Only because they needed an Ally. US was it. US also provided much industrial might for the war. I'm saying, not because they wanted a war,were British glad.
“Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful,” - Winston Churchill in his memoirs about the night of hearing of the attack. The only piece of the puzzle missing for the UK that night was war between the US and Germany, which Hitler stupidly gave as a gift a few days later. Because when you already have a two front war with multiple nations...why not go nuts and add another?
‘dolf was encouraged in such line of thinking by the rabidly anti-British 🇺🇸 CNO King who wanted to prioritize the Pacific 🥇 His callous hatred resulted in many a merchant seaman of all Allied nationalities to lose their lives, by refusing to organize ships in convoys & blacking out NYC skyline. On the other hand, once into the fight, his tactics & the creation of the shipless 10th Fleet resulted in ubootes never to surface again.
More than this, he believed America to be weak, spoiled, dominated by inferior races, and corrupt; in contrast, he believed Japan to be a nation of great warriors.
@@Primitarian However when the Japanese overran Asia, ‘dolf bemoaned the dethroning of the White man in the East ! In fact he spurned the Japanese military worth before PH. Turned out he was right because his Honor-Aryans disregarded technology & considered modern weapons as only the extension of the Samurai’s sword. Hence their senseless use of cannon fodder. Regarding the 🇺🇸, ‘dolf’s favorite expression was ‘bankers disguised as soldiers’. Well, the Ardennes 1944 taught him otherwise.
You missed the point completely, Germany and Italy did need to declare war on the US because the treaty was only if they were attacked, not if they attacked the US. Germany declared war because Hitler believed that strong nations declared war on other nations first. The US war plans had been leaked days prior to Pearl Harbor and the Germans were reading the articles about it when the bombs started falling on Pearl Harbor.
@@MarkHarrison733 "The German Government, consequently, discontinues diplomatic relations with the United States of America and declares that under these circumstances brought about by President Roosevelt Germany too, as from today, considers herself as being in a state of war with the United States of America." Except, Germany did on December 11th.
@@TheInquisitiveFool-cf6uj The US had declared war when Roosevelt publicly confirmed shoot on sight on 11 September 1941, having lied about the Greer incident.
The US had already committed acts of war on Germany and Roosevelt was pushing the envelope (neutrality) beyond the breaking point. German had not already declared war on the U.S. because without it FDR couldn't be as open in his support of Britain and the USSR. With Japan's attack, it meant the US would have to turn much of it's attention to the Pacific, and that Germany could finally fight back against the guys who had been breaking all the rules to make war on them. That's why Hitler was happy.
One very important but overlooked series of clashes along the Manchurian/ Mongolian borders between Japan and the Soviet Union, known as the battles of Khalkhin Gol, took place from May 11th to September 16th, 1939. The Soviets, along with their Mongolian allies, prevailed over the Japanese and the Kwantung Army. This loss led to the Japanese changing their entire strategy of taking Siberia, including Lake Baikal, and directing the vast majority of military resources to the south. As a result, the Japanese were in no position to help out Germany by invading the Soviet Union from the east. Because of this, Soviet troops that were deployed in the far east were redirected to the west to help fight the Germans. While this battle had taken place prior to the start of WW2, it would end up playing a decisive role in the conduct of the entire war on several fronts. Had the Japanese won this battle, they probably don't attack Pearl Harbor or pursue the southern strategy.
Tension between the US and Japan had been there for decades. Many thought war was inevitable between the two countries. Even if Japan attacked the Soviet Union they would still have the problem of the US. Also you have the cease fire of Sept 14, 1939 and the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact of April 1941 which allowed both countries to focus on other areas, which they both did. A lot of people miss out on the fact that even if Japan had attacked the Soviet Union, it would have only increased tension with the US. Attacking the Soviet Union and you probably still get the US involved, Japan didn't want to fight both countries. And the only way to avoid that was to attack the US, not the Soviets and hope the neutrality pact holds up.
If Japan would've invaded the USSR from the East Hitler would've had a better chance in the west because the Soviet Army would've been fighting a war on 2 fronts.
Yes indeed. That short conflict between Japan and Soviets had major repercussions and should have been mentioned here. Another point is that Japan's refusal to fight the Soviets afterwards should have excused Germany from declaring war on the US. If that happened it might have been difficult to convince Americans to go to war against Germany and WW2 would've instead been 2 seperate large regional conflicts which might have benefited Germany.
@@arkwill14 The US was already at war with Germany in 1940, as Admiral King had confirmed at the time. The US had declared war on Germany on 24 March 1933.
Hitler did not have to declare war on the US. It was a defensive treaty, if Japan was attacked, then Germany would get involved. But Japan attacked and Hitler could have stayed out of it.
"stayed out of it"? -- when it was only the US Navy which was keeping Britain and the USSR going via stupendous Lend-Lease shipments??? By declaring war, Hitler was able to unleash his u-boats and finally start sinking US shipping. And the US Navy had already been depth-charging German u-boats since September 11, 1941 by FDR's executive order.
What is stated at 4:40, that when the U.S. declared war on Japan, Germany had no choice but to declare war on the U.S., is factually incorrect. The terms of the tripartite pact required the signatory nations to declare war on any nations that attacked their fellow signatories, _if that other nation was the aggressor._ It did _not_ require any of the signatories to declare war on another nation, if that nation was attacked _by_ a fellow signatory. In other words, because Japan was the aggressor on December 7, 1941, Japan effectively absolved Germany of any obligation to join in its war on the United States. The same applied in reverse: because Germany attacked the U.S.S.R. on June 22nd, 1941, Japan was under no obligation to join Germany in the war against Russia -- and Japan did not. And later toward the end of the video, the narrator even acknowledges this, so I'm not sure why he made that statement. Hitler made an absolutely fatal miscalculation in declaring war on the United States. If he hadn't done it, prevailing sentiment in the U.S. would have held that the European war was Europe's affair, and our war was in the Pacific. FDR understood the need to defeat Germany, but absent a _casus belli_ he couldn't do much to involve the U.S. in the war in Europe. Hitler handed him one on a silver platter when he declared war on the United States, and thereby ensured that the full might of the world's largest economic and industrial power was devoted, first and foremost, to the defeat of Germany.
Hitler should have ignored Japan and not declared war on the US, after all Japan didn't honor the alliance with Germany and Italy since they didn't attack the Soviet union when operation Barbarossa took place.
@@MarkHarrison733Still, if Japan waited until late '41 after the USSR had stripped it's eastern territories of troops to stop the Germans at the gates of Moscow, German would have likely defeated Russia, and Japan could have shared in the Russian oil fields and iron mines, making the attack on the U.S. unnecessary altogether.
I have always said that Hitler's biggest mistake was not the invasion of Russia but the declaration of war on the US. From there on Nazi Germany's fate was sealed.
Bro FDR had already permitted US ships to fire at german ships before hitler declared war and the US was already escalating. FDR and Hitler both knew FDR was joining, why else would he declare war on the largest economy on earth.
nah, the USA was basically already in war with Germany by 1941. The USA's main contribution to the war was Lend-Lease Act, contrary to what Hollywood wants you to believe... the USA didn't play a major role in combat in the European scenario. The main role of the USA in Europe was being the giant industrial factory and food supplier to the USSR and the British Empire.
Churchill said he slept peacefully for the 1st time in years when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Hitler declared war on America….he knew Americas industrial mastery over the world and realized it would only be a matter of time until Germany and Japan would be defeated.
He was elated that Japan could tie down US and thought Britain will be getting less supplies via Lend Lease. His brief happiness was turned to anger when his generals do not know Pearl harbour 's location.
Correct, My Father was in a coast guard escort ship protecting & surrounding the supply ships to England. They were armed with both depth charges and antiaircraft weapons.
The USA knew that Germany will not declare war against the USA and the Germans said the USA has no place and no right in this war. The reason why Germany declared war against the USA was because the USA provoked Japan. The USA already supported the Communists, so did the British and the French. The British, the USA and the Communists wanted the war.
Didn't the US also secretly blockade Japan from receiving critical resources from overseas? That's why they felt compelled to launch that sneak attack on Pearl Harbor (using a dirty, deplorable, dishonorable diplomatic tactic, though). There was also the Flying Tigers, who were American pilots who secretly flew American fighters against Japan in defense of China. I'm *NOT* siding with Imperial Japan one bit, but facts are facts, and no one was completely innocent and pure here. We messed with Japan (justifiably so) before they messed with us.
@@MB-xe8bb He ran a campaign of lies and won the election partly on the promise of never entering the war. Then he secretly worked against both Germany and Japan, and used the rage of Americans from the attack on Pearl Harbor as justification to break his campaign promises. I'm not trying to single out FDR, since virtually all politicians are filthy liars just like him, but that's what I think happened.
The first convoys with American goods were already being sent to the USSR by August 1941. Shortly afterwards the Axis found out about the convoy routes, and the allies suffered great losses. During the war German submarines and torpedoes sank about 80 cargo ships destined for the USSR.
Hitler was the last chancellor appointed during the Weimar Republic. President von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg had tried every other option, but the other parties didn't realize that keeping Hitler out of office should be their first priority.
Roosevelt knew about the attack, the US government let the attack happened, they knew this would be the justification to rally all of America against the axis, japan was never the real target, it was always Germany
Correction on the Weimar Republic: it did not "collapse in 1933 and Hitler stepped in." Hitler was chosen as chancellor, and simply ramped up the already existing trend of shifting power from parliament to the head of government. There never was an "offical" switch from "Weimar Republic" (which isn't even an offical designation) to "Third Reich". Sure, there were massive changes and restrictions to the original 1919 constitution, but that was never abolished or replaced. Based on international law, there was just one "Deutsches Reich" from 1919 onwards. Even after the end of the war, this international entity was not questioned... the official line in western Germany was that the FRG was not the successor, but the continuation of the old state with a new political system and name.
What are you talking about? Germany didn't "accept responsibility for WW1 as a whole", it was forced to sign that document, in which it is stated that Germany was alone GUILTY for starting WW1.
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The winner of all conflicts judges and edits all conflicts . Rewrites time frames , events, and causes and effects.. absconding with all data that paints any negativity toward them. By no means is this an attack on the United States but a quick overview of the nature of beast of war . All winners of conflicts practice this to what degree is subjective the conflict.
@@johnmorales7057 It depends on how far the lie is spread, for how long and the depth of it. Secondly, people will begin to doubt the lies and begin to unearth the truth. Or at least to show the other side of the medal.
You cannot compare the depression in the US to what Germany was experiencing in the 1920s. Germany was absolutely DEVASTATED by the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was blamed for a war they did not start.
Germany was devastated by all the money they printed during WW1, even before they signed the Treaty of Versailles. It was just a matter of time before the citizens realized the currency had been permanently damaged from the war.
@@Daniel-sh3osthat was a result of the Weimar republic, something most of the german people did not really want to begin with, and half the reason hitler came to power so easily. The Weimar was a radical, ultra-liberal party essentially dedicated to the degeneration of german life post-versailles treaty, many of whom where of jewish ethnicity - another big reason antisemitism soared in prussia after the national socialist takeover. You can look up the despicable conditions of german civility under the jurisdiction of the Weimar and see exactly how and why Germany felt increasingly humiliated even after the lunacy of Versailles. The November criminals were a very real and dystopian problem to the lives of prussian peoples.
The Americans promised the British their inclusion in the war on their side if attacked by the Japanese. The Japanese attacked the British at Koda Bahru 45 minutes ahead of their attack on Pearl Harbor.
Tripartite Pact was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 when Germany and Italy were already at war with Britain. Did Japan declare war on Britain in 1940 ?
America was supporting Britain in the European war (again!) even before the Destroyers for Bases Agreement of 1940 and the Lend-Lease Act or early 1941.
The United States had declared war on Germany on 24 March 1933. Admiral King had confirmed in 1940 that the US was already actively at war. Roosevelt declared war when he publicly confirmed shoot on sight on 11 September 1941, having lied about the Greer incident.
@@MarkHarrison733 Wall Street can't declare war. Only Congress can do it. Roosevelt had the support of Congress to make declaration of war on Japan for obvious reasons, but he certainly couldn't do it against Germany. Yes, German U-boats were sinking merchant vessels from US to England but we had not considered an act of war.
There was probably a time we could have found the answer to that question, but with so much obfuscation of history (particularly anything pertaining the Hitler and Nazis) we've probably missed our chance.
It was allowed to happen. Reports of the fleet were told to be ignored. There are books on this. Only way for Roosevelt to get his war and support from a neutral public.
That’s not entirely accurate. They thought the attack would happen but it would be at the Philippines not Pearl Harbor. You got to remember the US didn’t know small planes could sink battleships yet so they thought Pearl Harbor untouchable.
That really doesn't make sense. If FDR knew it was about to happen, wouldn't it have been wiser to have the US forces at Pearl Harbor fully alerted, and able to minimise the effect of any attack? Surely you don't think that a failed Japanese surprise attack would have caused less anger?
One thing that is always overlooked is that Japan went out of its way to not help Germany against the USSR. Japan tiptoed around them the entire war until they attacked the IJA in Manchuria in August, 1945. Hitler could have easily used this as justification for not declaring war and thus not further enrage an already apoplectic American people. That he did, while being part of a treaty that did basically nothing for Germany, shows how poor of an understanding of foreign policy he had. He was far from the expert that he held himself as.
Japan did have a neutrality pact with the Soviets. And remember, the treaty between Japan and Germany said if attacked, not if they go attacking. Which technically Germany didn't have to declare war on the US either as Japan attacked the US. And Germany attacked the Soviet Union which meant Japan wasn't treaty bound to join in on that war.
@@MarkHarrison733 The Soviet Japanese Neutrality Pact was signed in April 1941, a bit hard to break in 1940 if it didn't exist. What source do you have that Germany didn't declare war on the US? I'm curious because you can read the text of the declaration delivered by Ribbontorp to Leland Morris, highest US official in Germany all over.
@@rizon72 The US was already at war with Germany in 1940, as Admiral King had confirmed at the time. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed in August 1939. Stalin broke the pact on 28 June 1940.
It is worth mentioning that the Japanese had signed a non aggression pact with the Soviets, after losing the battle of Khalkin Gol in 1939. Hitler wanted the japanese to expand and attack the Soviets in the East, but the Japanese honored the non aggression pact.
@@MarkHarrison733 The Japanese were fighting one of the biggest armys in the world in China. I doubt they had the manpower to add the Soviets to their list of enemies as they were now fighting the Americans and the British. They also needed men to secure land they had taken.
@@McDago100 it was the amount of trucks required to invade Siberia was far beyond what Japan had, or could even produce. Had nothing to do with the Chinese, who the Japanese were absolutely devastating. But, you're right about one thing, once Japan declared war on USA and Britain, yes, all the soldiers and equipment of Kanto-gun (Kwangtung Army) were rapidly depleted and sent elsewhere in Asia.
Hitler was not elated but he did think the US would be more involved against Japan than Europe. The trade embargos by the US on Japan made the Pearl Harbor attack almost inevitable. FDR had been pressuring Japan economically for some time. Classic example of FAFO.
It's my understanding that for many years, the Soviet's had troops on the border of Manchuria to counter the Japanese. When the Japanese went to war with the US, their troops were moved to fight Western powers. That freed the experienced Soviet troops to move against the Germans, the opposite of what Hitler wanted, although, he may not have seen that at the time.
@@wjckc79, although I don't support the Russians today, there is no doubt most of the victory in the west in WW2 was earned by them. I believe they had three to four times the killed and wounded.
Apparently 40 divisions of Soviet Siberian troops were freed up to send West. First I read about this was about 40 years ago in the Herman Wouk docunovel - The Winds of War.
There was an undeclared war between Japan and the USSR and Mongolia that culminated in the battle of Khalkin Gol (March - August 1939) where Japan was decisively defeated. After that victory the Soviets moved those 40 divisions west to Europe starting in September of 1939. Some of the troops actually walked from Siberia to Europe. Pearl Harbor attack wasn't until December of 1941 so the sequence of events does not support your theory.
Actually he didn't for whatever reason, didn't seem to really appreciate the capabilities of the US in a total war mindset. Pretty spectacular misread really, but little he could do as they were pretty much bound by treaty to respond in Japans aid whatever his feelings. The military leadership below him however seems to have understood it quite well.
@@mathompson53187 Germany was not obligated to come to the aid of Japan because the Tripartite pact only made Germany commit to a declaration of war ONLY IF JAPAN WAS ATTACKED. Japan was not attacked.
One thing you glossed over was that Japan engaged in open conflict wth the US on 12 December 1937 when Japanese warplanes engaged in open combat upon the gunboat USS Panay, sinking her and three Standard Oil tankers in the Yangtze River, one day before Japanese forces came into Nanking/Nanjing and commenced a six-week slaughterfest which resulted in the deaths of over 300,000 Chinese civilians. Roosevelt demanded an apology and the Japanese government paid over $4 million dollars for the damages. The Panay Incident could have brought these two nations to war, but it didn't. It should also be noted that the Japanese also attacked British gunboats on the same day as well. Hitler became aware of the Nanking Massacre by way of several officers stationed in that city, as well as telegrams from John Rabe, a loyal Nazi who helped rescue hundreds of civilians from the Japanese and begged Hitler to intervene. What makes this story even crazier is that Chiang Kai-Shek was entertaining an alliance with Hitler, possibly because of the civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists that started in 1927 where he could have used his assistance, but once Japan entered the picture in 1931 beginning with token warfare and culminating in the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 is when we start to see a different picture regarding how Chiang's China started to veer from a possible alliance with Nazi Germany and slowly side with America and Britain which is for another chapter of World War 2. p.s. - I wish you had used clips from Tora!Tora!Tora! alongside Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, even though the latter film's technology is more updated than the one from 1970 in several spots.
You are leaving out the series of embargos the US had put on Japan to force them to give up the lands they had occupied. This included scrap steel and most importantly, crude oil.
@@TrumpFacts-wl2ik Clumsiness on my part - the contributions from the other countries of the Empire were significant in terms of material, manpower and morale. Mea Culpa.
The main reason why we had no choice but to ally with Britain is because we shifted our Navy to the Pacific after we gained Hawaii and The Philippines. This put us on a collision course with Japan, and therefore we relied on the Royal Navy to help guard the Atlantic. That’s why we were never “neutral” during World War I.
Incorrect. Hitler was ecstatic that the US had broken their treaties of mutual protection with France and the UK, and was even happier that the US was Nazi Germany’s greatest war material supplier/trade partner and held the largest non-German Nazi Party. Hell, industrialists like Henry Ford continued trading with Hitler [i]even after he was at war with the US[/i] and did so until the war’s end. Public knowledge, yet never even paid so much as a fine. And lastly remember that the US’s systemic treatment of native and African-Americans was Hitler’s model for the Holocaust.
@@balancedactguy The US was already at war with Germany in 1940, as Admiral King had confirmed at the time. The US had declared war on Germany on 24 March 1933.
He hadn't been ignoring it, the wolfpack Uboats had been decimating the Atlantic convoys that brought the aid, they just couldn't stop all of it from getting across
When Germany attacked the USSR, Japan did not declare war on the USSR. When Japan attacked the United States, Germany declared war on the United States. They didn't have to as the video pointed out and it was Hitler's hubris that doomed Germany. Had he not declared war, the United States would not have been involved in Europe, the British likely would have had a separate peace with Germany and Germany would have had enough to eventually defeat the USSR or at least gain a lot of land.
Exactly. It wasn't Germany's goals that caused their downfall, but their belief in their own superiority over other countries and their tendency to underestimate their enemies.
@@BlackHoleSoul13 They were running out of oil, so they were basically forced to attack Russia. They underestimated the USSR but it was pretty much do or die regardless. Although also knew they had to win quick or theyd be in trouble, so it wasn't all hubris. If they didn't secure the oil the German economy would collapse, it was either that or go to war. Hitler chose war.
@@jdee8407 I am not sure that I agree with you. Hitler's fate was settled when a bridge head was established at Normandy. A second front was created. I believe that Goering said as much at Nuremberg.
@@antonioacevedo5200 How do you fight an industrial modern war of mobility against the great powers of the world without oil? You need oil for everything, from manufacturing to the mobility of your planes and tanks, to your supply your chain. Germany ran out of its oil reserves at the end of 1941. When Hitler couldn't secure the southern oil fields. It was pretty much just a matter of time. He was basically dead man walking from that point.
It might have come as a shock to Hitler but it certainly wasn't a surprise to the US, who had pushed Japan to war and engineered an attack that they therefore knew was coming.
FDR drew a line in the sand and Japan crossed it bringing embargos backed by Churchill. Churchill Thirdly, the policy to be pursued towards Japan in order, if possible, to put a stop to further encroachment in the Far East likely to endanger the safety or interests of Great Britain or the United States and thus, by timely action, prevent the spreading of the war to the Pacific Ocean. para.2 WAR SITUATION. HC Deb 09 September 1941 vol 374 cc67-156
Japan (Economic Sanctions) Volume 373: debated on Tuesday 5 August 1941 65. Mr. Mander asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will Toggle showing location ofColumn 1792give an assurance that the economic sanctions put into operation in the Far East will so function that oil and other war supplies will in practice, as well as in theory, cease to be available to Japan in respect of the territories of Great Britain, the United States of America and the Netherlands? The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Richard Law) Sharethis specific contribution Consultations with the other Governments concerned regarding the application of the far-reaching financial measures of control which have been introduced are still in progress, and I cannot add anything to the statement which my right hon. Friend made last week. There is no doubt, however, that the operation of these measures is already practical, not theoretical, and that their effect on supplies for Japan will be serious. Mr. Mander Sharethis specific contribution Will the Minister bear in mind that the oil from which this spirit is made should not be permitted to be sent to Japan, as has happened in the past? Otherwise, there is nothing in it. Mr. Law Sharethis specific contribution That point will be borne in mind. Mr. Noel-Baker Sharethis specific contribution Will steps be taken to press upon the United States Government that there is more hope of preventing war in the Far East between Japan and ourselves and America if oil supplies are stopped now? Mr. Law Sharethis specific contribution I am sure that the United States Government, like His Majesty's Government, are fully aware of the situation.
yes, the US had embargos on japan getting oil, and had made it difficult for japan to get resources to fund its war effort, which the US did in part due to japan's effort to torture and enslave the chinese
Saddam Hussein or Kadhafi or Afghanistan, Vietnam etc. did not declare war on the US, still both were attacked by the US. There is an exact pattern of behavier, how the US goas to war in the last 150 years, reagardless if there is a declaration, a provocation or anything like that. There were 100 reasons to go in a war with the Soviet Union in the cold war period, and the US remaind "peacefull". But they attacked Panama, Grenada, the Suez Canal, Yugoslavia (Mexico..etc.etc) if it was necessary. Pearl Habour was a suicide attack from Japane, they had no glue, what they are dealing with. It was not even the US, who "executed" Japane on the continent, but it was the Soviet Union, who did the dirty job in Manduria in 1945. All the problems, the US has now is, that Japane it hopelessly too weak in Asia today.
According to Japan's declaration of war on the US, The US and Britain had been interfering in the east, closing down trade routes. This was exactly the behavior which brought war in Europe as the British Navy was primed to close off the North Sea. Who was the antagonist?
Yeah. They were geographically separated by vast distances so much cooperation wasn't warranted. That's why Japan wanted to take India early on so that they could link up with the Germans in the Middle East, but that obviously didn't happen.
True. Japan's attack on the US allowed the USSR to move the bulk of its Siberian army to the European front at a crucial time in December 1941. If Japan had attacked the USSR instead of the USA, history might have been vastly different.
@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 ["They were geographically separated by vast distances so much cooperation wasn't warranted."] That is questionable. Had the Japanese attacked Russia instead of bringing the USA into the battle, history could have been quite different. Japan's attack on the US, and Germany's DOW on the US days later, were major Axis strategic blunders.
i don`t know, steamrolling through half of europe was also nothing to sniff at. but yeah, germany was never a country for huge naval operations. and why should we? we are right in the middle of europe with just a small coastline wich our enemies could easy blockade with their superior navy. germany was always more about army and airforce, with the navy as red-headed stepchild.
@@generalsaufenberg4931 The Pearl Harbor attack demonstrated Japan's high technology, for the time, as well as maritime and Air Force skills. The attack itself was by the Air Force, the role of the aircraft carriers was to deliver the Air Force to within the operational range. All this was very sophisticated. It was not just brute force. Later, recall, Hitler wanted to bomb New York and played with V-1s launched from submarines, but this never came to anything. It was too little, too late.
Neither could the US. The largest operation the US had ever even practiced was coordinating two (2) carriers. Coordinating four, much less six was considered an impossible task. Even at midway, the carriers acted as two independent task groups, and the force from Midway itself was completely uncoordinated with the carrier forces.
@@zdzislawmeglicki2262Japan didn’t have an “Air Force.” The pilots who operated from aircraft carriers and did maritime patrol were all Navy personnel, and their land based bomber force was operated by the Japanese Army. The distrust and rivalry between the army and navy hampered their effectiveness over and over again throughout the war.
Japan and Germany had a mutual aid pact prior to Pearl Harbor. Hitler was upset that Japan attacked Pearl rather than Singapore as Singapore would have diverted UK military resources to the Pacific.
They didn't have any aircraft carriers. I have read that they were building one, and that it was never completed. They missed the target on that. Mistake!
@@MarkHarrison733 Obsolete? really, didn't the Americans thrash the Japanese with aircraft carriers. I think you mean battleships were obsolete. However, i don't think an aircraft carrier would have been any use to the Germans.
@@MarkHarrison733 Do you mean the border clash's in Manchuria from 1935 - 1939? after which they signed a neutrality pact in 1941. Then Russia attacked Japan in Manchuria 9th August 1945 when the war was virtually over. You are trying to tell me that Russia defeated Japan? I think British, commonwealth & American veterans would have something to say on your remarks. And aircraft carriers still have there uses even today, they made the Falklands campaign possible.
I find it odd with all the various quotes from WW2 Axis leaders, Yamamoto was the only one that seemed to understand what N America was capable of doing. Seems as the rest, including the German High Command, really underestimated , or flat out didn't have any clue what could be done in N America. Quite possible people in N America didn't either. They had enough of a head start in 1939 though, the plans were put together for the industrial growth, some were implemented already, industry was ready to go for the most part.
The Japanese weren't as naive as that. They knew what the US was capable of, they just didn't think the US would do it. The idea was to destroy the US Pacific Fleet (and British, too) so Japan would be unopposed for that period in which they would establish absolute dominance in the region. Six months was the plan. Then they would offer to make peace with the U.S. before the Americans could fully recover. It actually wasn't a bad plan considering the isolationist mood before the war. The problem with the plan, however, was two-fold. FDR and the leftist elite (specifically Hollywood) knew Germany would eventually attack the Soviet Union, so had been ramping up the war effort and getting people behind it. Then, when Japan attacked, it was done in such a dishonorable and dastardly manner that NOBODY in the U.S. was willing to just "lie down and take it" from those .... well, you know. Had the Japanese approached it differently there would have been a LOT of people in the U.S. who were willing to just take the deal Japan offered and get it over with.
@@kumasenlac5504 I haven't given that much thought. I was referring to the American response - the attitudes of the people. Things like Japanese diplomats still pretending to to seek peaceful solutions. Or the timing of the delivery of the Declaration of War, which the Japanese intended to be delivered just minutes before the attack. As it turned out, the attack was made without a Declaration of War - a thing that mattered back then both legally and morally. In trying to game the system too closely, they failed. That made them the dishonorable and dastardly ones.
@@dougearnest7590 I'm going to agree with your historical take except the idea that the attack was "dishonorable and dastardly" that was just a PR campaign...the thing the Germans and Japanese didn't understand is that the American people don't believe in war, they believe in moral crusades Americans won't fight over lines on a map, but if they think they're "saving the world" you better get out of the way.
When the Japanese attached Pearl Harbor, the Germans still had the initiative in the East. They were actively steamrolling through the USSR, and were engaged in the battle of Moscow. Hitler was still ripe with overconfidence, and probably believed he could finish off the USSR in a few months, then deal with the Americans. Within a few months, they lost the battle of Moscow and a year later, lost in Stalingrad. By early 1943, after the defeat at Stalingrad, there was no doubt that Nazi Germany was doomed. The entire Western front was a side show compared to the East.
In retrospect, however, the attack on the Greer had not unfolded as FDR claimed. Rather than being the victim of a surprise attack by the German sub: The Greer had deliberately stalked the German sub, having been alerted to its presence by a British plane. The British plane had attacked the U-boat with depth charges while the Greer continued in pursuit. The sub fired a few torpedoes, the Greer responded with a few depth charges, and the chase came to an uneventful end. There was no positive evidence, the navy told the president, that the sub knew the nationality of the ship at which it was firing. Another naval clash a quarter of a century later would similarly help move the United States to war. As the facts of the Gulf of Tonkin incident also turned out to be different than what the president said at the time, Senator J. William Fulbright would remark, “Roosevelt’s deviousness in a good cause made it easier for Lyndon Johnson to practice the same kind of deviousness in a bad cause.”
@@Ultimaton100 Is not a revision, It was what happened. Take all the oil of a nation who Is in a Middle of a war and you gonna pay the price. Or what is the right version ? Japan atacked for no reason ? 😂
Hitler never intended to invade the UK, and as soon as Stalin broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 28 June 1940 the OKW started preparing for Barbarossa. We should have allied with Germany against the only threat.
So many who are ignorant of history. No mention of the oil embargo by the US against Japan. As an island nation, FDR gave the Japanese no choice. Going back even further, in reading the biography of Teddy Roosevelt, especially his time conducting diplomacy after the Russia-Japan war, he repeatedly urged the Japanese to militarize and dominate East Asia. Facts.
It always amazes me that people think this was a "Surprise." Japan's navy did the same thing to the Russians and no one even reacted to the news, it was just business as usual on a global level. If it was okay to do against the Russians, why would Japan even consider that it wasn't going to be acceptable to do to the Americans? Especially after we denied them oil for their industries. (Yes, I know that part of that oil went to their military.)
1st there wasn’t really global news at the time on the scale of today so not many actually knew about the attack outside mainly governments that didn’t care and didn’t get all the information outside the basics. 2 it was ok to do it to Russia in Japans eyes because Russia couldn’t retaliate the US could 3 the US didn’t deny them oil just refused to sell them their oil which they had the right to do and Japan found other oil fields anyway. Also the Soviet surprise attack was different from the attack on Pearl Harbor.
@@knightblade0188, actually, I learned that one in Japan. Same place I learned, according to their textbooks, that one day, for some inexplicable reason, America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
The whole point of the japanese empire was (initially) to get land from mainland asia so Japan could be self sufficient. They weren't going to just leave all of the area they obtained through war. So that left FDR in a position to practically force war or to leave it be. luckily for the chinese and south east asia he chose war.
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They were blamed because they were the largest and most aggressive of Allies' enemies, although I know they had different names as well as leaders, even govt. types. But Germans did the same thing to Czechoslovakia after Heydrich was assassinated that was done to them--they blamed the Czech villagers, who probably knew nothing about RH's death until they started getting executed and their villages razed; their families destroyed.
Germany was largely responsible for starting World War I because it's emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II was an arrogant, vain, aggressive unstable, megalomaniac who had designs on Europe and the world. Of course he was no Hitler and his ally Austria-Hungary deserves as much blame for starting the conflict with her aggressive policy towards the Balkans, especially Serbia.
The Tripartite Pact of 1940 between Japan, Nazi Germany and Italy stipulated that if one member was attacked the other two would come to it assistance. Japan was the aggressor by attacking Pearl Harbor. Therefore, Germany had no obligation to declare war on the United States.
By declaring war on the US, Germany could unleash his U boats in American waters. This was effective, and referred to by the U boat crews as the second happy time. He probably hoped that a combination of US distraction, U boat activity and his prejudices about Americans would starve Britain of supplies - food and war materials. Forcing the UK in to peace talks, freeing all those troops in Africa and France to move to the USSR. He gambled, but unlike Czechoslovakia, the Rhineland, Poland and France this one didn't work out for him. Thank goodness
The British are the reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. If England had not attacked the Italians at Taranto then the Japanese might not have gotten the idea for Pearl Harbor
nope. Japan attacked China unprovoked. Italy attacked Abyssinia. Germany attacked Poland unprovoked. So they might have done it either way. So you are just speculating.
Except Germany was not entirely responsible for WWI, French supported Serbia was responsible. Germany was pulled into the war because of their agreement with Austria. Cran e was sore with Germany because they got their ass beat by Germany in 1872 and again getting a severe beat down in WWI. All the screws put to Germany after WWI was France's doing.
Hitler actually lost the war the moment he decided to invade and send German forces into the USSR. His reckless and foolish decision to flippantly declare war on the United States in the process, put the final nail in the Third Reich’s coffin and only expedited that loss. Thank God Hitler decided to interfere and meddle in the Germans’ prosecution of the War; he was a military dilettante, strategically incompetent and tactically inept. If he had left the prosecution of the War up to the professional German military class, it all might have been a different story.
Neither Hitler nor the Japanese had any idea the U.S. could supply enough equipment and weapons for wars on 2 fronts. For every plain, tank, ship, truck, jeep, rifle and hand gun lost, the U.S. replaced it with 2.
@@MarkHarrison733 ???? You wanted the U.S. to side with the nazi fascists of Germany and the imperialistic butchers of Japan? I suppose you’ll be voting for the egomaniacal snowflake Donnie Shitshispants Trump. Aka Private Bonespur, aka the Adderal addicted asshole. Aka Donnie Depends. Aka the rapist, convicted felon, fraudulent, 6 time bankrupt, antisemitic, racist adulterer. Maybe you should move to Russia. Donnie Dementia’s boyfriend, Vladie would love a simpleton just like you.
@@DFC-d1d We should have supported the anti-Communist side, as Patton confirmed. Trump is a major Zionist, and many members of his family are Jewish. Biden gave Putin the green light to invade Ukraine. He is also preventing Israel from winning in Gaza.
The US supplied Russia with 13thousand planes 14 thousand tanks Thousands andthousands of trucks plus God knows how much ammo. Throw in the brutal winter weather and the Russia people fighting for their very existence Germany had no shot.
Yes, shut off Japan's oil supplies when Japan was invading China under the belief that they (Japan) would be attacked by Russia while having nowhere to flee to; China would be a "buffer state". From what I've read, FDR didn't even want to shut down Japan's oil supply and knew it would mean war, but was coerced into doing so by State Department lawyer Dean Acheson. FDR allegedly found out about Acheson's meddling too late and was unable to alter the sanctions as Acheson had written.
The US was not steadfastly isolationist nor did Pearl Harbor draw the US into the war. The US was already deeply involved in sending weapons to the UK and USSR while provoking Japan incessantly.
Provocation? lol "Stop raping China or we won't do business with you anymore" What a provocation. Japan attacked America for the sole purpose of securing their Eastern flank while they stole the European colonies in Asia. They cynically assumed this neutral country with no defensive alliance with their future enemies would declare war on them, and heartlessly decided to murder its people during peace time to get an advantage over its military and strike a spiritual blow against a people they assumed were too weak to fight back. It was an arrogant crime their country paid dearly for, and nothing more.
In June 1940 the Soviets had overrun the Baltic States and Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. Since this put Ploesti - where nearly two-thirds of German oil came from - a two-day journey by tanks from the new border, Hitler started planning Barbarossa.
@@Jeremy-y1t you are a horrible person. Do I agree the Soviets were a problem yes but so to was Germany you’d have us support genocide of millions for you sick ideas.
In the 1920s, Churchill approved of Mussolini and Italian fascism because he had been prepared to do much the same in Britain, if it had been necessary. He opposed Hitler as part of the same anti-German struggle that he had helped launch in 1914. It was only later that mainstream opinion chose to re-define World War II as anti-fascist, at a time when Germans were needed as Cold War allies.
@@knightblade0188 "With the fascist regime, Mussolini has established a centre of orientation from which countries which are engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle with socialism must not hesitate to be guided." - Churchill.
Sorry dude, but your entire thesis in this video is vastly altered by your omitting a super-critical fact about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I don't know if you do this ignorantly or knowingly, but there is utterly no excuse for you not knowing and including this fact either way, and discussing its obvious implications to not just your thesis in this video, but to the entire history of the war itself. This fact is the private admission of then Secretary of War Henry Stimson to the effect of: "The trick would be to maneuver them [the Japanese] into firing the first shot." That statement changes everything. We are brought up to consider the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as both "dastardly" and a "surprise." But it was neither. If indeed we "maneuvered" the Japanese into firing the first shot, that means that ** WE ** provoked the war, NOT the Japanese. That changes EVERYTHING. But why would FDR et. al. want to provoke the Japanese to attack us, and to make the war falsely appear to be their villainy? Since the US population was for the most part isolationist prior to the war, FDR and the self-admitted warmonger Churchill needed a good reason to sway public opinion in favor of war, not just against Japan, but also against Germany. FDR was also pushing the boundaries initially with the "lend-lease" program to Britain as it was, and his pro-war actions were viewed askance by many Americans. But not so after Pearl Harbor. Since it was clear prior to Pearl Harbor that FDR and Churchill were in favor of war with Germany, contrary to the national public opinion at the time, they needed to rally the people as well into war with Germany. I am so damn sick of false WW2 history by the likes of people such as yourself. Yea, you get the battles and so forth correctly identified, but you completely miss what was going on behind the scenes and behind closed doors, and the real reasons and motivations for the war. After the fall of the Soviet Union, documents were discovered (though later under Putin were clapped away tightly again) that revealed Stalin's plans to suddenly invade western Europe (in spiite of Molotov and Ribbentrop seemingly being so cozy at the time) within a few weeks but certainly less than one month after Germany's operation Barbarossa, to invade the Soviet Union. Hmmm. If Germany hadn't invaded the Soviet Union when they did, I wonder how far Stalin would have made it across Europe in 1940 before being stopped? Or perhaps Stalin would have made it all the way to the Atlantic coast in Portugal? I have a video taken many years ago in a Dutch war museum, where the tour guide was giving the "standard" or "politically correct" version of history to the tourists in the museum. But there were also in attendance at the time among the tourists a few surviving German Wehrmacht veterans, who tried to explain to the stubborn and ignorant tour guide how the German W3hrmacht actually prevented Stalin from getting much farther than he did, or would have wanted to go, across western Europe. As it was, towards the war's end, Stalin did take over several European countries. before encountering the western armies of Patton and Montgomery, and there set up communist "puppet states," viz, Poland, "East Germany," Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and Yugoslavia (and nearly Austria). Or was this perhaps FDR and Churchill's intentions all along to enable Stalin to do just that that? At the very least this demonstrates Stalin's intentions to take over and "communize" as much of western Europe as possible. Were FDR and Churchill that ignorant? I think not. FDR at the time did have a nasty reputation in the US at times for ignoring the US Constitution, and doing rather what he pleased, or rather what pleased some of his "advisors." I wish that these two GLARING omissions or falsehoods about WW2 history were the only ones. So sad. But don't take my word for it, but do your own homework, but be careful that you don't overlook sources that the politically correct establishment doesn't want you to investigate. I'm now 71. I grew up as a baby boomer in the period after the war, where all the Dads of all my friends were WW2 veterans. My father drove trucks on the Burma Road. I grew up under the daily and constant threat of nuclear annihilation in a war with the Soviet Union. We had repeated air-raid drills in my elementary school out on Long Island, in the suburbs of New York City, where my father worked at the time. I find it abhorrent how so many in our current "woke" culture and even in our political establishments are so sympathetic to the thoroughly proven-to-be-disastrous communist system. I later served a career as an officer in the US Air Force, and I got to fly jets for my country. Good thing I didn't learn about all this "unspoken" war history until after my career, or it might have affected the quality of my service. As it is, I hardly have any trust left in my government, especially under the present "administration." I'll close with a few quotes from a man that I refuse to honor and idolize as so many unfortunately do, Winston "the Warmonger" Churchill: "We will force this war upon Hitler, if he wants it or not." (Winston Churchill, 1936 broadcast) "This war is an English war, and its goal is the destruction of Germany." (Winston Churchill, Autumn 1939 broadcast) "The war wasn't only about abolishing fascism, but to conquer sales markets. We could have, if we had intended so, prevented this war from breaking out without doing one shot, but we didn't want to." (Winston Churchill to Truman Fultan, USA, March 1946) "Germany's unforgivable crime before the second world war was her attempt to extricate her economic power from the world's trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance its opportunity for profit." (Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speaking to Lord Robert Boothby) "Perhaps the next time round the way to do it will be to kill women, children and the civilian population." (Winston Churchill, quoted during the first World War, "The Telegraph," November 19, 2002. NOTE: this is EXACTLY what happened in the last months of WW2, with principally the English carpet bombing vast German population centers by night, with little military value, but which ended up murdering as Churchill had previously threatened to do, "women, children, and the civilian population," as in Dresden Hamburg, Berlin, Lubeck, Duren, and many, many other German cities.) "What we want, is for the German economy to be completely smashed" "Was wir wollen ist, dass die deutsche Wirtschaft vollkommen zusammengeschiagen wird." (Winston Churchill, speaking of the German-Polish dispute over access to Germany's East Prussia, before any hostilities at all had broken out.) Buy the way WInston Churchill preferred his prostitutes to have "ginger" (or to us Yanks, "red') hair. In honor of this fact, some of Winston's friends gave him a birthday gag gift one year of a red-yellow or "Ginger"-haired tabby cat
The atomic bomb attacks did not push Japan to surrender. The firebombing of Tokyo killed more people than both of the atomic bomb attacks and Tokyo was the Capital of Japan. They surrendered because of the USSR's declaration of war against them and subsequent attack. Hitler was foolish to declare war on the US even considering the extreme provocations by FDR. Japan had not helped Hitler against the USSR. Japan judged that Stalin's will to fight couldn't be broken and therefore did not help the Nazis out of fear of Stalin. Even up to the end, Japan didn't respect the US and our people. They thought they could break our will to fight. They kept deluding themselves about that and thinking they could force a negotiated peace. Losing two cities didn't change their minds. The part that most history books don't tell is that by the time of the Japanese surrender, the US was producing enough fissionable material that we could have spent all of the rest of 1945 and all of 1946 destroying a different city each week. Keeping that in mind, the USSR actually saved Japan from extinction by declaring war on them. Life is weird sometimes!
Didn't the imperial japanese leaders record what happened any why? Do you have any sources that show it was manchuria that made them surrender and not the bombs?
There was 10 more bombs ready to go. Decades earlier, the Russo Japan War ended with Russia giving up having its fleet decimated. Fun theory but doubtful.
The truth is that Japan was hoping for the Soviets to step in and mediate more favorable surrender terms with the US and Britain. When the USSR declared war on Japan that option was out the window, which is why Hirohito had no choice but to accept unconditional surrender. They didn't do so because they were more afraid of Russians than the Americans, although they may have preferred to be occupied by American forces due to the Soviets' reputation for robbing and pillaging conquered territories.
Major correction required. In early 20th century Japan, the government had civilian rule which was a new concept to the empire. The military did not have formal political power and regularly ignored the orders of the japanese government in the 30s. By the time of the war declaration, they were basically a rogue military. This is very common in eastern governments, and the Chinese military also regularly goes rogue and makes its own decisions against the CCP. In the end, force was the thing holding them up and the military couped the civilian government. It had considerable popular support as the parliament was considered weak and incompetent.
@@MarkHarrison733Even if true, irrelevant, as the point remains the same. Yamamoto knew from his time as a naval attaché in the U.S. that his country couldn’t hope to win a war of attrition against us.
I think a very important missed detail in this video is that FDR essentially forced the Japanese to go to war with the USA by placing an oil embargo on Japan due to the invasion of China. Japan had to find oil somehow and while it could have opted to invade the south and avoid the Philippines, they felt that the USA would find another way to enter the war with Japan so close in the neighborhood and decided it was better to attack first. From Hitler's point of view, the USA was already at war with Germany by supplying Great Britain. It was initially an advantage for Germany to declare war because their submarines could enter US waters and start wreaking havoc on the shipping. But this advantage was short-lived as the USA ramped up for war and had too much economic might for Germany to keep up with. The USA contributed to the war and saved Great Britain from defeat but Russia was an unstoppable war machine that surprised the Germans with their never-ending war machines and supplies. It was less about the USA defeating Germany and more about the USA liberating France before the Russians took the entire continent.
The Russian war machine was supplied by the USA.The amount of equipment is staggering, everything from food, medical equipment,hi octane fuel,plate steel,explosives machinery, trucks ,tanks aircraft ect,ect.Without it the Russians would look d not h ave been able to overcome the German invasion.
4:40 "Hitler and Germany had no choice but to honor their treaty with Japan" Adolph Hitler? The guy who violated pretty much every treaty obligation and international agreement he ever made? He had no choice but to honor a treaty with a country on the other side of the globe who could do nothing about it if he didn't?
@@MarkHarrison733 I love how someone can just blurt out ridiculously false assertions and I'm the one left scrambling to gather evidence for what is plainly true. He violated the terms of the Versailles Treaty by increasing the size of the German army beyond the treaty limit of 100,000. He violated it by introducing conscription. By introducing tanks. By the creation of the Luftwaffe. By the building of U-Boats. He violated it in 1936 by reoccupying the Rhineland. But those were all under the Versailles Treaty, so he wasn't violating any agreement that he himself had made. He invaded and annexed the rump state of Czechoslovakia in violation of the Munich Agreement whereby the Sudetenland would be ceded to Germany but the rest of Czechoslovakia would remain independent. After giving assurances that he had no more territorial demands, he invaded Poland in September, 1939. After having secured the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939, a non-aggression pact guaranteeing peace between Germany and the USSR for 10 years, Hitler blatantly and openly violated it less than two years later by launching an all-out surprise attack on the USSR with the goal of its utter destruction. I would *_love_* to hear how none of these count as violating a treaty or agreement. Everybody at the time regarded them as violations, including the Germans, including Hitler, who expressed contempt towards any treaties or agreements meant to curtail Germany's destiny. Referring to Chamberlain and other foreign leaders as "worms."
@@Guitcad1 The Treaty of Versailles caused World War I. Poland and Hungary invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938-39, which is why the USSR invaded Poland in 1939. Stalin broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 28 June 1940.
@@Guitcad1 1) There's nothing wrong with violating a treaty which was forced upon a country by threat of occupation. 2) The Munich Agreement was never violated. This is a common misconception, but Hitler only told Chamberlain that there would not be any further territorial advances against the Czechs for any reason, this was not stated in the agreement. Germany reserved the right to intervene in any crisis, and they did to during the 1939 Czech-Slovak crisis. 3) The invasion of Poland is diplomatically complex in terms of the leadup, but, regardless, Poland and Germany no longer had a pact of non-aggression. 4) Yes, the Germans were the first ones to abandon the Soviet pact, after Stalin refused a friendly alliance. Everyone knows that the USSR would have broken it if the Germans didn't do so first. But, sure. This was a treaty broken.
@@againsttheleftandright4065 Great. What you've done is to show the sort of gymnastics it takes to argue that Hitler never violated a treaty. You're playing "Simon Says." If that's what abiding by a treaty looks like then any treaty is pretty much worthless. Also, "There's nothing wrong with violating a treaty which was forced upon a country by threat of occupation." So you do acknowledge that he violated it, you just don't think violating it was wrong.
Churchill had extended Lend-Lease to the USSR in July 1941. The US was already at war in 1940, as Admiral King had confirmed at the time. Raeder had been pressing for the Second Happy Time to begin since March 1941.
@@MarkHarrison733 no lend lease was the US supplying nations at war. This has been something nations have been doing before the US existed and they were not considered at war either . Stop being a Nazi supporter please and stop listening to propaganda.
@@knightblade0188 Admiral King confirmed in 1940 that the US was already at war with Germany. Lend-Lease was a declaration of war, like shoot on sight and the illegal Destroyers for Bases deal. The US was on the wrong side in both world wars.
@@matthewhuszarik4173 yeah but it was only a fraction of what they needed at a ridiculously high price. And why do you think they were willing to pay it, because they needed it so badly.
@@MarkHarrison733 Ah no. In 2/1940 Russia signed a trade pact with Nazi Germany guaranteeing 900,000tons of oils per year along with grain and all the raw materials Nazi Germany needed for its war machine.
We were far from the only neutral nation. The British and French were not eager for war, as Munich proved. Considering their casualties in WW1, who can blame them? But we lost 116,000 troops to combat and disease and got nothing in return. Why should we have been eager to go to war?
In June 1940 the Soviets had overrun the Baltic States and Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. Since this put Ploesti - where nearly two-thirds of German oil came from - a two-day journey by tanks from the new border, Hitler started planning Barbarossa. Stalin broke the German-Soviet Commercial Agreement in August 1940, before breaking the German-Soviet Commercial Agreement in August 1940.
This video is highly inaccurate. There was no binding treaty between Germant and Japan against the US, only against the Soviet Union (and even that was defensive). Germany declared war on the United States because the latter has been engaged in unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic against German submarines, effectively fighting agermany at sea, without a war declaration. Germany's declaration of war read like an acknowledgement of war rather than a declaration
Germany did have a choice. The pact did not require declaring war on the U.S., only giving Japan unspecified assistance. Also Germany could have said, as Italy did in WWII to its allies, that the pact was a defensive pact and only applied to an unprovoked attack. As the video says, Germany should have done everything it could to keep the U.S. out of the war, just as Germany in 1917 should have done everything it could to keep the U.S. out of WWI. In both cases, the miscalculations led inevitably to Germany's defeat in both wars.
It is flatly incorrect that Hitler was surprised by Japan's attack on US and British interests. Theu just didn't know where, hence Hitler and his High Command's bemusement at the Wolf's Lair on Dec 7 (the Axis cooperation was very poor in WW2). But not long before the air and sea attacks on Pearl and other Oahu bases, the Japanese had contacted both Germany and Italy to ask, 'If we go now [attack the US and presumably the UK / Dutch) are you in it with us? [i.e. will you both declare war on the US]?. The answer from Rone and Berlin was 'absolutely yes (Hitler felt he needed the Japanese navy in play as he was sure the US was already heavily aiding USSR and the UK and would enter the war soon anyway).
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Britain was overjoyed
Only because they needed an Ally. US was it. US also provided much industrial might for the war.
I'm saying, not because they wanted a war,were British glad.
“Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful,” - Winston Churchill in his memoirs about the night of hearing of the attack. The only piece of the puzzle missing for the UK that night was war between the US and Germany, which Hitler stupidly gave as a gift a few days later. Because when you already have a two front war with multiple nations...why not go nuts and add another?
@@starventure Let's hope you are not describing the US in the near future...
The British empire was ruined after WWII, they were losers in the great war along with Germany.
@@Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm My god, I hope not.
Hitler at the time felt the U.S. would concentrate all its military efforts in the Pacific and not Europe. Bad mistake.
‘dolf was encouraged in such line of thinking by the rabidly anti-British 🇺🇸 CNO King who wanted to prioritize the Pacific 🥇
His callous hatred resulted in many a merchant seaman of all Allied nationalities to lose their lives, by refusing to organize ships in convoys & blacking out NYC skyline.
On the other hand, once into the fight, his tactics & the creation of the shipless 10th Fleet resulted in ubootes never to surface again.
It was a logical thought but the Allies viewed Germany as the bigger threat and focused on them.
More than this, he believed America to be weak, spoiled, dominated by inferior races, and corrupt; in contrast, he believed Japan to be a nation of great warriors.
@@Primitarian
However when the Japanese overran Asia, ‘dolf bemoaned the dethroning of the White man in the East !
In fact he spurned the Japanese military worth before PH.
Turned out he was right because his Honor-Aryans disregarded technology & considered modern weapons as only the extension of the Samurai’s sword.
Hence their senseless use of cannon fodder.
Regarding the 🇺🇸, ‘dolf’s favorite expression was ‘bankers disguised as soldiers’.
Well, the Ardennes 1944 taught him otherwise.
US, French, British involvement - bad mistake
You missed the point completely, Germany and Italy did need to declare war on the US because the treaty was only if they were attacked, not if they attacked the US. Germany declared war because Hitler believed that strong nations declared war on other nations first. The US war plans had been leaked days prior to Pearl Harbor and the Germans were reading the articles about it when the bombs started falling on Pearl Harbor.
Was just about to write this. A lot of this video is just wrong factually, or the writers have misunderstood the events completely.
He never declared war.
@@MarkHarrison733 "The German Government, consequently, discontinues diplomatic relations with the United States of America and declares that under these circumstances brought about by President Roosevelt Germany too, as from today, considers herself as being in a state of war with the United States of America." Except, Germany did on December 11th.
@@TheInquisitiveFool-cf6uj The US had declared war when Roosevelt publicly confirmed shoot on sight on 11 September 1941, having lied about the Greer incident.
The US had already committed acts of war on Germany and Roosevelt was pushing the envelope (neutrality) beyond the breaking point. German had not already declared war on the U.S. because without it FDR couldn't be as open in his support of Britain and the USSR. With Japan's attack, it meant the US would have to turn much of it's attention to the Pacific, and that Germany could finally fight back against the guys who had been breaking all the rules to make war on them. That's why Hitler was happy.
One very important but overlooked series of clashes along the Manchurian/ Mongolian borders between Japan and the Soviet Union, known as the battles of Khalkhin Gol, took place from May 11th to September 16th, 1939. The Soviets, along with their Mongolian allies, prevailed over the Japanese and the Kwantung Army. This loss led to the Japanese changing their entire strategy of taking Siberia, including Lake Baikal, and directing the vast majority of military resources to the south. As a result, the Japanese were in no position to help out Germany by invading the Soviet Union from the east. Because of this, Soviet troops that were deployed in the far east were redirected to the west to help fight the Germans. While this battle had taken place prior to the start of WW2, it would end up playing a decisive role in the conduct of the entire war on several fronts. Had the Japanese won this battle, they probably don't attack Pearl Harbor or pursue the southern strategy.
Tension between the US and Japan had been there for decades. Many thought war was inevitable between the two countries. Even if Japan attacked the Soviet Union they would still have the problem of the US.
Also you have the cease fire of Sept 14, 1939 and the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact of April 1941 which allowed both countries to focus on other areas, which they both did.
A lot of people miss out on the fact that even if Japan had attacked the Soviet Union, it would have only increased tension with the US.
Attacking the Soviet Union and you probably still get the US involved, Japan didn't want to fight both countries. And the only way to avoid that was to attack the US, not the Soviets and hope the neutrality pact holds up.
If Japan would've invaded the USSR from the East Hitler would've had a better chance in the west because the Soviet Army would've been fighting a war on 2 fronts.
Yes indeed. That short conflict between Japan and Soviets had major repercussions and should have been mentioned here. Another point is that Japan's refusal to fight the Soviets afterwards should have excused Germany from declaring war on the US. If that happened it might have been difficult to convince Americans to go to war against Germany and WW2 would've instead been 2 seperate large regional conflicts which might have benefited Germany.
@@arkwill14 The US was already at war with Germany in 1940, as Admiral King had confirmed at the time.
The US had declared war on Germany on 24 March 1933.
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Hitler did not have to declare war on the US. It was a defensive treaty, if Japan was attacked, then Germany would get involved. But Japan attacked and Hitler could have stayed out of it.
The US attacked first.
You are right, but Hitler, at that very moment, was believing that russians were almost defeited. Few weeks later he understood he was wrong
@@megacosmicray The US was already at war.
"stayed out of it"? -- when it was only the US Navy which was keeping Britain and the USSR going via stupendous Lend-Lease shipments??? By declaring war, Hitler was able to unleash his u-boats and finally start sinking US shipping. And the US Navy had already been depth-charging German u-boats since September 11, 1941 by FDR's executive order.
@tekinfomedi Raeder had been pressing for the Second Happy Time since March 1941.
What is stated at 4:40, that when the U.S. declared war on Japan, Germany had no choice but to declare war on the U.S., is factually incorrect. The terms of the tripartite pact required the signatory nations to declare war on any nations that attacked their fellow signatories, _if that other nation was the aggressor._ It did _not_ require any of the signatories to declare war on another nation, if that nation was attacked _by_ a fellow signatory. In other words, because Japan was the aggressor on December 7, 1941, Japan effectively absolved Germany of any obligation to join in its war on the United States. The same applied in reverse: because Germany attacked the U.S.S.R. on June 22nd, 1941, Japan was under no obligation to join Germany in the war against Russia -- and Japan did not. And later toward the end of the video, the narrator even acknowledges this, so I'm not sure why he made that statement.
Hitler made an absolutely fatal miscalculation in declaring war on the United States. If he hadn't done it, prevailing sentiment in the U.S. would have held that the European war was Europe's affair, and our war was in the Pacific. FDR understood the need to defeat Germany, but absent a _casus belli_ he couldn't do much to involve the U.S. in the war in Europe. Hitler handed him one on a silver platter when he declared war on the United States, and thereby ensured that the full might of the world's largest economic and industrial power was devoted, first and foremost, to the defeat of Germany.
The US had declared war on Germany in March 1933.
@@MarkHarrison733 There are no historical records of your assertion.
Hitler could have kept his focus on the USSR had he waited more. However, dictators have their own calendar which no one can accurately predict.
@@MiddleAgedGeek We all know who controls the US.
@@MiddleAgedGeek The US was already at war with Germany in 1940, as Admiral King had confirmed at the time.
Hitler should have ignored Japan and not declared war on the US, after all Japan didn't honor the alliance with Germany and Italy since they didn't attack the Soviet union when operation Barbarossa took place.
The J’s that run this country would’ve found another way to save their communist brethren in Europe
The US was already at war.
He never declared war.
@@MarkHarrison733Still, if Japan waited until late '41 after the USSR had stripped it's eastern territories of troops to stop the Germans at the gates of Moscow, German would have likely defeated Russia, and Japan could have shared in the Russian oil fields and iron mines, making the attack on the U.S. unnecessary altogether.
@@frankmueller2781 The entire world should have fully supported Barbarossa.
The US had attacked Germany and Japan in April 1941.
I have always said that Hitler's biggest mistake was not the invasion of Russia but the declaration of war on the US. From there on Nazi Germany's fate was sealed.
Bro FDR had already permitted US ships to fire at german ships before hitler declared war and the US was already escalating. FDR and Hitler both knew FDR was joining, why else would he declare war on the largest economy on earth.
nah, the USA was basically already in war with Germany by 1941. The USA's main contribution to the war was Lend-Lease Act, contrary to what Hollywood wants you to believe... the USA didn't play a major role in combat in the European scenario. The main role of the USA in Europe was being the giant industrial factory and food supplier to the USSR and the British Empire.
@@victorfergn and your point is?
Churchill said he slept peacefully for the 1st time in years when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Hitler declared war on America….he knew Americas industrial mastery over the world and realized it would only be a matter of time until Germany and Japan would be defeated.
The U.S would have been drawn into the war even if Pearl did not happen.
He was elated that Japan could tie down US and thought Britain will be getting less supplies via Lend Lease. His brief happiness was turned to anger when his generals do not know Pearl harbour 's location.
This is wrong.
@@MarkHarrison733 You are always wring..you're a troll and a BOT!
@@MarkHarrison733 Even young school children learn geography
hitler has often been described as a gambler and like almost all of them his luck eventually ran out⚛😀
@JuanCarlosBuisman-666 You support Hitler?
To say " Bring it on " to the Soviet Union and the United States at the same time is one hell of a gamble.
He bet the farm and lost.
@JuanCarlosBuisman-666 Which Manson are we talking about here ?
@@StuartRyan-yi5okyou are a knee taker eh? 😆
You dropped your flag maam 🏳️🌈
The US was not isolationist. They already helped Britain and others by supplying them against Germany long before Pearl Harbor.
Only because FDR used loopholes. The US voters were against entering another European war.
Correct, My Father was in a coast guard escort ship protecting & surrounding the supply ships to England. They were armed with both depth charges and antiaircraft weapons.
The USA knew that Germany will not declare war against the USA and the Germans said the USA has no place and no right in this war. The reason why Germany declared war against the USA was because the USA provoked Japan.
The USA already supported the Communists, so did the British and the French.
The British, the USA and the Communists wanted the war.
Didn't the US also secretly blockade Japan from receiving critical resources from overseas? That's why they felt compelled to launch that sneak attack on Pearl Harbor (using a dirty, deplorable, dishonorable diplomatic tactic, though). There was also the Flying Tigers, who were American pilots who secretly flew American fighters against Japan in defense of China. I'm *NOT* siding with Imperial Japan one bit, but facts are facts, and no one was completely innocent and pure here. We messed with Japan (justifiably so) before they messed with us.
@@MB-xe8bb He ran a campaign of lies and won the election partly on the promise of never entering the war. Then he secretly worked against both Germany and Japan, and used the rage of Americans from the attack on Pearl Harbor as justification to break his campaign promises. I'm not trying to single out FDR, since virtually all politicians are filthy liars just like him, but that's what I think happened.
The first convoys with American goods were already being sent to the USSR by August 1941. Shortly afterwards the Axis found out about the convoy routes, and the allies suffered great losses. During the war German submarines and torpedoes sank about 80 cargo ships destined for the USSR.
Hitler was the last chancellor appointed during the Weimar Republic. President von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg had tried every other option, but the other parties didn't realize that keeping Hitler out of office should be their first priority.
Hitler used the system to gain power. Let that be a warning for us today.
@tekinfomedi I know all of that. I also know that history has proven them all wtong.
It was the cover Roosevelt needed.
You are one dumbass. Cover? Did the FBI attack Pearl Harbor?
Roosevelt knew about the attack, the US government let the attack happened, they knew this would be the justification to rally all of America against the axis, japan was never the real target, it was always Germany
Correction on the Weimar Republic: it did not "collapse in 1933 and Hitler stepped in." Hitler was chosen as chancellor, and simply ramped up the already existing trend of shifting power from parliament to the head of government.
There never was an "offical" switch from "Weimar Republic" (which isn't even an offical designation) to "Third Reich". Sure, there were massive changes and restrictions to the original 1919 constitution, but that was never abolished or replaced. Based on international law, there was just one "Deutsches Reich" from 1919 onwards. Even after the end of the war, this international entity was not questioned... the official line in western Germany was that the FRG was not the successor, but the continuation of the old state with a new political system and name.
What are you talking about? Germany didn't "accept responsibility for WW1 as a whole", it was forced to sign that document, in which it is stated that Germany was alone GUILTY for starting WW1.
He referenced Columbia as a source of information. That should tell you everything you need to know.
He literally used the word “forced” in the video at 0:24
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It's a very simple "give to get, supply & demand, loans at interest" shell game...
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The winner of all conflicts judges and edits all conflicts . Rewrites time frames , events, and causes and effects.. absconding with all data that paints any negativity toward them. By no means is this an attack on the United States but a quick overview of the nature of beast of war . All winners of conflicts practice this to what degree is subjective the conflict.
@@johnmorales7057 It depends on how far the lie is spread, for how long and the depth of it.
Secondly, people will begin to doubt the lies and begin to unearth the truth. Or at least to show the other side of the medal.
You cannot compare the depression in the US to what Germany was experiencing in the 1920s. Germany was absolutely DEVASTATED by the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was blamed for a war they did not start.
nailed it.
WWI devastated France at the hands of Germany. They got what they had coming
A war they did not start? In what squirrelly, semiliterate little internet cave did you contract that utter bullshit?
Germany was devastated by all the money they printed during WW1, even before they signed the Treaty of Versailles. It was just a matter of time before the citizens realized the currency had been permanently damaged from the war.
@@Daniel-sh3osthat was a result of the Weimar republic, something most of the german people did not really want to begin with, and half the reason hitler came to power so easily. The Weimar was a radical, ultra-liberal party essentially dedicated to the degeneration of german life post-versailles treaty, many of whom where of jewish ethnicity - another big reason antisemitism soared in prussia after the national socialist takeover. You can look up the despicable conditions of german civility under the jurisdiction of the Weimar and see exactly how and why Germany felt increasingly humiliated even after the lunacy of Versailles. The November criminals were a very real and dystopian problem to the lives of prussian peoples.
The Americans promised the British their inclusion in the war on their side if attacked by the Japanese. The Japanese
attacked the British at Koda Bahru 45 minutes ahead of their attack on Pearl Harbor.
Tripartite Pact was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 when Germany and Italy were already at war with Britain.
Did Japan declare war on Britain in 1940 ?
America was supporting Britain in the European war (again!) even before the Destroyers for Bases Agreement of 1940 and the Lend-Lease Act or early 1941.
The United States had declared war on Germany on 24 March 1933.
Admiral King had confirmed in 1940 that the US was already actively at war.
Roosevelt declared war when he publicly confirmed shoot on sight on 11 September 1941, having lied about the Greer incident.
Please give me the source of this war declaration by the US to Germany in 1933 because I can't find it on the web.
@@sureshmukhi2316 Wall Street had announced its declaration of war on 24 March 1933.
@@MarkHarrison733 Wall Street can't declare war. Only Congress can do it. Roosevelt had the support of Congress to make declaration of war on Japan for obvious reasons, but he certainly couldn't do it against Germany. Yes, German U-boats were sinking merchant vessels from US to England but we had not considered an act of war.
@@jeffreyhillmeyer3391 The economic war had begun on 24 March 1933.
US warships were attacking U-Boats on sight by April 1941.
the truth hurts right?
It's been said (not sure if true) that Hitler became angry when no one on his military staff could find Pearl Harbor on a map.... 🤣
@@ToxicMan2023 🤔🤨😑🤣
There was probably a time we could have found the answer to that question, but with so much obfuscation of history (particularly anything pertaining the Hitler and Nazis) we've probably missed our chance.
Had Hearst not instigated the Spanish American War, would The US have had any interests in Asia?
Well, there was Hawaii and Midway, etc.
It was allowed to happen. Reports of the fleet were told to be ignored. There are books on this. Only way for Roosevelt to get his war and support from a neutral public.
That’s not entirely accurate. They thought the attack would happen but it would be at the Philippines not Pearl Harbor. You got to remember the US didn’t know small planes could sink battleships yet so they thought Pearl Harbor untouchable.
That really doesn't make sense. If FDR knew it was about to happen, wouldn't it have been wiser to have the US forces at Pearl Harbor fully alerted, and able to minimise the effect of any attack?
Surely you don't think that a failed Japanese surprise attack would have caused less anger?
@@dovetonsturdee7033 they didn’t know he’s basing off some misinformation that’s made a popular conspiracy theory.
@@knightblade0188 Roosevelt was informed on 4 December 1941 the Japanese were preparing to attack Hawaii.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 It was not a surprise to anyone.
Roosevelt had been informed in mid-1940 that Pearl Harbor was the obvious target.
One thing that is always overlooked is that Japan went out of its way to not help Germany against the USSR. Japan tiptoed around them the entire war until they attacked the IJA in Manchuria in August, 1945. Hitler could have easily used this as justification for not declaring war and thus not further enrage an already apoplectic American people. That he did, while being part of a treaty that did basically nothing for Germany, shows how poor of an understanding of foreign policy he had. He was far from the expert that he held himself as.
He had to begin the Second Happy Time.
Japan did have a neutrality pact with the Soviets. And remember, the treaty between Japan and Germany said if attacked, not if they go attacking. Which technically Germany didn't have to declare war on the US either as Japan attacked the US. And Germany attacked the Soviet Union which meant Japan wasn't treaty bound to join in on that war.
@@rizon72 Germany never declared war on the US, and Stalin broke the pact first in 1940.
@@MarkHarrison733 The Soviet Japanese Neutrality Pact was signed in April 1941, a bit hard to break in 1940 if it didn't exist.
What source do you have that Germany didn't declare war on the US? I'm curious because you can read the text of the declaration delivered by Ribbontorp to Leland Morris, highest US official in Germany all over.
@@rizon72 The US was already at war with Germany in 1940, as Admiral King had confirmed at the time.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed in August 1939. Stalin broke the pact on 28 June 1940.
It is worth mentioning that the Japanese had signed a non aggression pact with the Soviets, after losing the battle of Khalkin Gol in 1939. Hitler wanted the japanese to expand and attack the Soviets in the East, but the Japanese honored the non aggression pact.
Siberia did not have the resources Japan needed.
@@MarkHarrison733 The Japanese were fighting one of the biggest armys in the world in China. I doubt they had the manpower to add the Soviets to their list of enemies as they were now fighting the Americans and the British. They also needed men to secure land they had taken.
He was a public speaker, not a military strategist. Hitler was a total idiot. We are all lucky that this dumb man was in charge of Germany.
@@arcticfox6808 He did not make any military mistakes.
Japan was not interested in invading Siberia.
@@McDago100 it was the amount of trucks required to invade Siberia was far beyond what Japan had, or could even produce. Had nothing to do with the Chinese, who the Japanese were absolutely devastating. But, you're right about one thing, once Japan declared war on USA and Britain, yes, all the soldiers and equipment of Kanto-gun (Kwangtung Army) were rapidly depleted and sent elsewhere in Asia.
Hitler was not elated but he did think the US would be more involved against Japan than Europe. The trade embargos by the US on Japan made the Pearl Harbor attack almost inevitable. FDR had been pressuring Japan economically for some time. Classic example of FAFO.
what is FDR and FAFO?
@@Computeron36 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and F*ck Around & Find Out
It's my understanding that for many years, the Soviet's had troops on the border of Manchuria to counter the Japanese. When the Japanese went to war with the US, their troops were moved to fight Western powers. That freed the experienced Soviet troops to move against the Germans, the opposite of what Hitler wanted, although, he may not have seen that at the time.
In the West we underscore Russia's contribution toward the defeat of axis powers.
@@wjckc79, although I don't support the Russians today, there is no doubt most of the victory in the west in WW2 was earned by them. I believe they had three to four times the killed and wounded.
Apparently 40 divisions of Soviet Siberian troops were freed up to send West. First I read about this was about 40 years ago in the Herman Wouk docunovel - The Winds of War.
There was an undeclared war between Japan and the USSR and Mongolia that culminated in the battle of Khalkin Gol (March - August 1939) where Japan was decisively defeated. After that victory the Soviets moved those 40 divisions west to Europe starting in September of 1939. Some of the troops actually walked from Siberia to Europe. Pearl Harbor attack wasn't until December of 1941 so the sequence of events does not support your theory.
@@Don-mu2qh, thanks very much for explaining the time line to me.
Hitler probably thought I think I have woken a sleeping giant!!!!!
I saw that movie too.
Actually he didn't for whatever reason, didn't seem to really appreciate the capabilities of the US in a total war mindset. Pretty spectacular misread really, but little he could do as they were pretty much bound by treaty to respond in Japans aid whatever his feelings. The military leadership below him however seems to have understood it quite well.
@@JG-tt4sz Hitler got to see it firsthand.
@@mathompson53187 Germany was not obligated to come to the aid of Japan because the Tripartite pact only made Germany commit to a declaration of war ONLY IF JAPAN WAS ATTACKED. Japan was not attacked.
@@JG-tt4sz Just going to post that one.
One thing you glossed over was that Japan engaged in open conflict wth the US on 12 December 1937 when Japanese warplanes engaged in open combat upon the gunboat USS Panay, sinking her and three Standard Oil tankers in the Yangtze River, one day before Japanese forces came into Nanking/Nanjing and commenced a six-week slaughterfest which resulted in the deaths of over 300,000 Chinese civilians. Roosevelt demanded an apology and the Japanese government paid over $4 million dollars for the damages.
The Panay Incident could have brought these two nations to war, but it didn't. It should also be noted that the Japanese also attacked British gunboats on the same day as well. Hitler became aware of the Nanking Massacre by way of several officers stationed in that city, as well as telegrams from John Rabe, a loyal Nazi who helped rescue hundreds of civilians from the Japanese and begged Hitler to intervene. What makes this story even crazier is that Chiang Kai-Shek was entertaining an alliance with Hitler, possibly because of the civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists that started in 1927 where he could have used his assistance, but once Japan entered the picture in 1931 beginning with token warfare and culminating in the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 is when we start to see a different picture regarding how Chiang's China started to veer from a possible alliance with Nazi Germany and slowly side with America and Britain which is for another chapter of World War 2.
p.s. - I wish you had used clips from Tora!Tora!Tora! alongside Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, even though the latter film's technology is more updated than the one from 1970 in several spots.
You are leaving out the series of embargos the US had put on Japan to force them to give up the lands they had occupied. This included scrap steel and most importantly, crude oil.
Churchill was elated...
Having fought, nearly alone, since July 1939 you can see his point...
Churchill knew America much more than Hitler hell his mother was an American
@@kumasenlac5504 Nearly alone!? Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India feel so overlooked...🍁
@@TrumpFacts-wl2ik Clumsiness on my part - the contributions from the other countries of the Empire were significant in terms of material, manpower and morale. Mea Culpa.
The German’s had an operative in Hawaii who assisted the Japanese with intelligence.
With a pinup daughter(fleeing from Joe G.’s attentions in Berlin) named Ruth who practiced $expionage to enhance his intelligence gathering.
The main reason why we had no choice but to ally with Britain is because we shifted our Navy to the Pacific after we gained Hawaii and The Philippines. This put us on a collision course with Japan, and therefore we relied on the Royal Navy to help guard the Atlantic. That’s why we were never “neutral” during World War I.
No you just don’t know what your talking about
@@knightblade0188 We should have helped Japan against China, and fully supported Barbarossa.
@@MarkHarrison733 and you are a traitor now keep going
@@knightblade0188 Siding with Communism was fatal for the US and the British Empire.
@@Jeremy-y1t no it wasn’t.
Hitler could no longer ignore the vast amount of aid the US was giving to the USSR and the British Empire.
He also had to begin the Second Happy Time.
That is wrong.
Incorrect. Hitler was ecstatic that the US had broken their treaties of mutual protection with France and the UK, and was even happier that the US was Nazi Germany’s greatest war material supplier/trade partner and held the largest non-German Nazi Party. Hell, industrialists like Henry Ford continued trading with Hitler [i]even after he was at war with the US[/i] and did so until the war’s end. Public knowledge, yet never even paid so much as a fine. And lastly remember that the US’s systemic treatment of native and African-Americans was Hitler’s model for the Holocaust.
@@balancedactguy The US was already at war with Germany in 1940, as Admiral King had confirmed at the time.
The US had declared war on Germany on 24 March 1933.
He hadn't been ignoring it, the wolfpack Uboats had been decimating the Atlantic convoys that brought the aid, they just couldn't stop all of it from getting across
@@TheIronDuke9 "MarkHarrison" is a BOT that trolled ALL OVER THIS PAGE..just ignore "him" and his ridiculous comments!
This was a good video. It really laid out the timeline much better than a lot of books and such.
When Germany attacked the USSR, Japan did not declare war on the USSR. When Japan attacked the United States, Germany declared war on the United States. They didn't have to as the video pointed out and it was Hitler's hubris that doomed Germany. Had he not declared war, the United States would not have been involved in Europe, the British likely would have had a separate peace with Germany and Germany would have had enough to eventually defeat the USSR or at least gain a lot of land.
They already lost at Stalingrad, before the US even set foot on Continental Europe. So the war for Germany was pretty much lost at that point.
Exactly. It wasn't Germany's goals that caused their downfall, but their belief in their own superiority over other countries and their tendency to underestimate their enemies.
@@BlackHoleSoul13 They were running out of oil, so they were basically forced to attack Russia. They underestimated the USSR but it was pretty much do or die regardless. Although also knew they had to win quick or theyd be in trouble, so it wasn't all hubris. If they didn't secure the oil the German economy would collapse, it was either that or go to war. Hitler chose war.
@@jdee8407 I am not sure that I agree with you. Hitler's fate was settled when a bridge head was established at Normandy. A second front was created. I believe that Goering said as much at Nuremberg.
@@antonioacevedo5200 How do you fight an industrial modern war of mobility against the great powers of the world without oil?
You need oil for everything, from manufacturing to the mobility of your planes and tanks, to your supply your chain. Germany ran out of its oil reserves at the end of 1941. When Hitler couldn't secure the southern oil fields. It was pretty much just a matter of time. He was basically dead man walking from that point.
5:35 to this day i wonder how much truth is behind hitler's declaration of war...
What do you wonder? Germany never denied it had declared war on the US.
@@iriemon1796 The US had declared war in March 1933.
Hitler thought: great, keep bringing in more people to the party
It might have come as a shock to Hitler but it certainly wasn't a surprise to the US, who had pushed Japan to war and engineered an attack that they therefore knew was coming.
In case anyone is curious, the scenes of Pearl Harbor being attacked in the video are from the movie Midway.
True good movie
America was never out of the war. Money talk
Why don't you add the part about why Japan attacked pearl harbour to begin with? America forced their hand, they knew it was coming
FDR drew a line in the sand and Japan crossed it bringing embargos backed by Churchill.
Churchill Thirdly, the policy to be pursued towards Japan in order, if possible, to put a stop to further encroachment in the Far East likely to endanger the safety or interests of Great Britain or the United States and thus, by timely action, prevent the spreading of the war to the Pacific Ocean.
para.2
WAR SITUATION.
HC Deb 09 September 1941 vol 374 cc67-156
Because they have a little thing called a checkmark on their channel name
Shhhhh! Just accept the version told by the victors! : )
Japan (Economic Sanctions)
Volume 373: debated on Tuesday 5 August 1941
65. Mr. Mander asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will Toggle showing location ofColumn 1792give an assurance that the economic sanctions put into operation in the Far East will so function that oil and other war supplies will in practice, as well as in theory, cease to be available to Japan in respect of the territories of Great Britain, the United States of America and the Netherlands?
The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
(Mr. Richard Law)
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Consultations with the other Governments concerned regarding the application of the far-reaching financial measures of control which have been introduced are still in progress, and I cannot add anything to the statement which my right hon. Friend made last week. There is no doubt, however, that the operation of these measures is already practical, not theoretical, and that their effect on supplies for Japan will be serious.
Mr. Mander
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Will the Minister bear in mind that the oil from which this spirit is made should not be permitted to be sent to Japan, as has happened in the past? Otherwise, there is nothing in it.
Mr. Law
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That point will be borne in mind.
Mr. Noel-Baker
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Will steps be taken to press upon the United States Government that there is more hope of preventing war in the Far East between Japan and ourselves and America if oil supplies are stopped now?
Mr. Law
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I am sure that the United States Government, like His Majesty's Government, are fully aware of the situation.
yes, the US had embargos on japan getting oil, and had made it difficult for japan to get resources to fund its war effort, which the US did in part due to japan's effort to torture and enslave the chinese
The U.S became an undeclared combatant in March, 1941.
Admiral King had confirmed in 1940 that the US was already at war with Germany.
Saddam Hussein or Kadhafi or Afghanistan, Vietnam etc. did not declare war on the US, still both were attacked by the US. There is an exact pattern of behavier, how the US goas to war in the last 150 years, reagardless if there is a declaration, a provocation or anything like that. There were 100 reasons to go in a war with the Soviet Union in the cold war period, and the US remaind "peacefull". But they attacked Panama, Grenada, the Suez Canal, Yugoslavia (Mexico..etc.etc) if it was necessary. Pearl Habour was a suicide attack from Japane, they had no glue, what they are dealing with. It was not even the US, who "executed" Japane on the continent, but it was the Soviet Union, who did the dirty job in Manduria in 1945. All the problems, the US has now is, that Japane it hopelessly too weak in Asia today.
According to Japan's declaration of war on the US, The US and Britain had been interfering in the east, closing down trade routes. This was exactly the behavior which brought war in Europe as the British Navy was primed to close off the North Sea. Who was the antagonist?
Japan didn't invade Russia in return for Hitler's declaration. There really wasnt much of an alliance between the two when the fighting started.
He never thought it would.
Yeah. They were geographically separated by vast distances so much cooperation wasn't warranted. That's why Japan wanted to take India early on so that they could link up with the Germans in the Middle East, but that obviously didn't happen.
@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 Sadly.
True. Japan's attack on the US allowed the USSR to move the bulk of its Siberian army to the European front at a crucial time in December 1941. If Japan had attacked the USSR instead of the USA, history might have been vastly different.
@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 ["They were geographically separated by vast distances so much cooperation wasn't warranted."] That is questionable. Had the Japanese attacked Russia instead of bringing the USA into the battle, history could have been quite different. Japan's attack on the US, and Germany's DOW on the US days later, were major Axis strategic blunders.
Tripartite Pact was a mutual DEFENCE pact, Germany and Italy had no obligation to declare war on the USA.
They were fighting a defensive war.
@@MarkHarrison733 are you really this uneducated?
@@knightblade0188 Wall Street had declared war on 24 March 1933.
@@MarkHarrison733wall street crashed in 1929 they couldn’t have declared war
@@tysonsnider5197 March 1933 was long after 1929.
Hitler must have been enormously impressed with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Germany could not have pulled off a comparable operation.
i don`t know, steamrolling through half of europe was also nothing to sniff at. but yeah, germany was never a country for huge naval operations. and why should we? we are right in the middle of europe with just a small coastline wich our enemies could easy blockade with their superior navy. germany was always more about army and airforce, with the navy as red-headed stepchild.
@@generalsaufenberg4931 The Pearl Harbor attack demonstrated Japan's high technology, for the time, as well as maritime and Air Force skills. The attack itself was by the Air Force, the role of the aircraft carriers was to deliver the Air Force to within the operational range. All this was very sophisticated. It was not just brute force. Later, recall, Hitler wanted to bomb New York and played with V-1s launched from submarines, but this never came to anything. It was too little, too late.
They sunk More ships that the japanese could only dream about.
Neither could the US. The largest operation the US had ever even practiced was coordinating two (2) carriers. Coordinating four, much less six was considered an impossible task. Even at midway, the carriers acted as two independent task groups, and the force from Midway itself was completely uncoordinated with the carrier forces.
@@zdzislawmeglicki2262Japan didn’t have an “Air Force.” The pilots who operated from aircraft carriers and did maritime patrol were all Navy personnel, and their land based bomber force was operated by the Japanese Army. The distrust and rivalry between the army and navy hampered their effectiveness over and over again throughout the war.
Japan and Germany had a mutual aid pact prior to Pearl Harbor. Hitler was upset that Japan attacked Pearl rather than Singapore as Singapore would have diverted UK military resources to the Pacific.
Japan did attack Singapore in 1941.
I don’t think Hitler had aircraft carriers most of his navy was in Submarines.
They didn't have any aircraft carriers. I have read that they were building one, and that it was never completed. They missed the target on that. Mistake!
@@jeffgreen7499 Aircraft carriers were obsolete.
@@MarkHarrison733 Obsolete? really, didn't the Americans thrash the Japanese with aircraft carriers. I think you mean battleships were obsolete. However, i don't think an aircraft carrier would have been any use to the Germans.
@@Notchrhino55 The USSR defeated Japan.
@@MarkHarrison733 Do you mean the border clash's in Manchuria from 1935 - 1939? after which they signed a neutrality pact in 1941. Then Russia attacked Japan in Manchuria 9th August 1945 when the war was virtually over. You are trying to tell me that Russia defeated Japan? I think British, commonwealth & American veterans would have something to say on your remarks.
And aircraft carriers still have there uses even today, they made the Falklands campaign possible.
I find it odd with all the various quotes from WW2 Axis leaders, Yamamoto was the only one that seemed to understand what N America was capable of doing. Seems as the rest, including the German High Command, really underestimated , or flat out didn't have any clue
what could be done in N America. Quite possible people in N America didn't either. They had enough of a head start in 1939 though, the plans were put together for the industrial growth, some were implemented already, industry was ready to go for the most part.
The Japanese weren't as naive as that. They knew what the US was capable of, they just didn't think the US would do it. The idea was to destroy the US Pacific Fleet (and British, too) so Japan would be unopposed for that period in which they would establish absolute dominance in the region. Six months was the plan. Then they would offer to make peace with the U.S. before the Americans could fully recover. It actually wasn't a bad plan considering the isolationist mood before the war.
The problem with the plan, however, was two-fold. FDR and the leftist elite (specifically Hollywood) knew Germany would eventually attack the Soviet Union, so had been ramping up the war effort and getting people behind it. Then, when Japan attacked, it was done in such a dishonorable and dastardly manner that NOBODY in the U.S. was willing to just "lie down and take it" from those .... well, you know. Had the Japanese approached it differently there would have been a LOT of people in the U.S. who were willing to just take the deal Japan offered and get it over with.
@@dougearnest7590 The Japanese obviously hadn't studied the US Civil War very well.
@@dougearnest7590 Please elaborate on the characteristics of an honorable surprize attack.
@@kumasenlac5504 I haven't given that much thought. I was referring to the American response - the attitudes of the people. Things like Japanese diplomats still pretending to to seek peaceful solutions. Or the timing of the delivery of the Declaration of War, which the Japanese intended to be delivered just minutes before the attack. As it turned out, the attack was made without a Declaration of War - a thing that mattered back then both legally and morally. In trying to game the system too closely, they failed. That made them the dishonorable and dastardly ones.
@@dougearnest7590 I'm going to agree with your historical take except the idea that the attack was "dishonorable and dastardly" that was just a PR campaign...the thing the Germans and Japanese didn't understand is that the American people don't believe in war, they believe in moral crusades Americans won't fight over lines on a map, but if they think they're "saving the world" you better get out of the way.
Wall Street had declared war on Germany on 24 March 1933.
You are full of crap.
@@markgelbart5889 We all know who controls the US.
When the Japanese attached Pearl Harbor, the Germans still had the initiative in the East. They were actively steamrolling through the USSR, and were engaged in the battle of Moscow. Hitler was still ripe with overconfidence, and probably believed he could finish off the USSR in a few months, then deal with the Americans. Within a few months, they lost the battle of Moscow and a year later, lost in Stalingrad. By early 1943, after the defeat at Stalingrad, there was no doubt that Nazi Germany was doomed. The entire Western front was a side show compared to the East.
In retrospect, however, the attack on the Greer had not unfolded as FDR claimed. Rather than being the victim of a surprise attack by the German sub:
The Greer had deliberately stalked the German sub, having been alerted to its presence by a British plane. The British plane had attacked the U-boat with depth charges while the Greer continued in pursuit. The sub fired a few torpedoes, the Greer responded with a few depth charges, and the chase came to an uneventful end. There was no positive evidence, the navy told the president, that the sub knew the nationality of the ship at which it was firing.
Another naval clash a quarter of a century later would similarly help move the United States to war. As the facts of the Gulf of Tonkin incident also turned out to be different than what the president said at the time, Senator J. William Fulbright would remark, “Roosevelt’s deviousness in a good cause made it easier for Lyndon Johnson to practice the same kind of deviousness in a bad cause.”
Anyone looking at this guy’s messages please don’t listen to him he’s a pro fascist
The Japanese & Hitler had no idea what American Resoleve would entail . They found out .... DIDN'T THEY .
The US was on the wrong side.
Uh - Huh
@@retiredlawman4710 The only threat was from Communism.
@@MarkHarrison733Okay, fascist.
@@Ultimaton100 We should have helped the anti-Communist side.
Well Great Britain was happy as hell!
or at least relieved... Churchill knew that the vast industrial and agricultural might of the USA must eventually prevail.
You didnt mention the oil embargo ? Lame.
It wasn’t a justification for the attack.
@@Ultimaton100 It was.
@@easterworshipper730 Only according to ignorant revisionists. This was settled by int’l courts after the war.
@@Ultimaton100 Is not a revision, It was what happened. Take all the oil of a nation who Is in a Middle of a war and you gonna pay the price. Or what is the right version ? Japan atacked for no reason ? 😂
@@Ultimaton100 An economic blockade is a declaration of war.
Hitler never intended to invade the UK, and as soon as Stalin broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 28 June 1940 the OKW started preparing for Barbarossa.
We should have allied with Germany against the only threat.
We fought the wrong enemy, as Patton confirmed.
So many who are ignorant of history. No mention of the oil embargo by the US against Japan. As an island nation, FDR gave the Japanese no choice. Going back even further, in reading the biography of Teddy Roosevelt, especially his time conducting diplomacy after the Russia-Japan war, he repeatedly urged the Japanese to militarize and dominate East Asia. Facts.
Japan did have a choice, withdraw from China.
@@jdee8407 That was not an option.
@@MarkHarrison733 Yes it was. The hawks in the Japanese govt prevailed.
It always amazes me that people think this was a "Surprise."
Japan's navy did the same thing to the Russians and no one even reacted to the news, it was just business as usual on a global level. If it was okay to do against the Russians, why would Japan even consider that it wasn't going to be acceptable to do to the Americans? Especially after we denied them oil for their industries. (Yes, I know that part of that oil went to their military.)
It was a surprise the fact you argue all this shows how little you know and understand granted American education does a horrible job explaining this.
1st there wasn’t really global news at the time on the scale of today so not many actually knew about the attack outside mainly governments that didn’t care and didn’t get all the information outside the basics. 2 it was ok to do it to Russia in Japans eyes because Russia couldn’t retaliate the US could 3 the US didn’t deny them oil just refused to sell them their oil which they had the right to do and Japan found other oil fields anyway. Also the Soviet surprise attack was different from the attack on Pearl Harbor.
@@knightblade0188, actually, I learned that one in Japan. Same place I learned, according to their textbooks, that one day, for some inexplicable reason, America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
@@frankrobinsjr.1719 then there’s the problem Japans education on ww2 is honestly the worse.
@@knightblade0188 Roosevelt was informed on 4 December 1941 the Japanese were preparing to attack Pearl Harbor.
No mention of the US embargo on oil supplies to Japan that crippled it and left it with no choice but to go after resources.
Japan only needed to withdraw its invasion forces from China and the US would have lifted the embargo.
@@mikethespike7579 That may be the case but I thought it warranted a mention
in the video as a precursor to Pearl Harbor
@@BigArnieNumeroUno Of course, you're right. The embargo was the main reason for Japan.
The whole point of the japanese empire was (initially) to get land from mainland asia so Japan could be self sufficient. They weren't going to just leave all of the area they obtained through war. So that left FDR in a position to practically force war or to leave it be. luckily for the chinese and south east asia he chose war.
Exactly correct !!
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Japan had informed Hitler on 17 November 1941.
Not true
Germany was not responsible for ww1 whatsoever that’s why they were so pissed
They were blamed because they were the largest and most aggressive of Allies' enemies, although I know they had different names as well as leaders, even govt. types.
But Germans did the same thing to Czechoslovakia after Heydrich was assassinated that was done to them--they blamed the Czech villagers, who probably knew nothing about RH's death until they started getting executed and their villages razed; their families destroyed.
Germany was largely responsible for starting World War I because it's emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II was an arrogant, vain, aggressive unstable, megalomaniac who had designs on Europe and the world. Of course he was no Hitler and his ally Austria-Hungary deserves as much blame for starting the conflict with her aggressive policy towards the Balkans, especially Serbia.
Good video!
He didn’t end himself
@@TOCC50 Yes, he lived a long life in S. America.
The Tripartite Pact of 1940 between Japan, Nazi Germany and Italy stipulated that if one member was attacked the other two would come to it assistance. Japan was the aggressor by attacking Pearl Harbor. Therefore, Germany had no obligation to declare war on the United States.
The US was already at war with Germany, and it had attacked both Germany and Japan in April 1941.
By declaring war on the US, Germany could unleash his U boats in American waters. This was effective, and referred to by the U boat crews as the second happy time. He probably hoped that a combination of US distraction, U boat activity and his prejudices about Americans would starve Britain of supplies - food and war materials. Forcing the UK in to peace talks, freeing all those troops in Africa and France to move to the USSR. He gambled, but unlike Czechoslovakia, the Rhineland, Poland and France this one didn't work out for him. Thank goodness
The US committed suicide by siding with Communism.
Now China is the world superpower.
@@MarkHarrison733 Learn some history. It takes effort but it's worth it.
@@davidhoward4715 The US has lost every single war it has fought since the USSR won World War II.
The British are the reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. If England had not attacked the
Italians at Taranto then the Japanese might not have gotten the idea for Pearl Harbor
Rubbish
Crap, It just proved it could be done, nothing else.
It would certainly be useful to know if the IJN had planned, or wargamed, attacking a carrier fleet in port earlier than the Taranto Raid.
nope. Japan attacked China unprovoked. Italy attacked Abyssinia. Germany attacked Poland unprovoked. So they might have done it either way. So you are just speculating.
Germany: OK, fine. We did it. We will take responsibility for the horror of the World War…
Ten minutes later: Halte mein Bier.
LMAO, but I'm pretty sure no German would let another hold their Beer....😉🙃🤣
Except Germany was not entirely responsible for WWI, French supported Serbia was responsible. Germany was pulled into the war because of their agreement with Austria. Cran e was sore with Germany because they got their ass beat by Germany in 1872 and again getting a severe beat down in WWI. All the screws put to Germany after WWI was France's doing.
The whole thing was planned.
yes, and remember what patton had said, and then he was gone, soon after ww2
Hitler actually lost the war the moment he decided to invade and send German forces into the USSR. His reckless and foolish decision to flippantly declare war on the United States in the process, put the final nail in the Third Reich’s coffin and only expedited that loss.
Thank God Hitler decided to interfere and meddle in the Germans’ prosecution of the War; he was a military dilettante, strategically incompetent and tactically inept. If he had left the prosecution of the War up to the professional German military class, it all might have been a different story.
Stalin broke the pact first, and the US was already at war with Germany in 1940.
Neither Hitler nor the Japanese had any idea the U.S. could supply enough equipment and weapons for wars on 2 fronts. For every plain, tank, ship, truck, jeep, rifle and hand gun lost, the U.S. replaced it with 2.
The US was on the wrong side.
@@MarkHarrison733 ???? You wanted the U.S. to side with the nazi fascists of Germany and the imperialistic butchers of Japan? I suppose you’ll be voting for the egomaniacal snowflake Donnie Shitshispants Trump. Aka Private Bonespur, aka the Adderal addicted asshole. Aka Donnie Depends. Aka the rapist, convicted felon, fraudulent, 6 time bankrupt, antisemitic, racist adulterer. Maybe you should move to Russia. Donnie Dementia’s boyfriend, Vladie would love a simpleton just like you.
@@DFC-d1d We should have supported the anti-Communist side, as Patton confirmed.
Trump is a major Zionist, and many members of his family are Jewish.
Biden gave Putin the green light to invade Ukraine. He is also preventing Israel from winning in Gaza.
The US supplied Russia with 13thousand planes 14 thousand tanks Thousands andthousands of trucks plus God knows how much ammo. Throw in the brutal winter weather and the Russia people fighting for their very existence Germany had no shot.
@@dominicdavino252 The US was on the wrong side.
You forgot to mention that the US was supplying Axis enemies with munitions before the war started and had shut off Japan's oil supply lines.
Yes, shut off Japan's oil supplies when Japan was invading China under the belief that they (Japan) would be attacked by Russia while having nowhere to flee to; China would be a "buffer state". From what I've read, FDR didn't even want to shut down Japan's oil supply and knew it would mean war, but was coerced into doing so by State Department lawyer Dean Acheson. FDR allegedly found out about Acheson's meddling too late and was unable to alter the sanctions as Acheson had written.
@@enutrofdude Roosevelt was controlled by Morgenthau.
@@MarkHarrison733 ah more conspiracy theories from you
@@knightblade0188 See who Churchill blamed for Communism in February 1920.
@@enutrofdude If the US supplied the oil it was helping Japan, the aggressor, to invade China.
The US was not steadfastly isolationist nor did Pearl Harbor draw the US into the war. The US was already deeply involved in sending weapons to the UK and USSR while provoking Japan incessantly.
Provocation? lol
"Stop raping China or we won't do business with you anymore"
What a provocation.
Japan attacked America for the sole purpose of securing their Eastern flank while they stole the European colonies in Asia. They cynically assumed this neutral country with no defensive alliance with their future enemies would declare war on them, and heartlessly decided to murder its people during peace time to get an advantage over its military and strike a spiritual blow against a people they assumed were too weak to fight back. It was an arrogant crime their country paid dearly for, and nothing more.
Allies
I can tell you what his reaction was 📞"Hallo Japan. How is it going my dude...👀💦 You did what???!????....Oh.....Mein.....Gott.."
In June 1940 the Soviets had overrun the Baltic States and Bessarabia and northern Bukovina.
Since this put Ploesti - where nearly two-thirds of German oil came from - a two-day journey by tanks from the new border, Hitler started planning Barbarossa.
Not true at all Germany was planning an attack on the Soviets for awhile because they hated communism.
@@knightblade0188 We should have allied with Germany against the only threat.
@@Jeremy-y1t you are a horrible person. Do I agree the Soviets were a problem yes but so to was Germany you’d have us support genocide of millions for you sick ideas.
@@knightblade0188 Hutton Gibson told the real truth about that, as had Franco in 1945.
@@MarkHarrison733 they gave their opinions kid
In the 1920s, Churchill approved of Mussolini and Italian fascism because he had been prepared to do much the same in Britain, if it had been necessary. He opposed Hitler as part of the same anti-German struggle that he had helped launch in 1914.
It was only later that mainstream opinion chose to re-define World War II as anti-fascist, at a time when Germans were needed as Cold War allies.
Sure keep thinking that you need to get out a touch grass
@@knightblade0188 "With the fascist regime, Mussolini has established a centre of orientation from which countries which are engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle with socialism must not hesitate to be guided." - Churchill.
@@knightblade0188 See why Churchill supported eugenics.
Sorry dude, but your entire thesis in this video is vastly altered by your omitting a super-critical fact about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I don't know if you do this ignorantly or knowingly, but there is utterly no excuse for you not knowing and including this fact either way, and discussing its obvious implications to not just your thesis in this video, but to the entire history of the war itself.
This fact is the private admission of then Secretary of War Henry Stimson to the effect of: "The trick would be to maneuver them [the Japanese] into firing the first shot." That statement changes everything. We are brought up to consider the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as both "dastardly" and a "surprise." But it was neither. If indeed we "maneuvered" the Japanese into firing the first shot, that means that ** WE ** provoked the war, NOT the Japanese. That changes EVERYTHING.
But why would FDR et. al. want to provoke the Japanese to attack us, and to make the war falsely appear to be their villainy? Since the US population was for the most part isolationist prior to the war, FDR and the self-admitted warmonger Churchill needed a good reason to sway public opinion in favor of war, not just against Japan, but also against Germany. FDR was also pushing the boundaries initially with the "lend-lease" program to Britain as it was, and his pro-war actions were viewed askance by many Americans. But not so after Pearl Harbor.
Since it was clear prior to Pearl Harbor that FDR and Churchill were in favor of war with Germany, contrary to the national public opinion at the time, they needed to rally the people as well into war with Germany.
I am so damn sick of false WW2 history by the likes of people such as yourself. Yea, you get the battles and so forth correctly identified, but you completely miss what was going on behind the scenes and behind closed doors, and the real reasons and motivations for the war.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, documents were discovered (though later under Putin were clapped away tightly again) that revealed Stalin's plans to suddenly invade western Europe (in spiite of Molotov and Ribbentrop seemingly being so cozy at the time) within a few weeks but certainly less than one month after Germany's operation Barbarossa, to invade the Soviet Union. Hmmm. If Germany hadn't invaded the Soviet Union when they did, I wonder how far Stalin would have made it across Europe in 1940 before being stopped? Or perhaps Stalin would have made it all the way to the Atlantic coast in Portugal?
I have a video taken many years ago in a Dutch war museum, where the tour guide was giving the "standard" or "politically correct" version of history to the tourists in the museum. But there were also in attendance at the time among the tourists a few surviving German Wehrmacht veterans, who tried to explain to the stubborn and ignorant tour guide how the German W3hrmacht actually prevented Stalin from getting much farther than he did, or would have wanted to go, across western Europe. As it was, towards the war's end, Stalin did take over several European countries. before encountering the western armies of Patton and Montgomery, and there set up communist "puppet states," viz, Poland, "East Germany," Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and Yugoslavia (and nearly Austria). Or was this perhaps FDR and Churchill's intentions all along to enable Stalin to do just that that? At the very least this demonstrates Stalin's intentions to take over and "communize" as much of western Europe as possible. Were FDR and Churchill that ignorant? I think not. FDR at the time did have a nasty reputation in the US at times for ignoring the US Constitution, and doing rather what he pleased, or rather what pleased some of his "advisors."
I wish that these two GLARING omissions or falsehoods about WW2 history were the only ones. So sad. But don't take my word for it, but do your own homework, but be careful that you don't overlook sources that the politically correct establishment doesn't want you to investigate.
I'm now 71. I grew up as a baby boomer in the period after the war, where all the Dads of all my friends were WW2 veterans. My father drove trucks on the Burma Road. I grew up under the daily and constant threat of nuclear annihilation in a war with the Soviet Union. We had repeated air-raid drills in my elementary school out on Long Island, in the suburbs of New York City, where my father worked at the time. I find it abhorrent how so many in our current "woke" culture and even in our political establishments are so sympathetic to the thoroughly proven-to-be-disastrous communist system. I later served a career as an officer in the US Air Force, and I got to fly jets for my country. Good thing I didn't learn about all this "unspoken" war history until after my career, or it might have affected the quality of my service. As it is, I hardly have any trust left in my government, especially under the present "administration."
I'll close with a few quotes from a man that I refuse to honor and idolize as so many unfortunately do, Winston "the Warmonger" Churchill:
"We will force this war upon Hitler, if he wants it or not." (Winston Churchill, 1936 broadcast)
"This war is an English war, and its goal is the destruction of Germany." (Winston Churchill, Autumn 1939 broadcast)
"The war wasn't only about abolishing fascism, but to conquer sales markets. We could have, if we had intended so, prevented this war from breaking out without doing one shot, but we didn't want to." (Winston Churchill to Truman Fultan, USA, March 1946)
"Germany's unforgivable crime before the second world war was her attempt to extricate her economic power from the world's trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance its opportunity for profit." (Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speaking to Lord Robert Boothby)
"Perhaps the next time round the way to do it will be to kill women, children and the civilian population." (Winston Churchill, quoted during the first World War, "The Telegraph," November 19, 2002. NOTE: this is EXACTLY what happened in the last months of WW2, with principally the English carpet bombing vast German population centers by night, with little military value, but which ended up murdering as Churchill had previously threatened to do, "women, children, and the civilian population," as in Dresden Hamburg, Berlin, Lubeck, Duren, and many, many other German cities.)
"What we want, is for the German economy to be completely smashed" "Was wir wollen ist, dass die deutsche Wirtschaft vollkommen zusammengeschiagen wird." (Winston Churchill, speaking of the German-Polish dispute over access to Germany's East Prussia, before any hostilities at all had broken out.)
Buy the way WInston Churchill preferred his prostitutes to have "ginger" (or to us Yanks, "red') hair. In honor of this fact, some of Winston's friends gave him a birthday gag gift one year of a red-yellow or "Ginger"-haired tabby cat
The atomic bomb attacks did not push Japan to surrender. The firebombing of Tokyo killed more people than both of the atomic bomb attacks and Tokyo was the Capital of Japan.
They surrendered because of the USSR's declaration of war against them and subsequent attack.
Hitler was foolish to declare war on the US even considering the extreme provocations by FDR.
Japan had not helped Hitler against the USSR.
Japan judged that Stalin's will to fight couldn't be broken and therefore did not help the Nazis out of fear of Stalin.
Even up to the end, Japan didn't respect the US and our people. They thought they could break our will to fight. They kept deluding themselves about that and thinking they could force a negotiated peace. Losing two cities didn't change their minds.
The part that most history books don't tell is that by the time of the Japanese surrender, the US was producing enough fissionable material that we could have spent all of the rest of 1945 and all of 1946 destroying a different city each week.
Keeping that in mind, the USSR actually saved Japan from extinction by declaring war on them.
Life is weird sometimes!
Didn't the imperial japanese leaders record what happened any why? Do you have any sources that show it was manchuria that made them surrender and not the bombs?
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There was 10 more bombs ready to go. Decades earlier, the Russo Japan War ended with Russia giving up having its fleet decimated. Fun theory but doubtful.
The truth is that Japan was hoping for the Soviets to step in and mediate more favorable surrender terms with the US and Britain. When the USSR declared war on Japan that option was out the window, which is why Hirohito had no choice but to accept unconditional surrender. They didn't do so because they were more afraid of Russians than the Americans, although they may have preferred to be occupied by American forces due to the Soviets' reputation for robbing and pillaging conquered territories.
I believe it was both. The Japanese knew the Americans would be the better option to surrender to.
No, not even Germany thought that and he anyway still broke the non-aggression treaty. Denmark was among the founding members of UN
Stalin broke the pact first.
The UN should be disbanded.
Major correction required. In early 20th century Japan, the government had civilian rule which was a new concept to the empire. The military did not have formal political power and regularly ignored the orders of the japanese government in the 30s. By the time of the war declaration, they were basically a rogue military. This is very common in eastern governments, and the Chinese military also regularly goes rogue and makes its own decisions against the CCP. In the end, force was the thing holding them up and the military couped the civilian government. It had considerable popular support as the parliament was considered weak and incompetent.
Admiral Yamamoto of Japan was aware Japan had "awokened a sleeping giant", with the attack on the U.S. Hitler, apparently, was not aware of that.
Fake quotation.
@@MarkHarrison733Even if true, irrelevant, as the point remains the same. Yamamoto knew from his time as a naval attaché in the U.S. that his country couldn’t hope to win a war of attrition against us.
@@Ultimaton100 The US started the war.
@@Ultimaton100 The US was on the wrong side.
That saying was never spoken.
I think a very important missed detail in this video is that FDR essentially forced the Japanese to go to war with the USA by placing an oil embargo on Japan due to the invasion of China. Japan had to find oil somehow and while it could have opted to invade the south and avoid the Philippines, they felt that the USA would find another way to enter the war with Japan so close in the neighborhood and decided it was better to attack first.
From Hitler's point of view, the USA was already at war with Germany by supplying Great Britain. It was initially an advantage for Germany to declare war because their submarines could enter US waters and start wreaking havoc on the shipping. But this advantage was short-lived as the USA ramped up for war and had too much economic might for Germany to keep up with.
The USA contributed to the war and saved Great Britain from defeat but Russia was an unstoppable war machine that surprised the Germans with their never-ending war machines and supplies. It was less about the USA defeating Germany and more about the USA liberating France before the Russians took the entire continent.
The Russian war machine was supplied by the USA.The amount of equipment is staggering, everything from food, medical equipment,hi octane fuel,plate steel,explosives machinery, trucks ,tanks aircraft ect,ect.Without it the Russians would look d not h ave been able to overcome the German invasion.
@@maurotolari9215 Most Lend-Lease for the USSR did not arrive until late 1943.
@@MarkHarrison733 NO early 1942. You are wrong!
@@balancedactguy Late 1943 actually. And most of it was useless.
Do NOT touch the boats!
lmfao! I love HLC too.
Perhaps if germany supplied japan with modern weapons,it may have helped,i understand that plans for German planea and tanks were sent by U-boat.
4:40 "Hitler and Germany had no choice but to honor their treaty with Japan"
Adolph Hitler? The guy who violated pretty much every treaty obligation and international agreement he ever made? He had no choice but to honor a treaty with a country on the other side of the globe who could do nothing about it if he didn't?
He never violated an agreement or a treaty.
@@MarkHarrison733 I love how someone can just blurt out ridiculously false assertions and I'm the one left scrambling to gather evidence for what is plainly true.
He violated the terms of the Versailles Treaty by increasing the size of the German army beyond the treaty limit of 100,000.
He violated it by introducing conscription.
By introducing tanks.
By the creation of the Luftwaffe.
By the building of U-Boats.
He violated it in 1936 by reoccupying the Rhineland.
But those were all under the Versailles Treaty, so he wasn't violating any agreement that he himself had made.
He invaded and annexed the rump state of Czechoslovakia in violation of the Munich Agreement whereby the Sudetenland would be ceded to Germany but the rest of Czechoslovakia would remain independent.
After giving assurances that he had no more territorial demands, he invaded Poland in September, 1939.
After having secured the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939, a non-aggression pact guaranteeing peace between Germany and the USSR for 10 years, Hitler blatantly and openly violated it less than two years later by launching an all-out surprise attack on the USSR with the goal of its utter destruction.
I would *_love_* to hear how none of these count as violating a treaty or agreement. Everybody at the time regarded them as violations, including the Germans, including Hitler, who expressed contempt towards any treaties or agreements meant to curtail Germany's destiny. Referring to Chamberlain and other foreign leaders as "worms."
@@Guitcad1 The Treaty of Versailles caused World War I.
Poland and Hungary invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938-39, which is why the USSR invaded Poland in 1939.
Stalin broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 28 June 1940.
@@Guitcad1
1) There's nothing wrong with violating a treaty which was forced upon a country by threat of occupation.
2) The Munich Agreement was never violated. This is a common misconception, but Hitler only told Chamberlain that there would not be any further territorial advances against the Czechs for any reason, this was not stated in the agreement. Germany reserved the right to intervene in any crisis, and they did to during the 1939 Czech-Slovak crisis.
3) The invasion of Poland is diplomatically complex in terms of the leadup, but, regardless, Poland and Germany no longer had a pact of non-aggression.
4) Yes, the Germans were the first ones to abandon the Soviet pact, after Stalin refused a friendly alliance. Everyone knows that the USSR would have broken it if the Germans didn't do so first. But, sure. This was a treaty broken.
@@againsttheleftandright4065 Great. What you've done is to show the sort of gymnastics it takes to argue that Hitler never violated a treaty. You're playing "Simon Says." If that's what abiding by a treaty looks like then any treaty is pretty much worthless.
Also, "There's nothing wrong with violating a treaty which was forced upon a country by threat of occupation."
So you do acknowledge that he violated it, you just don't think violating it was wrong.
History is written by those who hang heros
Churchill had extended Lend-Lease to the USSR in July 1941.
The US was already at war in 1940, as Admiral King had confirmed at the time.
Raeder had been pressing for the Second Happy Time to begin since March 1941.
Heads up he’s a conspiracy theorist don’t pay attention to him.
@@knightblade0188 Lend-Lease meant the US was already at war.
@@MarkHarrison733 no lend lease was the US supplying nations at war. This has been something nations have been doing before the US existed and they were not considered at war either . Stop being a Nazi supporter please and stop listening to propaganda.
@@knightblade0188 Admiral King confirmed in 1940 that the US was already at war with Germany.
Lend-Lease was a declaration of war, like shoot on sight and the illegal Destroyers for Bases deal.
The US was on the wrong side in both world wars.
@@MarkHarrison733 No it did not.
Germany was doomed the second they invaded The Soviet Union.
They had to invade the Soviet Union; they were running out of oil. What doomed them is their failure to capture the Caucasus oil fields.
@@jdee8407 Until they invaded The Soviet Union they were supplying them oil. Remember they started out the war as allies.
@@matthewhuszarik4173 yeah but it was only a fraction of what they needed at a ridiculously high price. And why do you think they were willing to pay it, because they needed it so badly.
@@matthewhuszarik4173 Stalin had threatened to cut Germany off from its main oil supply in June 1940.
@@MarkHarrison733 Ah no. In 2/1940 Russia signed a trade pact with Nazi Germany guaranteeing 900,000tons of oils per year along with grain and all the raw materials Nazi Germany needed for its war machine.
Hitler had 'no choice' but to declare war on the USA? Dude, read a book....
He never declared war.
We were far from the only neutral nation. The British and French were not eager for war, as Munich proved. Considering their casualties in WW1, who can blame them? But we lost 116,000 troops to combat and disease and got nothing in return. Why should we have been eager to go to war?
To stop German aggression and Nazi atrocities.
@@davidhoward4715 The only "aggression" was from the Allies.
They committed the same war crimes as the Axis.
making money?
In June 1940 the Soviets had overrun the Baltic States and Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. Since this put Ploesti - where nearly two-thirds of German oil came from - a two-day journey by tanks from the new border, Hitler started planning Barbarossa.
Stalin broke the German-Soviet Commercial Agreement in August 1940, before breaking the German-Soviet Commercial Agreement in August 1940.
That is wrong too
@@balancedactguy Churchill confirmed it.
@@MarkHarrison733 Churchill never did...fake History from a BOT here!
@@balancedactguy He confirmed it to Eden.
@@MarkHarrison733
Poland fell to kosher totalitarianism and the Brits lost their empire. Churchill was the greatest monster of the 20th century.
Churchill was a gentleman and a great hero of the Commonwealth, who successfully saved the free world.
take a look at them now.
This video is highly inaccurate.
There was no binding treaty between Germant and Japan against the US, only against the Soviet Union (and even that was defensive).
Germany declared war on the United States because the latter has been engaged in unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic against German submarines, effectively fighting agermany at sea, without a war declaration.
Germany's declaration of war read like an acknowledgement of war rather than a declaration
The US was already at war in 1940.
Germany did have a choice. The pact did not require declaring war on the U.S., only giving Japan unspecified assistance. Also Germany could have said, as Italy did in WWII to its allies, that the pact was a defensive pact and only applied to an unprovoked attack. As the video says, Germany should have done everything it could to keep the U.S. out of the war, just as Germany in 1917 should have done everything it could to keep the U.S. out of WWI. In both cases, the miscalculations led inevitably to Germany's defeat in both wars.
The US was already at war with Germany.
The US chose to support Britain and France in 1914.
@@MarkHarrison733 1940***
@@againsttheleftandright4065 1914 and 1939.
It is flatly incorrect that Hitler was surprised by Japan's attack on US and British interests. Theu just didn't know where, hence Hitler and his High Command's bemusement at the Wolf's Lair on Dec 7 (the Axis cooperation was very poor in WW2). But not long before the air and sea attacks on Pearl and other Oahu bases, the Japanese had contacted both Germany and Italy to ask, 'If we go now [attack the US and presumably the UK / Dutch) are you in it with us? [i.e. will you both declare war on the US]?. The answer from Rone and Berlin was 'absolutely yes (Hitler felt he needed the Japanese navy in play as he was sure the US was already heavily aiding USSR and the UK and would enter the war soon anyway).
I wonder if the Nazis closely followed the pacific war, especially from Coral Sea and Midway onwards.
The best "what if" question I've heard is: What if Hitler had quit while he was ahead?
Not much of a history buff tho
For someone who isn't a history buff, you posed an awesome what-if question.
Depends on when he was ahead? Hitler wanted to quit after several times; Churchill would have none of it.
@@iriemon1796 Churchill had been bribed by Strakosch.