"
*gets mauled to death*
3:30 Incidentally, one of the reasons Japan could industrialize quickly had nothing to do with Japan. The Taiping Rebellion devastated China's silk industry, leaving Japan as the primary producer of silk. Thus, Japan could more effectively fund industrialization and acquire materials by selling their now more valuable silk.
I am pretty sure it was not that simple...
That was like one out of 50 other reasons.
That's a vast oversimplification
@@set_5341that’s why he led with “one of the reasons”
this is CCP propaganda/cope
US: It’s over Japan! I have the high oil supplies!
Japan: You underestimate my balls
US: don’t try it...
Japan: *bombs Pearl Harbor*
FrogChip US: *Destroys Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki*
@@looinrims Japan to the US while burning alive from this: I hate you!
@@virgiljianu7166 “it was said you’d destroy the Communists not join them! Bring balance to Asia, not leave it in darkness!”
@@looinrims Wait,didn't you mean the fascists?
@@virgiljianu7166 it’s more a reference to how their actions allowed the communist Chinese to not only survive but take over China
It's hilarious the Japanese thought we wouldn't want a long fight and fighting is literally one of our favorite activities
>Potential History posts a video.
>literally stop everything I'm doing.
I love that picture of the chinese Sherman. They ran out of ammo for the cannon and so they took it out of the turret(finaly the removable mantlet was usefull) and replaced it with a russian DTM machine gun.
Japan: America is lazy
America: hold my beer
Smooth Yoda I had a stroke reading that Jesus
@Smooth Yoda You're smooth alright, smooth brained.
@Smooth Yoda ah ok lol
@Smooth Yoda it happens to the best of us mate
Japan: *bombs pearl harbour*
USA: cowabunga it is
I’m so glad u are Doing videos on the Pacific theater of WW2. It personally my favorite part to read about in WW2 because my grandfather was a PT boater in the Pacific During the war
Japan: I attacked the US.
Nazi Germany: You WHAT!
The United States joins the battle!!
America: omae wa mou shindeiru
Axis power: NANI!?
Historical edit:
Japan: I attacked the US
Hitler: Cool! I'll declare war on them, then!
Every rational person in Germany: YOU WHAT!!?
Every Allied nation: *gleefully rubs hands together*
Britain LIKES this
USSR LIKES this
free France LIKES this
China LIKES this
I believe after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill actually stated, “We have won the war!”
United States has joined the Allies.
President FDR: Where did all the Chinese civilians go?
Japan: Gone, reduced to ashes
When literally everyone knows literally everything has to go absolutely perfectly, it's not a best bad idea, it's just a bad idea.
Nope. It was the best bad idea.
Sometimes people mix the terms.
War with USA was the bad idea.
But upon accepting War was inevitable Pearl Harbor was the good surprise idea.
Perhaps a good surprise idea but a bad strategic idea. You sneak attack someone, then then expect them to enter a peace settlement? What part of human nature does that come from? Try it yourself sometime, go burn your neighbors car, then say Oops my bad, lets just shake hands and be friends now. Go sucker punch someone and say the same thing.. Not going to happen. Just human nature. Ask yourself what would have happened if FDR announced to America he brokered a peace settlement with Japan a week or two after Pearl Harbor. would he be thought a hero, or would he have been impeached?
@@6handicap604 In fairness, that's kind of exactly what happened in the Russo-Japanese war. Japan went all out early, inflicted a string of demoralizing defeats on the Russians, who probably could have turned things around if their leadership hadn't lost the stomach for the fight. And the for the last half decade their experience with the Western Powers had largely been that they talk a lot but care very little what about happens in Asia. Americas stubborn refusal to get involved in the war in Europe also can be interpreted as an unwillingness to fight a prolonged war.
When you look at it from a purely japanese lens you can see how they'd have convinced themselves it was doable. Demoralize the Americans, seize the strategic (proverbial) high ground, force them to choose between a long and bloody war or simply agree to leave Japan to it's own devices in an area of the world America, at the time, had limited interest in anyway.
Considering the other option was to basically surrender all their recent conquests and retreat back to the unfortunately resource poor home islands, leaving them vulnerable to Western Powers in the future (which is how the japanese high command saw it, rightly or wrongly)... eh, still not a great choice, but you can see a certain logic to it
@@petriew2018 I can agree that many hold this same view of Japanese thinking prior to the onset of WW2. But there are many facts, known to the Japanese that this line of thinking ignores. The U.S. had not entered the war in Europe, yet. So, there is a reluctance to fight a prolonged war? However, the U.S. had sent over a million troops to France in WW1. The U.S. when incentives were there, we were perfectly willing and able to fight a very deadly war. What better incentive than a sneak attack? Also, the U.S. is a Republic with democratic rules. We do not have a Monarch, Tsar, or Emperor, nor any one person who decides to go to war or end a war, unlike Russia or Japan. Their thinking is the same as a bully. If I cower one person, then I can cower every person. Eventually the bully learns the error of his thinking. The Tsar ended the Russo-Japanese war, one man. The Japanese Emperor ended WW2, one man. Name one man in the U.S. who could have ended the war with Japan with a treaty. Even the most ardent isolationist and America First proponent, Lindberg, joined the military after Pearl Harbor. An Armistice with Japan after Pearl Harbor would have been political suicide and would never passed Congress.
Then there is the two Vinson Naval Acts, of 1934 and 1938. Years before Pearl Harbor. These Acts show that the U.S. was gearing up for potential war, and in a very large way. The U.S.S. Enterprise was laid down in 1934 under this Act. With many more being built, planned and funded already, including the first 3 Iowa class battleships. If the Japanese KNEW anything, they knew they could not stop or even slow this production.
There is as much conflicting historical fact opposing this thinking as there is supporting this supposed Japanese thinking.
If history has proven anything about WW2, it has proven the fallacy of Japanese and German thinking about land and resources. Look at both today, two of the top economies in the world, with no more resources and territory than prior to WW2, yet very successful. It seems purchasing your requirements in a peaceful free market is much more beneficial than trying to steal them through war.
PH: I haven't watched any anime other than Girls und Panzer and KanColle
Also PH: *makes a Dagashi Kashi reference in this video and a Golden Kamuy reference in the Russo-Japanese War video*
I like the memes in the beginning of ypur video s. Great video it is a really bad idea to attack the US.
crazy how you blew up over the last year
good work man!
Top 10 biggest oopsies in anime
Anime was invented after WW2.
R/Whoosh
Please include me with a phat neon green circle please
*Japan did an Oopsie!*
*Nazi germany did an Oopsie!*
*Italy did some Oopsies!*
Ult1mateK1ng0ofNoth1ng the 1st *Italy is an Oopsie!*
6:57 "Convince the United States to roll over and accept the changes because the Japanese didn't think they would have the stomach for a long fight."
Yeah, that's one of the worst miscalculations in modern history.
Looking forward to the rest of the videos in this series! I hope you spend some time talking about the American use of unrestricted submarine warfare, as that is a drastically overlooked part of the Pacific campaign and one which, IMO, had more of an impact than people often give credit for.
Drake MacLaren
That may also be a good way to mention that the IJN’s weakest point was ASW and not understanding how submarines were important.
(The opposite problem with the Kriegsmarine, which knew subs but didn’t even finish building their carrier)
Really excited for the upcoming naval videos!
How wonder how many of them will feature enterprise
@@USSAnimeNCC- Might be enough to warrant a counter like in the derps for the Baltic Fleet video lol
USS Anime DD24
The ones of note are Midway and nearly the entire Guadalcanal Campaign.
After the Essex-Class came out Enterprise was no longer the dominant US capital ship, though she still participated in all the major battles.
@@bkjeong4302 too bad she was sold for scrap just like Warspites victory cost so much dept
USS Anime DD24
And they saved the Iowas which were unnecessary in WWII....(you don’t need 16” guns for anti-air escort so why even build a battleship for that role?) and didn’t do anything noteworthy enough for them to deserve preservation. Skewed priorities much?
As much as I think of the Iowas as the best-designed battleships ever, they’re still overrated in terms of actual performance. To the extent that people seriously think they have any sensible use today. Being the crowning example of a concept that had already been made obsolete isn’t really impressive, IMO.
Japan attacked pearl harbor
This enraged America who punished him severely.
Dude, use Nord VPN
I see you are a man of culture aswell.
@@basil9973 no I’m to late to say it :(
1:05 "Simulator" lol sure wargaming...
""""""""Simulator""""""""
"Simulator"? More like Arcade, because that game has HP on it.
@@moisesezequielgutierrez
The joke went a coupe of miles over your head didn't it?
also talking about how good the cv rework is
I mean wt navy also has HP, also HP in wows is LIKE wt but its been simplified
I'm very glad your covering the war in the pacific. It's the only part of WW2 that I don't find a complete snore. Your videos contain memes, but they're actually far more informative then most as you take a wider view on topics thus making it far easier to digest without being bogged down. So, I look forward to more.
"I fear we have awoken the sleeping dragon.."- Isoroku Yamamoto, 1941
Wait a second, is it really accurate to characterize the US-Japan relationship as 'never great'? From my understanding, as much as being bossed around by foreigners did grate the Japanese, they ultimately realized it was much more beneficial to them to keep relationships amicable. So never buddy-buddy but at least respected teading partners until Imperial Japan really started shit in the Pacific.
Trade wise, it was ok. But in terms of America trying to hamper down on the Japanese's sphere of influence... they hated it.
Japan and the US actually had somewhat good relations for a while, Japan was one of the few countries that the US actually talked to and didn’t ban immigrants from when they wanted to ban immigration from Asia.
Keep in mind it was usually an uneasy alliance, Japan didn’t like getting pushed around and the US did that to Japan a few times, but both never really thought about war with each other until WW II
@@Redbird-dh7mu that is largely because of who was in charge at the time. People forget that there were two broad factions of Japan up until the 1930s: the 'Old Men' (many of whom built modern Japan) and the Imperialists (the chuckleheads that we know and love today). The Old Men's broad plan was... basically turning Japan into an Asian Venice, a trade empire with bases to ensure its trade routes, and it must be noted that they didn't want to take Korea as a colony. The Imperialists wanted to Japan to be in the Big Nations Club and used Britain and France as a basis... and were the ones that bypassed the Old Men and got Korea made into a colony.
That segué into Roosevelt's speech gave my heart a big oof...
My man always rocking that Medal of Honor soundtrack in almost every video.
Man, the Last Samurai is so good. I especially loved the practical effects. You can watch one guy's musket basically fall apart because it's a prop, and you can see a pure fail to ignite when a guy hits it with his torch, only for it to light up a full second after he passes it.
Omfg thank you! We need THIS exact project as reference to an alt history scenario we've been constructing. It's so difficult to find a proper, inclusive point by point Pacific war summary.
I really like this Pacific theme, great video
That Medal of Honor: Rising Sun music though. Nostalgia
I’ve literally never heard anyone say the US was out of line to end trade with Japan in light of Japan’s warmaking, or that Japan was “forced” to attack the US. Japan was only “forced” to attack the US because Japan insisted on carrying out a war of conquest on all neighboring lands. They had another option (at least theoretically): try and stop the war and work out treaties. It was only their insistence on continuing fighting that lead to them attacking Pearl Harbor.
I've read a lot of comments that claim the US was actively goading Japan into fighting them with sanctions, provocative actions, political responses, and the like. As you've said, this is complete nonsense and the Japanese definitely could've avoided the whole mess entirely had they just stopped fighting and chose to negotiate. But yeah, tons of people believe this for god knows why..
I've heard that, don't agree with it though.
Great vid man. Got a lot of nostalgia when you played the MoH Rising Sun theme in the background early in the vid. Keep up the great work!
“Greatest naval war”
*the Carthaginian wars want to know your location*
Pacific War was greater.
@@eodyn7 in terms of ships used I’m pretty sure the first Punic war trumps the pacific war
@@harleyokeefe5193 but to be honest, wooden ships can be shit out like you have the instant training cheat in hoi4.
USA: This war is none of my business and my people don't want to take part in it... So-
IJN: *Does Pearl Harbor*
Germany: EXCUSE ME WHAT THE F-
USA: KAWABANGA IT IS!
This made me laugh way more than it should have
Isn’t the point of the video to say that this is factually wrong. Still funny, but still.
Hi! Can you do a video about Swedish Tanks during ww2?
Why? Sweden was neutral, any locally designed/built tanks would have never seen combat and tanks imported from other countries fall under those countries tank categories
They were underarmored and underguned. There
We had tanks? I thought we just sold all the iron and guns when the fuck did they make a tank.
@@weik-2936 this tank has seen combat. Strv m/40L
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This SPAA was made in Sweden. For the the Finnish army. It shoot down 11 planes With 0 losses.
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@@MrDorkbot Swedish Tank during ww2. Made in Sweden
Strv m/40L
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Strv m/40K
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Strv m/42
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Tank Destroyer
Pvkv m/43
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Spaa
Lvkv fm/43
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Assault gun
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Based on this one video, I subscribed. The funny thing about it was that the United States was already in the War or I should say Wars. The Factories and the Shipyards just didn't happen if by magic. It Was all planned out long before Dec 7th. A little while ago I had a question what was the size of the U.S Navy on Dec 7th and when did the build-up really start. What I found was that in 1938 the Navy had 280 commissioned vessels and on Dec 7th it was at 790 and on Sept 2, 1945, 6800 plus another 2700 liberty ships to haul all the stuff. Not counting landing craft. This did not just happen, it had to be well planned and funded and legislation had to be passed to do it. This is just the ship part, the Airplanes tanks small arms and the list goes one. We were not quite as unprepared for war as some would believe, the whole thing was tragic. But war is a lab it determines who is strong and who is not. The told themselves Americans will not fight. Play it forward to 2019 and the Japanese Navy is pretty much the U.S Navy that is run by Japan. Enemies become friends and friends become enemies- human nature on full display!
I've been watching this channel for ages now and love these videos about the Pacific side of the war. I am way more interested in the Pacific theatre to be fair so it's good to hear about it.
Totally unrelated, but... The Medal of Honor: Rising Sun main menu theme at 2:00. GAH, my childhood! When I first heard that, I thought there was no way it was actually it, but then I backed it up and realized it was. You've got good taste, man, and thanks for the memories.
*Japan does pearl harbour*
USA : That wasn’t very cash money of you.
You missed the British deciding not to renew the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in favor of pursuing closer relations with the United States which led to the Washington Naval Treaty.
The one dislike was from Hirohito
This is gonna be good. Seriously tho, I really enjoy looking at this part of WWII, so being able to get videos on it with memez is gonna be 50x better.
Hey Potential History after this series and speaking of aircraft carriers can you do a history look on USS Enterprise CV-6? because that carrier alone from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa turned the tide for the US Navy and the Japanese thought they sunk her 3 times only to come back earning her the nickname 'Grey Ghost" and as well as the most decorated warship ever with 20 battle stars.
Do defense of Poland
Russian Soldier666
Given that most public perception of that is falsely coloured by Nazi propaganda, that would be a good idea.
@@bkjeong4302 especially the one of
hAhA tHeY wErE uNdErEquIpPeD bC hOrsIeS iN WWII
@@bkjeong4302 Something something charging tanks with cavalry
Hit it on the head.
@@spetzo1212 Except the Polish military literally was underequipped. They fought like men posessed but ultimately couldn't stand against the Wehrmacht in it's prime.
“Let’s defeat this major super power but taking a bunch of their territory quickly” said every bad guy in WWII
Scanning... scanning... goodidea.pdf couldn’t not be found in the ‘Axis’ folder
Well, between Japan and its carriers and Germany and its submarines, they independently developed the two new aspects of naval warfare that would play critical roles in WWII and beyond.
Which they blew because they had worse intelligence, industrial capacity, and (with carriers) pilot training doctrine than the Allies.
(Ironically, considering is ally Germany was the mother of modern submarine warfare, Japanese submarine and ASW was horrific. People like to rip on bad Japanese AA because it’s subpar compared to the US, but at least the IJN saw that as a problem, and it’s bad mostly when compared against US AA doctrine and technology which was far better than that of the other Allies; but with the submarines they never even bothered to try)
Emil the reason I think the Allies took so long wasn’t that the axis were really that good, it was just the British and French made some big opsies thinking that ww2 would be like ww1, and the Soviets in 1941 were really just unprepared for such an attack and their equipment was really outdated. Overall, the axis just did average against a bad opponent until the bad opponent became a good opponent and then the axis fell apart.
@@kaihinton6623 it's also because of mobilizing. The Allies were basically huge behemoths that requires longer time to be ready for war.
syaondri never said they weren’t capable, just said they did average considering their position pre war
syaondri yes when I said ‘not good’ I just meant not good but not bad either
I was literally searching for this video 1 month ago. God bless you for making it
The MOH Rising Sun theme in the beginning was a nice touch.
"This is the best bad idea we got sir." Lol yeah basically.
I hear Medal of Honor Pacific soundtrack. What a call back.
Pearl harbor *exists*
Japan:it's free real estate
Hiroshima and Nagasaki EXISTS
U.S: it's free real estate
(sorry, I had)
but they didn't invade it, they just bombed it
Looking foward for the following episodes.
That transition into that speech
Good idea: having soldiers willing to fight to the end
Bad idea:Not giving up after the first nuke
German tanks part 2 or gulag
you promised us this Johnny.
Sooo uh... I was watching this while playing world of warships and I uh... scored a detonation on the hood while sailing the Bismarck...
Well, at least he got some flags out of it.
Whats that I hear do my ears decive me is that metal of honnor music.This puts a smile on my face
I just recently discovered your channel. After a few vids, I subbed. I have now binge watched all of them and can't wait for more. Great job my friend!!
One of my favorite things I've heard about the Japanese home front is how the Japanese government lied to their people about the progress of the war was that they would report that every battle was a "great victory" for the Empire, sinking a ton of enemy ships, of course, anyone with a map and basic math skills would realize that these "great victories" were happening closer and closer to home, and that despite how many enemy ships were reported sunk in each "victory", the enemy still had plenty of ships to lose in the next "victory", and the next one, and the next one, and the next one, eventually it would start to seem to the Japanese citizens that the enemy had an infinite number of ships to lose
the japanese claimed to have sunk the enterprise 3 times.
@@jeffreymcfadden9403 Because they genuinely thought they sank her when they'd just badly damaged her.
Anyone heard of unit 731??
AKA: "the lets give the Nazi's a run for their money in war crimes unit"
They actually did worse than the Nazis.
@@bkjeong4302 that's why it says run for their money
The Japanese probably take the prize for most casual and institutionalised cruelty at every level of command.
@@gma5607 you know their soldiers were hopped up on meth to dull their empathy and make it easier to be as cruel as possible? Institutionalized cruelty doesn't even begin to cover it
Just for fun I’m calling the future videos now:
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
The Numerous battles of Guadalcanal
Battle of the Philippine Sea
Battle of the Leyte Gulf
SabotSolvesEverything
Leyte Gulf was already covered on this channel.
Bk Jeong No, that specific battle was the Battle of Samar.
@@gohom3882 ye. lot of important things where skipped.
Adagio for Strings was a nice touch.
The fact that you used the soundtrack from MoH Rising Sun just makes this so much better to me. Thank you.
Greatest Naval War?
*I think the Romans and Carthaginians would like to have a word with you good sir*
The Punic wars may have had some fairly large naval battles for antiquity, but they don't really have the same scale. Nor did the naval component of these wars dominate the entire theater to the extent seen in the Pacific.
@@rogercoulombe3613 Of course people back in antiquity didn't have the ability to wage battles from World War Two in terms of area, the largest naval battle (in terms of number of ships) was Cape Ecnomus which housed nearly 680 ships all fighting at once.
@@tyrian_baal and men
@@tyrian_baal Didn't the battle of Red Cliff have significantly more ships ? And involve more men
Stannis is THE Mannis Could you give me a number of ships
Japan : **attacks America**
Germany : *WHAT HAVE YOU BROUGHT UPON THIS CURSED LAND???*
If you haven't, you need to read "Miracle at Midway" as it highlights how aimless Japanese military policy was after Pearl Harbor happened. It really explains why Japan did a lot of the stupid things they did December 7th onwards
Your upload schedule is amazing!
The new logo/watermark on the videos makes my life. Potential life.
I'm seeing a theme of "I'll just hope that they just roll over and die" with the axis
(Some meeting room in Japan)
General: So, what ideas do we have?
Other guy: Hey! Let's go and attack the USA!!!
Entire room: Thunderous applause
But then...
2:36
General: WHY DID YOU GIVE US THAT IDEA????!!!!!!
Emus, and Bob semple tanks.
There you go.
'Medal of Honor: Rising Sun' music was an amazing touch 👌
For those who never heard of it at the time Battlestations Midway and Pacific are decade old games you can still get through Steam for 10$ and then have massive multiplayer matches that way controlling entire fleets and air forces or even just ai skirmish or the campaign, you can also take over individual ships and planes and fight it out with the enemy.
I love Battlestations: Pacific. I tried to get it on steam and it was only $1 it wouldn't launch tho.
@@aleksandersaame9417 I also got it about two weeks ago for just under 2$ Owned it before but gave it away with my Xbox 360, that sucks man have you tried right clicking on the shortcut and attempting to start it in compatibility mode for an earlier version of windows?, I am on Windows 8.1 and haven't had issues but I saw a lot of people on the Steam comments using 10 who couldn't start it, I made a windows live account but can't seem to get it to login so have just been playing the odd skirmish.
I don't know it it's just poor optimization or what though my laptop has 2 gpu's and has been able to play everything I have thrown at it so far but with BS:P it gets choppy at times even with mid to low graphics settings.