Why did Japan Join the Axis? (Short Animated Documentary)
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- Ever wondered why Japan joined the Axis powers? No? Well tough. In hindsight it seemed like a bad idea to tie itself to Germany and Italy during the greatest conflict in human history. They're not as foolhardy as you may think. Find out exactly why they did so in this short and simple animated history documentary.
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Into the Tiger's Den: Japan and the Tripartite Pact, 1940 by Jeremy A. Yellen
I have always enjoyed the deep irony of the fact that, when Japan sponsored a meeting of leaders from the nations of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, in 1943, deep in to the war, its sessions had to conducted in English because that was the only language everybody spoke.
Oh the irony. I watched the zelenskeyy address to Canada today, it's crazy to me (English af) they flow between French and English so fluidly.
@@hiigara2085 yeah Canada has two national languages. All of our websites and government services provide French and English versions along with some businesses too.
This kind of reminds me of a story I heard... So during the war, a German U-Boot was going to meet some Japanese ships, and the German captain couldn't be arsed to make a proper speech of welcome because he didn't think the Japanese would understand it anyway. So they met, and the German captain greeted the Japanese, yelling pompously: "Einundzwanzig! Zweiundzwantig! Dreiundzwanzig!" to which the Japanese captain answered, equally pompously: "Vierundzwanzig! Fünfundzwanzig! Sechsundzwanzig!"
@@jannepeltonen2036 Ok that's actually pretty hilarious
@@jannepeltonen2036 what does that mean?
Japan : *fights to not become american puppet*
1945 : *gets puppeted*
Uno reverse card
Dread it... Run from it.... Destiny still arrives.
1946*
Except they didn’t get puppeted.
@@lordrhino7026 well they kinda did, they got puppeted for their own good, if their politics were not influenced they would have easily become a emperor state like it was before and I'm pretty sure the people of Japan are pretty pleased with how it all turned out because they are pretty wealthy now.
Britain was condemning Japan on building an empire while sitting on top of India
India was a goldmine for England. The huge population and raw materials... Can you imagine modern India under UK control? Wow... The gdp...
@@angelamagnus6615 I really can’t. The war shattered the UK’s ability to control its colonies and broke the Empire. The Suez crisis only further confirmed that the UK was a world power no more, subservient to the United States. Besides, didn’t India’s GDP surpass the UK’s a year ago? With the way the UK is going, what with Brexxit and all that, things are only about to get worse.
Colonialism is a bit of a crapshoot - it works well for a country as long as it has the military resources to maintain it, but it's not very sustainable long term. If Britain had given the US and India representation there might have been a Great Britain hemisphere at this point.
The US is sort of making this mistake with some of the places it's controlling, which might end up costing it.
@@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv Britain has overtaken India again in the GDP. There was a slim possibility of the UK forming an Imperial Federation with its Empire and it was even expected as the future before the war. I do agree that Britain was Shattered after the war but they were in no way subservient to the Americans who they often had disagreements with. Britain I believe would still class as a major power today yet it is among the weakest of them.
@Bul Thaosen The reason that Britain fell behind is due to the pandemic. Although Britain's economy will eventually be overtaken by India it is for now much more capable of taking hits and bouncing back then India's economy. The UK is not really a declining power and the notion that France pulls more weight in any way(political,economical or militarily) is absurd. I do agree that Germany is for now more important then the UK it is tied down politically(trying to control the EU) and militarily(restrictions on its military) and is due to be overtaken economically by 2050. The UK may be overtaken by India in influence yet it is slowly becoming more dominant than its European neighbours.
"outsourced a naval war to Japan" that line is absolutely fantastic. This channel is so great.
@Kristopher Prime Well, Japan had advanced submarine tech, and Germany had advanced tank tech. So it sounds like a good idea to me.
Right after that is the line from the Kamikaze failed video
"This preparation and love for Japan wasn't enough to get them to introduce their face to the deck of a American warship"
That got me thinking what if Japan and Germany teamed up to take over Europe first. With the both Japan and Germany attacking Britain, it would probably have fallen. Navy was Germany Achilles heel, well besides their lack of oil. But their alliance wasn't really that strong, they had common interests but weren't gonna bend over backwards for each other. Plus the distance between them would create huge logistical problems but assume they are supplied good enough from Germany. And if Italy was worth a shit. Could've been real bad if they prepared a bit better
@@robertandrews6915 I have been thinking, what if Germany had brokered a peace agreement with Netherlands, where part of the peace agreement was that Dutch East India would sell oil to Japan. Then Japan would have had the oil they needed, and could have joined Germany's attack on USSR, rather than decide to attack USA.
Then USSR would have been attacked from both sides, and USA would probably have been kept out of the war.
That could have changed things quite dramatically.
@@Tjalve70 with what money though?
Japan: *doesnt want to become an American puppet*
*joins axis*
*loses war and becomes American puppet*
Well... shit.
*Introduces anime*
We play the long game
Congratulations, you played yourself.
Japan: *doesnt want to become an American puppet
*
*joins axis
*
*loses war and becomes American nuke testing field*
@@totallynotalpharius2283 Weebs and Logan Paul: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*
OOPS!!!
Just gonna say it: "Axis" is far more easy to pronounce than "Allies" when you have a Japanese accent. They joined the Axis for linguistic reasons
Are you being serious?
There are lots of dumb people
There are also lots of smart people
But there is only one ctasthophe in the world
@@arandomboi7611 Absolutely! We all know that Japan joined the Axis because they knew the Brits and Americans would constantly tease them. If you have to pick a side in a war, pick the team that's easier to pronounce - simple as that! Not some conspiracy theory about "geopolitical goals" BS
@@th3omachos And that is how you know God is merciful
Acsise
Shows Tibet as independent: -150 Social Credit
Well, it is a map from the 1940s. The CCP didn't occupy Tibet until the 1950s.
@@clanpsi I think maybe China says Tibet's always been part of China
just like they say the ocean's always been part of China
@Paff Paff lol the moon's always been part of China
China literally had control and conquered tibet centuries ago. They lost control of it briefly right before communism. Tough shit, they lost the war.
@@clanpsi Tibet has been part of China since the creation of the CCP in 4000BC.
-200 Social credit for historical revisionism.
The amount of foreshadowing in this episode is great. From “they didn’t want to be under American control” to “lest they become a mere puppet.”
The similarities are hard to ignore.
It's funny how their bad decisions only turned them into what they were the most afraid of being turned into. Kinda sad, in a way
"Japan thought that the UK and US were working on a Anglo-American cultural hegemony"
Glad that didn't happen ha ha ha......
@Stephen Jenkins But what would stop the Soviet Union from forcing its will on the world once they eventually created there own Nuclear weapons?
@@brandonlyon730 Its fatally flawed economic policies.
@@peteranderson037 Not after millions die of prosecution.
@@benjaminchooby6760 The US wasn't isolationist but it didn't really intervene in events around the world unless it had some sort of effect on the US.
@@brandonlyon730 well maybe germany but no wait everybody hated them aswell
0:08 you had to do my boi Mussolini like that
Gave me a good chuckle
Tnx
Mussolini is your boi
Yes
I didn't even notice him xd
😂😂I'm drunk as shit and laughed my ass of. Thank you!
0:06
German Army (Beast of Europe)
Japanese Army (Beast of Asia)
Italian Army (Joke of WW2)
😂😂😂😂😂
I mean, they got parts of africa
Japanese Navy instead of Japanes Army would fit better.
Teutonic Knight No. Their infantry was tough as nails and fought diligently. If this were not the case then they wouldn't have swept all of Southeast Asia from European colonizers.
eUroPe’S sOfT uNdErBeLlY
I've always wanted to see Hitler crowned "Miss War Winner 1940" with such a gorgeous sash. Thanks HM!
Germany: Trying to take over the world, need friends.
Italy: Trying to take over the world, need friends.
Japan: Trying to take over the world, need friends.
EDIT: These responses really don't understand the Bill Wurtz reference, huh?
USA: Trying to take over the world, need friends
@@nathanielbekti7709 , Isn't there a quote that any alliance not made to take over the world is useless?
@@nathanielbekti7709 at least we act like we care and give aid
literally none of them wanted to take over the world, people have such a childlike take on WW2
@@667Agent ''Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
'' Adolf Hitler.
Well, good that a global anglo-american cultural hegemony *didn't* happen
It’s either that or Soviet Hegemony.
@@brandonlyon730 10/10 would prefer Soviet
@@brandonlyon730 wait at one time german hegemony was also a thing. i mean no GB no 2 Front war and thus no Stalingrad disaster
@@Birkebeiner1066 why exactly?
Soviet hegemony would be ultra alcoholic and probably 30 years delayed in technology. German hegemony would probably be all Christianity and a rather cold society, maybe slightly more advanced though. Best would obviously be the Italian one. Just look at the video of an Italian man freaking out about no pasta at the super market.
"There was a strong belief that Britain and America were trying to build an Anglo-American hegemony across the world"
Yeah good thing we never tried to do that, right? Right?
Completely ignoring that said world order was only possible because of WW2 overturning the old order and creating a global void.
Pantzbucket which ironically came from japan attacking the US.
@@deprogramm have you ever heard of the British Empire, sir?
@@Wanderer628 not really,which old order?BRITAIN and france?and the US had a rising economy at that time right?so it was going to happen anyway.
Who's we? You're a puppet yourself.
Japan, Germany and Italy had common ground in that they were (semi) great powers that lacked any significant colonies. The fact that most of the western powers had repeatedly sided against Japan whenever they tried to gain colonial territories of their own made the axis obvious bedfellows for the militarists in Tokyo. I don't think there was a real concern about Germany occupying the various asian colonies as the armies were needed in europe, not to mention the fact that the axis navies were trapped in the Baltic and Mediterranean seas respectively, so sending troops and supplies to that region was logistically infeasible.
From a German perspective, ceding these potential territories to Japan made sense because they couldn't project their power there at the time anyway, while having Japan take British Malaya and Burma while threatening India and Australia created a second front against the British, not to mention the potential for a future joint invasion of Russia.
Japan: *Joins Axis to prevent becoming an American puppet*
Also Japan: *loses and gets occupied by America*
Japanese Imperialists: :o
:/
we'rr cucked
@Stephen Jenkins LOL
burger tier comment
every single person with common since wishes only the worst to the US
sense i mean
@Stephen Jenkins t. brainwashed burger
@@fingerstyledojo Shut the hell up weeb.
"Miss War Winner 1940". A classic.
The GEACPS comment nearly killed me. The change in tone and how it came out of nowhere.... This channel is ridiculously hilarious.
Japan was also affected by the treaty of Versailles where they were kind of deceived by the Allies in the fact that they were not able to get what they wanted and they were left aside. That is also something to take in consideration
Did the treaty of Versailles did ever anything good? Was there at least one single country happy with it? Because apparently everyone was annoyed by it, even the winners.
Well, at least they werent screwed over as much as China at Versailles
Japan only lost about 300 troops in combat in WWI and they were allowed to keep all the German colonies they conquered including German colonies in China (despite China actually being an entente nation in WWI). Additionally Japanese manufacturing saw a massive boom and significant economic growth. Japan benefited a great deal from WWI even if they didn't get everything they wanted in the treaty of Versailles.
Japan didn't comply with the so-called minimum/maximum rules on naval ship cannons too. Simply put the treaty was useless.
Japan getting upset over the treaty of Versailles is like someone getting upset in EU4 because they didn’t get everything they wanted in a peace deal, despite having 2% war participation.
Adviser: "Germany is a threat to our plans. We need to deal with them."
Japanese leader: "Hmm... I have an idea. We could... _ally_ with them."
Japan sure is great at excelling in novelty.
Romania did the same thing actually.
I suppose that is a novelty.
It's not really a novelty, it's just opportunism.
Germany's meagre pacific colonies were divided up among the winning side after WW1. Germany was focused on dominating Europe anyway. Japan offerring to strip Germany's enemies of their pacific rim colonies is a pretty good offer, surely.
Well, you know what they say: if you can't beat'em...
The threat of the USSR was an ideological one. Japan wasn't threatened by a powerful rival, but by a spread of anti-imperialist communism into their imperial colony in Korea. They knew that the spread of communism across Asia was an ideological threat to their plans for further imperial expansion.
It's why they were part of the anti-comintern in the first place.
The great irony of which is that the communists in China probably wouldn't have obtained control over the country if Japan had never invaded.
Did um, did you miss the 5000 tanks on the border of Japan’s mainland territories? They were always concerned of the Russians taking influence over China
Japan: We fear that Germany who doesn't own a Navy would take Indochina for their own, Let us join them and so we could take these land by ourselves
Also Japan: Yeah, let's invade Indochina when the Allies who does own a Navy are still controlling them
Damn if German Navy was just large in numbers like in WW1 with WW2 technology they would act so good against Royal Navy of WW2 which was smaller than Royal Navy of WW1 in tonnage and number of ships.
@@erichvonmanstein1952 Germany started ww2 too early. The Navy was not ready and still in production. If they've waited a bit longer, they would've crushed the Royal Navy and the US Navy into dust.
@@angriboi a complete fallacy, the Us built the largest navy the world had ever seen. It out produced the entire Axis from food, raw materials, to guns, to trucks, to medical supplies, to planes, to ships, to tanks, and had gained a technological superiority. They were only breaking even with the British Empire, China, and the USSR for which they still couldn't defeat even when you take away all the support the US gave.
@@angriboi Britain had the world's best navy. Their ships were more technologically advanced than anyone else' and had better training than anyone else.
@@erichvonmanstein1952 Battleships were obsolete by WWII. Having five Bismarcks would not have won the war for Germany. Germany needed more electric U-boats, not expensive surface ships that can be destroyed by a few tallboy bombs or disabled by a Swordfish's torpedo.
Germany: how can things get any worst?
Japan: I bombed pearl harbor.
Germany: what the fu--
And then Hitler declared war on the US for the lols ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
These memes are unaccurate Hitler actually wanted Japan to strike US
菊行條野 yeah, but that turned out to be a mistake
@Höðr Except that Hitler was a dumbass and didn't care.
Jim Belushi: Germany bombed Pearl Harbor
Do a "Fun Fact: No" compilation
The thing I love about this is it gets straight into action. Just the facts. No meandering introductions, build up, adverts or tangents.
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Hindsight is always 20-20.
One could say the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 started a chain of events that led to landing on the moon. If that is the slant on things you wish to take.
The irony is that for a while between WW1 and WW2, Germany sold A LOT of weapons to China and even gave them training in hiw to use them, which ended up making the job of Japan a lot harder when they tried to take over China. Japan was still able to defeat Chinese forces, but it was much harder and resukted in Japan holding on to a lot less of China than they would have liked.
when China was a part of "the allied forces' there was a time where chinese soldiers were wearing german helmets. would have been crazy to see an allied chinese guy fighting the japanese in a stahlhelm
3:01 why is there a Hospitallier? (he do be lookin kinda fresh doe)
Literally just noticed that before reading your comment. Wonder why he slipped it in lol
My first guess is because of the word "summarize" as the Hospitaller's cross looks a bit like a plus sign which denotes sums. Might be too far-fetched though.
Maybe new video on it a possible hint
man got some nice 11th century drip
I guess it's an indiana jones and the last crusade reference, summarizing the reasons for their choice but highlighting that they "chose poorly"
It amazes me how they always forget one of the major dishonor that was made to Japan.
Japan fought in the triple entente during the first world war. But when the conference that would give huge amounts of money in war reparations to France and England was held, Japan was treated like nobody.
If Japan wanted to earn the respect of Wetstern countries, it should be by the way of arms.
The end of the first world war was the breeding ground for the second. Firstly, German war reparations caused a terrible economic crisis and consequently the rise of the Nazi party. Secondly, Western countries despised Japan, turning an ally into an enemy.
Unlike Britain and France, Japan didn't make any sacrifices in WW1 though - the opposite in fact because it acquired a bunch of German East Asian territory for basically no cost. Japan was treated badly after WW1, but not in terms of reparations. It was more the insult over the racial equality clause in the Versailles treaty which alienated them. Also reparations did not significantly damage Germany economically - they were used as propaganda to encourage people to turn to Nazism. Reparations were much more insulting to German pride than damaging to German wallets.
Another example of this was your Japanese Russo war with Russia where Japan suffered great casualties and gain very little territory.
@@Lamartine111 what your painting as a simple fact is far more complicated then what you seem to make it out to be. The reparations were huge even by today's standards, and Germany had just lost a war that had devastated it's economy. That being said, economists to this day debate if Germany could've repaid those reparations. Also if it was Nazi propaganda then why would other nations agree to renegotiate them later on during the 1920's in the Locarno pact or with the Young plan? No where near as simple as you paint it to be.
You think that's bad? They gave German-occupied Chinese territory to Japan instead of returning it to China, and these internal discontent with that was used by both the KMT and communists to rile up the citizenry. It's still a major factor in how Chinese people see the west now. Japan literally didn't do anything during WW1, they were opportunists who used the fact that the allies hated Germany to go steal Germans' Pacific territories and expand their own empire, they contributed basically nothing to the actual fighting. Why would they be expected to be given anything?
Japan was nobody in WW1. Are you freaking kidding me? All they did was steal some German supplies and lands thousands of miles away from the actual war and bully China. That's really mostly all Japan is good for: bullying Asian countries and stealing stuff.
Brief, informative, and interesting. Good job.
When you watch his videos so much that you memorized most of the patreons at the end
They are definitely getting their money's worth!
Not really, I just stop video and look at comments then done thing
0:57
Big boys of Japan
Hirohito (Emperor)
Hideki Tojo (Head of the Army) (Right)
Fumimaro Konoe (Prime Minister) (Left)
Hirohito had no power
@@xanshen9011 even with no power, how much did Tojo have respect for the emperor position?
@@xanshen9011 He did during the pre-1945 era
Nuuknein Mapping No, he was just a puppet. The one who really ran things was Tojo.
@@xanshen9011 The historians still try to figure out if he was really a puppet or not, because the American government said he was a puppet, but some documents seems to confirm that he gave his approval to most projects
Japan: Yo germany guess what?
Germany: What?
Japan: I just bombed American warships in pearl harbour
Germany: *Blitzkreig Stops*
I read that last line in the tune of blitzkrieg bop
Well if you think about it, nothing particularly changed for Germany when the US entered the war, the US was already supporting Germany's enemies with the Lend Lease, the US Navy was already protecting non american ships from the U-boats and american volunteers specially the air force were already fighting the Luftwaffe, so when Japan attacked, it forced the US to first fight and therefore concentrate ressources on Japan instead of Europe, actually helping Germany in Russia. Only after two years were Germany cound't take the Soviets out, and Japan lost multiple battles againts the allies, the US had enough ressources to open a new front in Europe, but by then it was obvious that the Axis had lost a long time ago and were only continuing the total war, as surrender was not an option.
Ginja Ninja: the U.S caused Germany’s defeat
40 million dead soviet that died in the eastern front: *cute.*
@@fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113 Germany was never a naval power in the region, Britian held that title with their fleets and aircraft carrier not to mention Britain itself being the largest airfield north of mainland Europe. If anything Germany had the Bismarck; while Japan revolutionized carrier warfare and were masters of it. German fleet would fair better along side the IJN in the Pacific.
@@joaoostroski4778 More casualties =/= More credit.
It's good that this was kept short and sweet. Other videos like this would be like half an hour or more long and come to the same conclusion
"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." -Master Oogway
1:25 Oh the ironnyyyy
yea i felt said for that part
What
I mean the Anglo-American Hegemony wasn’t wrong.
The Korean people would probably prefer that compare to living under the Japanese that feared the very Hegemony.
@@brandonlyon730 I think they'd simply prefer no hegemony.
@@nathanielbekti7709 True, but even today in the two Korea’s they both hate Japan more then anyone else for what they did to them as a colony.
@@brandonlyon730 i dunno, i think one of those Koreas definitely hates the US more if not the most, lollll.
It was a fight for the world, literally
You have quickly become my favorite TH-camr. Thank you.
2:43 Japan: GEACPS
Western guy: Are you _sure_ about this?
I think an overlooked point why Japan hated the Allies is that during the Treaty of Versaille, Japan proposed a "racial equality" bill that was put down. Funnily enough, it was not France nor the UK that shot it down, but Wilson himself under the influence of the Australians among others. That and the US coming to "protect" the Phillipines was seen as a clear attempt from them (for Japan) to form their own Pacific Colonial Empire. The US Oil embargo was only the last straw.
This is the part they don't want to include in these history lessons 😅
"List of dumb ideas: YOURS"
I gotta' use that some time.. xD
I think there is a point here you may have missed. There was a war In the 19th century between China and Japan, the First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 1894 - 17 April 1895), which Japan won. The problem for Japan was that it was pressurised by western powers into relinquishing the territory it had captured. This left the Japanese feeling they were being discriminated against as the Boxer Rebellion (1899 and 1901), which America took part in, has resulted in western countries gaining influence in China.
So when the same thing happened again with America the Japanese decided they were not going to bow to the pressure a second time.
Great video! I'd never thought about Germany taking the French and Dutch SE Asian possessions.
Gotta give Japan props for having the political and economic chops to anticipate the formation of a global Anglo-American hegemony.
Hitler and Mussolini would've laughed at the idea of such a thing coming to pass.
Not only did it come to pass, it's still alive and well.
I love these videos. They're educational and fun to watch.
Not fun in the 1940s
Your videos are always great!
Thx for getting to the point to my (and probably everyone else's) question, short and sweet just how I like it👍
What if you did a "Why didn't the United States take over the rest of Mexico in the Mexican-American War?"
Way to much Mexicans and Catholics for them
For many reasons:
1. It’s an insane amount of territory and population so it would’ve been an administrative nightmare.
2. The population’s south of Texas are all high populations of majority Mexican Catholic’s so there would’ve been a large culture divide between the Mexican people and the American’s causing unrest and constitutional rights would be in question as well as citizen status with the conquered people compared to the more remote territories in California, Arizona, New Mexico, etc.
3. The biggest one was the Slave debate. At that time the Missouri compromise was still in effect which means that any state below Missouri were entitled to be a slave state which would apply to all of modern day Mexico. The slave debate was a huge deal at that time and there was fear in the free states that by taking all of Mexico would mean the south would now have an overwhelming political advantage in congress as well as risking enslavement of the Mexicans.
Too much AE
@@yincosare You mean infamy, this is Victoria 2’s time period.
Gregorio Mondragon too much overextension too
Although a major reason why Japan didn't join the Axis earlier was that when Germany signed a non-aggression pact with the USSR and Japan felt mildly betrayed by this because they had been engaged in an unofficial war with the Soviets on the Manchurian and Mongolian frontiers....
I remember I did my secondary school history thesis on this so it's really cool that you did a video on it
i just found this channel a few weeks ago. i love it
Your voice is really cool, I don't know the exact word for this. . it's not exactly accent but the accent plus the clarity of your speech.
Nice.
I have one thing to say: I love your videos, Sir.
I concur!
Thank you for video sir
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Awesome video! TY
GEACP sounds like an Irish Gaelic word that died and was brought back as a zombie.
It doesn't sound anything like Irish lol. Maybe Scots Gaelic or Welsh, I wouldn't know about those.
I thought the pact was more like "you do you, we'll do us and we'll meet somewhere in the middle".
Great video!
This angle regarding Japan and it's desired EACoPS is very interesting. I had not looked at it from this perspective before. It makes sense. Good job.
Hitler's "miss war winner" sash is one of the best things I've seen in a long time, had ne cracking up 😂
Hey history matters youre one of my favorite youtubers
Totally
Interesting topic. It was always very unclear to me, thanks.
This video helped me with an 1000 essay I had barely started and have to hand in tomorrow and for that I am eternally grateful
"There was a strong belief in Japan that Britain and America were trying to build an Anglo-American cultural and economic hegemony across the world."
Glad those worries were unfounded.
1:31 - 1:32 Did you mean... *Freedonia?*
0:14 Also, where's that corn pipe for my boi Gen. Douglas "Counter-Snipe with my pipe" MacArthur?
I thought the same when I saw McArthur lol
Why do I love these animations so much 😭, could you make a few videos including Canada in world war 1 and 2? Possibly feudal (boshin war) Japan?
Never thought about this. Thanks .
That "Miss War Winner, 1940" sash made my day. :)
Can you please make some more "But fun fact: No" mugs?
I always wondered about this topic and never looked it up
Wow. Awesome. Thanks!
HoI4 players: *Uhhh, actually...*
One big reason was the economic embargo the US had put in Japan and this is an embargo that existed BEFORE the US put the full oil embargo. Japan would buy a lot of metals, scrap metal, spare parts and other materials for their war effort from the US but the US stopped that when the war in China was going in Japan's favor. When Japan stationed troops in Indochina (modern day vietnam, laos, cambodia) that US put an oil embargo and this meant that Japan had a few months of oil reserves before they ran out so they decided to stage a full attack on Pearl Harbor. A thing to note is that up until the oil embargo the Navy was against war but once the oil embargo happened the Navy supported war.
I love the maps and borders you use in your videos. They are so accurate to the time related about, specially in this case, you even put Zara/Zadar in the Italy map. Like, none I've seen cares about a little Italian dot in the middle of Dalmatia, excepto for you of course. Merci beaucoup for that effort, accuracy and quality
Que haces aca judío
Y usté????
Ayudando a la destruir a los jugos
Pensé que eras partidario de los patapons, veo que no es así
I love it!!
0:46 (Making friends) .... that´s the best part!
the real war was the friends we made along the way
this is a great video because: you think you know, but you don't until you watch
it's odd how the Soviet Union was between Germany and Japan, who were allies, yet they proved completely unable to coordinate their policies toward it, and in some sense didn't really try
Extreme over-simplification.
Because why japan do not attack ussr when nazi invade usse before start of world war 2 when Japanese start invasion on china japan start fight ussr in battle of khalkhin gol but japanese army got defeat because of that they sign non aggression pact and at time japan army already over china ,south east asia and pacific ocean they already start losing territory from Allies
You know, couldn’t you have made this video just a little bit sooner?! I just had to do a presentation on exactly this for school!
You deserve a million subs
Last time I was this early, Japan was still on the Allies side!
You know mans got content when I watch the video before I get the TH-cam notification
Stable video👍
That one sparks joy. 👍
Get this game running dudes.
Have you ever considered making a video about the naval battles of ww1?
Nothing special imagine Napoleonic naval combat just with juicy Dreadnoughts.
1:22 that kind of happened.
In Germany too (unfortunately)
@@kaanrivis why ? Isn't Germany one of the wealthiest countries in the world ? (And Japan as well now that I think about it.)
@@meandmetoo8436 There is more to life than the material my friend.
@@StratMan9009 wealth gives security.
Only once you're sure all your relatives (and you) are safe can you truly enjoy freedom. A rich van decide to live a minimalistic life, a poor has to.
@@meandmetoo8436 The material decadence that American hegemeony has brought has not made the world a happier place. By every societal metric in countries dominated by the American system people are having less kids, are on more anti depressants, are fatter, feel less connected to their neighbors and friends as far as they have any and overall view the world through an increasingly selfish and nihilistic lens. The human spirit is being sapped and gutted by this soulless system that only cares about how high the stocks can climb. Freedom is overrated. At least the version that we have now. If it wasn't then people would be happier and our societies healthier.
2:03 Good on this lad for putting a tokarev in the video
You should make action figures with your animation style. They'd look awesome!
0:51 how basically all of my class feels about our math teacher.
One thing I never see anyone mentioning about the axis powers is that none of them had any access to resources. On the other hand you had the UK, France and the US with their colonial empires with plenty of manpower and resources to establish themselves as the ruling powers of the time.
I understand the victors write history but it'd be interesting to study the axis as something more than just a reductive description as the evil ones.
I think the Axis Powers ought to be recognized as a cautionary tale about forming an alliance of nations lacking strategic resources to fuel their ambitions against every major power which possesses those resources. You may have early success due to better preparedness but you are looking at an uphill battle the entire way as you must successfully seize the resources you covet, convert facilities to produce them, and finally establish the logistics to apply it to your war effort. It’s much easier said than done, especially if you’ve been relying on foreign expertise beforehand. Gains that may be achievable in months may take years to see substantial results.
Japanese really wanted that Equality Rule which the Allies didn't.
Subtitles would be great. I like your content. Thank you.
I like it when the box people point at things
When the Teacher is pressuring you. So you befriend the Teacher's Pets
*Weebo Noises*
I love how I learn about history while getting a good laugh. "GEACPS".
nice planning
Your voice makes my speakers sound like they're vibrating.
A few video ideas:
- How advanced was metallurgy in Pre-Colonial America?
- Why did Greenland or Iceland never try to secede from Denmark?
- The Conquest of Siberia
- The Taiping Rebellion
- Why did Simon Bolivar's dream of a united Latin America never come to fruition?
Well the first one is easy. It was behind the old world. Although, keep in mind that was due more to the old world having technically have about a 3,000 year head start due to rivers civilizations developing while the oldest large sc addxle organized society in America developed in what was basically a rainforest.
Also, Eurasia had horses and a semi-easy to travel plain that lead to calm seas and natural habits on one end and a very fertile easily defended landmass on the other.
Information spreader fast.
Sorry I meant behind the old world.
I want the last one, I know some about it cause I'm peruvian and we were extremely against it but Peru probably wasnt the only reason
In regards to your question about Iceland and Greenland trying to secede from Denmark, their populations are both dwarfed by Denmark’s. It’s a pretty simple answer. They couldn’t raise a big enough resistance, it wasn’t worth the hassle. They couldn’t raise enough money to buy their freedom, either.
@Christian Huaman
Venezuela was against it. The fact is that the political and cultural differences between the countries were greater that the similarities. Under José Antonio Páez, Venezuela separated from Gran Colombia.
Does anybody think about man in the high castle when there’s a conversation about Japan and Germany
Only stupid people who love that show do.
@@attiepollard7847 I'm a cool person, I read the book years ago
@@aaronmarks9366 Is it worth reading?
@@clanpsi It's fairly interesting, but you have to like Philip K. Dick's trippy 1960s sci fi. He spends a lot of pages on the Tagomi character throwing and interpreting the I-Ching oracle sticks for example. Like, a LOT of pages. Worth a read though.
Arigato Jamesu Bisonetoda.
I did a literal LOL when you pronounced GEACPS. Unexpected!
0:06 *Himaruya Hidekaz has left the chat*
Haha I was scrolling down to find a Hetalia related comment, and now here I am lol