How America Became an Empire - Pacific War #0.4 DOCUMENTARY 

Podcast with more info: thepacificwar.podbean.com Pacific War Prelude 0.1 - How Europe Colonized Asia: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MEgIHN63ojU.html Pacific War Prelude 0.2 - How the Meiji Restoration Turned Japan into an Empire: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rHgbG1HsIrY.html Pacific War Prelude 0.3 - Rise of Ultranationalism in Japan: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7vQ6nxBRGd8.html

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This is absolutely mind blowing. I had no idea that the Americans had anticipated a sudden naval attack by the Japanese since way back then. And man, these visual graphics are getting way better and better by every video!

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Surprisingly very realpolitik, which is a refreshing take on the history.

America's complex and oftentimes hypocritical relationship with imperialism is so fascinating to me. Like here, the US was one of the only nations determined to support China, not only for economic reasons, but also a regional counterbalance and peacekeeping state with the USSR and the Empire of Japan. The US also aggressively advocated for European withdrawal from Asia. At the Same time, America had control over the Philippines, a nation of 100 million. America was a minor colonial power to be sure, but a conflicted one stuck in a battle between its staunch anti-authoritarian national ideology, its sense of national destiny and its pursuit of power.

Sounds incredibly similar to what Britain did in Europe throughout its history. Support different sides in every war to keep a balance of power that was favourable to its own interests

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Before the United States colonised Hawaii in a coup d'état, there was a proposal from the Kingdom of Hawaii that the Japanese Imperial Family should marry into the Kingdom of Hawaii to form an alliance. At the time, Japan was not very forthcoming(they wanted but didnt do a action), worried about its relationship with the US... One can only imagine what history would have been like if this alliance had been formed.

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I was really expecting that they would talk about the Philippine-American War.

A great video would be how the Philippines became the last European-style colonialism by the US. The war to occupy the Philippines, which was brutal, sharply divided Americans that it probably dissuaded any future attempts to do the same elsewhere.

Funny thing about Japan, it always seems to be about five years ahead of everyone else. Kind of like Bowie, but HE was always at least ten years ahead of the competition. Great video, I had forgotten a lot of this. Thank you for jogging my memory. 🏆

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Although this video just glosses this over. When the Philippines were sold to the US by Spain after the Spanish-American war, the Filipinos were not happy having another colonizer rule them, so they fought against them. And for 3 years, America fought a war in the Philippines, of which they committed brutal atrocities such as putting Filipinos into concentration camps, massacres like in Samar when the US commander ordered his men to kill everyone over the age of 10, torturing people using the so called "Water cure" along with burning down villages and killing defenseless civilians in the process, and in the end, more than 200,000-1,000,000 Filipinos have lost their lives to warfare, disease, malnutrition and atrocities. And when these atrocities were brought to the US government and the public,they were appalled and shocked, and after the war, America no longer had the stomach to have more colonies and ended the Manifest Destiny claim to take more land. And after the war, America invested alot of money and resources into rebuilding the Philippines and organising the government to give Filipinos more autonomy and self governance as soon as possible, and granting the Filipinos even more rights than before with the US extending the Bill of Rights to Filipinos, along with improving education and healthcare, introduced social programs and trained the Philippine army, because the US felt so guilty for having the Philippines as a colony and massacring their people that they wanted to make sure that the Philippines would have great accomodations under their rule, and worked hard with Filipino politicians to grant the Philippines independence as soon as possible, the US was very determined to give the Philippines independence, that it reformed and built up the government more than America's other colonies like Puerto Rico and Guam. That our Commonwealth government was established much earlier than the rest of the colonies and were granted independence before Hawaii could even be a state

Here is how the Pacific war is explained in other documentaries: Japan attacked pearl harbor and the USA responded that's it there's no why, how and for what. Thank you kings and generals

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Can you also make a video about the Philippine-American war... lol

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In what world was manifest destiny "not by force of arms in most cases?"

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Yes. This was fairly well done. The problem here would be the importance placed on the Non-Fortification Clause. The PI was pretty much doomed because of Pearl Harbor. Then - as with the British in Malaya and the Dutch in Indonesia the defense of the PI was mismanaged. In the PI they had 8 hours of warning and yet - still managed to have most of their planes caught on the ground. Then MacArthur tried to contain the Japanese Landings north of Manila - and was sending all his supplies up there - which were (I believe) lost when the PI Army collapsed. Thus - when they tried to fall back on fortress Bataan - there was no food there. MacArthur really should have been Court Martialled like Kimmel and Short and for the same reasons. I mean at least Kimmel and Short were surprised(!). So - what you had in the Western Pacific amongst the Allies was being in Japan's back yard, military forces that were, over all, too weak, with what there was oriented towards Germany and mismanagement of the forces they did have - that resulted in the massive Western Defeats they suffered. More fortifications might have helped but ... not enough to make a real difference. After Pearl Harbor any chance at all of Plan Orange being executed was gone. The massive naval building program started before the war - was what turned things around for us - but that would have needed to be done much, much sooner. .

Can’t help but feel like Manifest Destiny was described in rather tame fashion. It was a violent and bloody process.

I love this! Yes! Treat the american empire the same as any other in a history series! Yes!!

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Manifest destiny was a euphemism as much as Germany s "living space" was.