Normally I fully agree with many of your historical arguments. But I would like to point out that it was not declaring war on the United States that ruined Germany, it was declaring war on the Soviet Union.
Japan’s mistake was committing atrocities with foreign reporters present. If they had better PR they may have been seen as heroic. But the leadership grew evil. After the atrocities the U.S. sanctioned Japan and stopped trading oil and other war materials. This left Japan without the materials necessary for a continued protracted war. Japan had to withdraw or attack the U.S. It took an utter defeat to stop Japanese aggression. They really needed the years and experiences it took Europe to move out of the feudal system to the modern age. Japan took a short cut. Germany for instance did a very good job of justifying their actions and delaying actions and swaying public opinion. Japan did quite have that experience.
One major problem that both Germany and Japan would have encountered in invading the US is the massive amount of guns in civilian hands. Invading a country is one thing, controlling it is quite another.
@@knightblade0188 While there may have been a kernel of truth in this, the number of privately held weapons wasn't the issue many like to think. Sure, a higher percentage of households had a firearm, but many (perhaps most) of these would have been single shot or double barrel shotguns, rim fire rifles and perhaps a few center fire repeating rifles like lever actions or bolt actions, with a few revolvers in the mix. Not exactly military style weapons. That said, the owners of these arms likely were very skilled in their use. On the other hand, the US populace was far more rural, which means that trying to hold any significant territory would require huge numbers of troops. More than any country could likely ship overseas and supply.
uh no i still cant find any mention of this so called obsession you speak of. he barely ever mentions it. personal appearance didnt matter much to the average german who was standing in bread lines for 4 hr a day
What ruined Germany in 41 was the declaration of war on the soviet union, plus blunders on various war fronts in 42. The USA is not the only hero in this ww2 story
Id argue the invasion of the USSR wasn’t the mistake but how it was handled. You had two groups clashing over what the main objective should be and as a result both were underprepared due to splitting things up.
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Slightly different. In the show, German and Japan have a treaty in which Japan gets all land west of the Rocky Mountains. But Germany does have plans to break the treaty and push Japan out. Pretty interesting show.
@WarpstormChronicles Ugh ... yeah I'm in s03 now only watching now due to the sunk cost fallacy. I have to know how it ends. Pls pls tell me it gets better! 😒
Trouble with that, Hitlers big mistake wasn't declaring war on the US. That made no difference whatsoever. The US was already at war and it would have been a matter of time before the US cleared out Japan's ally. His mistake was not taking Moscow when he got the chance. Had he ignored Kyiv and focused on capturing Stalin, it would have been game over
It absolutely was his mistake my grandfather who fought in WW2 said most Americans didn't really care about Germany until after we found out about the concentration camps. We were mainly concerned about not dying in Europe for European wars. Even after Pearl Harbor, until Germany declared war on us Germany was and after thought. He doesn't declare war on us no massive supply line to the Soviets and British Empire to help keep them in the war.
@@LavitosExodius who took Berlin? It wasn't Americans. Who was winning the war before D-Day? Stalin. German's were being killed in droves before you guys even woke up. Also, contrary to popular belief, Japan didn't surrender after the bomb, but after Stalin began the assault on China 3 days later. America played her part, I won't take that from no one. But to effectively claim you won the war in Europe single handed is ridiculous
Taking Moscow would not have been the end. You can ask Nepoleon. Russia was just too big for the Germans to digest. Germany was running out of troops and their logistics was a nighmare. Russia had many of their factories moved to the Ural area. One other thing. Japan never had any chance against the US and they knew it, they hoped we would not want to fight. That was their mistake.
This used to be one of my favorite YT channels but not anymore... It's always the same content just recycled. This has got to be at least the 10th video on "Hitler's plans If he had won"...
@@TheForging he didn’t completely ignore them as he let them do what they wanted while trying to do what he wanted to but honestly the eastern front would’ve gone better if he had ignored them. His generals believed taking Moscow would end the war while he believed it’d be better to take Russias oil fields and they attempted to do both spreading low resources thin.
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He wouldn’t have been able to handle the logistics of a US invasion. He would have lost half, if not more of his troops and equipment on his way to the mainland.
Not Really. Cause of his Control of England he would also have Control of Canada allowing him to Land troops there and organising a massive land invasion from Canada
Like to point out a few things. 1.Germanys main mistake was NOT atacking usa that was japan. 2.there main mistake was declaring was on the soviet union not america 3.this is like the 9th? Video on this topic
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This is all based on the idea that he was trying to "take over the world" like some sort of action movie villain. He wasn't. He wanted to recover land that previously belonged to the Germans. He didn't even want to go to war; it was Poland's unwillingness to negotiate (along with their murdering of thousands of Germans in the Polish corridor) that forced his hand. And after the invasion started, it was Britain (or more accurately, the people who quietly controlled Britain...) who escalated it into a world war.
Don't count on any western media to emphasize the importance of the Danzig corridor issue ....... or Stalin's countless forward staging bases for aircraft and tanks near their border .... it all has to be a story told from one side of the beach ball (ours)
At the end of WW II, a German officer being interrogated mentioned a river in the NE U.S. He then mentioned towns and details of the area. When asked how he knew so much, he said that he would have been the administrator for that region of the U.S. if the Germans had won the war.
There's nothing special about Stalin. The mistake was the strategy in carrying it out. I.e. in the winter without any solid resupply plan. I don't know how someone that dumb got to that level in politics.
Declaring war on the U.S. was definitely a mistake. But I would say there are some very good arguments that the Soviet Union could have eventually won the war without us.
I don't think so. USA wasn't much of a threat to Germany, but Soviet Union was a big mistake since they were the strongest at the time. I mean Russians alone was really strong.
Americans really do think they were the major factor that "saved the world" from the Nazis... Sorry to say it 'Muricans; but Russia did most of the grunt work, and while America certainly helped Britain in opening up a second front they were preparing for one anyway; they stood alone at the beginning of the war because, thanks to Neville Chamberlain, they didn't prepare for war until it was too late, but by 1944 they had recruited and trained millions of troops from across the British Empire and where planning to invade Southern Europe via North Africa, until the Americans persuaded them to invade via Northern France instead.
As an American whose father fought on the North African and European fronts in WWII, I disagree that Americans think we were the heroes of WWII. We contributed to the defeat of the Nazis, but we were late to get involved, not nearly as effective as the Russians and of no more importance than other allies. We did do the heavy lifting on the Pacific front.
@@tykemorris Yeah, on the pacific front it's obviously known that we were the heros but in Europe it was for sure the Soviets and British, but we did carry D-Day and battle of the bulge, also logistics wise we supplied all of the Allied forces due to joining late with fresh supplies and being a industrial powerhouse. I agree with you but we were for sure the heros in WW2, in a equal standing with the Soviet Union and Britain.
The AI voice sounds like the normal narrator but it’s super obvious it’s not by the complete lack of emotion in the voice and sudden stops in speech that just cut off. It’s kind of grating when you know how well it usually sounds.
Yeah greed eventually brings everything down, it’s not a mistake it’s unavoidable but having said that control of Europe itself would never have been stable longterm anyway… maybe he realised he was ultimately doomed and just tried to flex big until his time ran out. Only a fool thinks endless greed is a successful strategy for anything. Today’s big corporations will find that out too if they don’t adapt and break the chains of the eventual capitalism catastrophe. Nothing can survive greed, it is inherently self destructive by its fundamental nature
Seeing how the US turned out its fair to say that we should've at least heard the other side out in ww2. To quote general patton: "We may have been fighting the wrong enemy all along".
I mean they did listen to the other side after the war, basically almost all the fascists from the cold war where supported by the US to counter communism
2:19 That is not completely correct. The attack authorization message “新高山登れ 1208” or "Niitakayama nobore 1208” was sent to the attack fleet on December 2. This translates into English as "Climb Mount Niitaka 1208.” Niitakayama is the Japanese term for Mount Yushan (Jade Mountain) in what is today called Taiwan, at the time held by the Japanese Empire. The meaning was “All units proceed according to the plan for December 8.” The reference to December 8 was according to the time in Japan, on the other side of the International Date Line. The signal “Tora, tora, tora” or “Tiger, tiger, tiger,” was not the instruction to attack. That was the outgoing signal from the attackers, indicating that the attack was proceeding and that surprise had been achieved. The real-time tactics computer game franchise "Wargame" has an expansion called "Red Dragon," in which one of the campaigns is called "Climb Mount Narodnaia.” The scenario concerns a fictional military conflict between the Warsaw Pact and Japan in 1984. The word is a derivation of the Russian root word narod, and the intent is to suggest "Climb the People's Mountain" or "Climb the Mountain of the People."
a good visual representation of what would happen if we lost the war is the show “the man in the high castle”. it’s based on fiction but it is amazingly great
First of all , there is no way that the Royal Navy, would be captured. It would have been moved to Canada. From there it would join the rapidly growing US navy. Capturing the US would have been impossible.
You should do what if Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard got an annulment and were sent away what would there lives have been like as the years progressed
Some pushback from the jump: Germany only declared war on us because we declared war on Japan after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor (granted this was due to us embargoing their oil shipments but that's still not a good reason to do what they did)
The thing is, the US would be too difficult for Germany to control. You have to cross a vast ocean. You have to control a huge land mass. I don't think Germany could fully control the entire Continental US. Plus, German soldiers would be met by literally millions of armed US civilians who would fight them to the death in every corner of the US.
