Why Japan Decided to Attack America - Pacific War #0.7 DOCUMENTARY

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The new Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues with a video on the reasons why Japan decided to attack America, Britain, Netherlands and others.
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@KingsandGenerals 2 года назад

Pacific War Podcast: 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 Pacific War Prelude 0.4 - How America Became an Empire: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DY2CUazAaaY.html Pacific War Prelude 0.5 - China at War: China at War: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TnYHe80ZvBw.html Pacific War Prelude 0.6 - War in Europe: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U4EdDCZ4pCA.html

@user-xf5sx7cn2x 2 года назад

I hope you add arabic language to the translation in the next sections your followers are from the Arabs and thank you

@owo5869 2 года назад

Loot all and burn all in the wrong position qwq

@hoangvu9360 2 года назад

Wonder what the title of next video is

@gra4279 2 года назад

Please don't forget to mention the naval bombardment of Pearl Harbor as well, the Japanese had begun bombarding the entire town of Pearl Harbor that fateful morning due to a large naval vessel stationed out in the ocean. This is verified by men that were there on that day, civilians and servicemen shared the horrors of war together

@kaltaron1284 2 года назад

Just binged the last few videos. Great work. Out of curiosity I checked different Wikipedia articles on the 2nd Sino-Japanese War on what they had to say about the conquest of Nanking. The results were interesting. German: At least 300k casualties English: 40,000 to 300,000 between 13 December 1937, and late January 1938 killed or wounded Japanese: No numbers, they kill it 事件 (Jiken, incident/event) and mention discussion and controversy and link to subpages for both the "event" and the "discussion", I haven't checked those yet. To be fair the page for the war is really bare-bones and is more a timetable than an article. Fascinating how different they are. I wonder what the Chinese one is like but I don't speak Chinese but they seem to talk of "the slaughtering of at least 200k until January 38".

@TheMaltesefalcon204 2 года назад

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@bewertsam 2 года назад

You can never play too much HOI4

@vinnie19971 2 года назад

Man, Imagine if they could combine HoI4 with Men of War. And you get something like Total War.

@ShahjahanMasood 2 года назад

HOI4 is opium. We are China. A match made in heaven.

@Latinkon 2 года назад

@@vinnie19971 Still waiting for that dream strategy game that has a campaign map with the Paradox game mechanics but with the real time battles of franchises like Total War, Men of War, etc.

@michaelguay-lachapelle4546 2 года назад

@@bewertsam Or play at HOI3 Black ice mod because we like complexity and not being held by the hand. HOI4 is too easy.

@wardreken 2 года назад

This series has been absolutely amazing, the work you guys do can definitely rival documentaries made by big organizations, keep it up guys!

@AriusBLK 2 года назад

True

@pedroperez6676 2 года назад

Rival?? More like put to shame!

@alijade3521 2 года назад

and its only getting starteeeed

@northernlegolas 2 года назад

Totally agree

@shanebraaten9553 2 года назад

Already got them beat in my book...

@napoleonibonaparte7198 2 года назад

“It would take them years to build another fleet.” USA: *You underestimate my power!*

@skuggsja6020 2 года назад

*Doom music kicks in on factory intercom system*

@TheZachary86 2 года назад

The Japanese didn’t even completely destroy the fleet. Most of them survived.

@JohnJohn-pe5kr 2 года назад

@@TheZachary86 You are correct The USS Nevada served in D-Day Fleet and bombarded Omaha Beach on June 6th, 1944.

@barbiquearea 2 года назад

@@TheZachary86 and they were able to build many more warships, with superior technology and armaments than the IJN.

@aizseeker3622 2 года назад

@@JohnJohn-pe5kr Upgrade people, upgrade

@juankovacs6033 2 года назад

16:50 Yamamoto knew very well the industrial capabilities of the US and opposed the war. Said himself that they have around 1 year (not yearS) after the attack at Pearl Harbor to invade SE Asia and Oceania before the American Navy could retaliate. He travelled to the USA before the war, graduated at Harvard, visited the Detroit and Chicago industrial areas and the Texas oil fields, and lastly was designated naval liaison in Washington for 3 years, so he knew what he was talking about.

@juankovacs6033 2 года назад

@jim not talking about those quotes. I'm talking about the fact he knew Japan would have 1 year (not years as stated in the vid) after the attack before USN could mount any strategic offensive. I think he was the only one who understood the economic and industrial power US was. But I agree it was the begining of the end for the Japanese Empire.

@kaltaron1284 2 года назад

@jim AFAIK that quote is apocryphical. And I don't think Yamamoto "decided" to attack the USA, he just planned a way to attack them that would buy Japan the most time. And for that it wasn't too bad. If they'd focused the oil reserves more and the CVs had been present, it would have been an even greater success. But once the USA emargo started, Japan was boned whatever they did.

@kaltaron1284 2 года назад

I remember it as him saying that he could guarantee victory for half a year if they struck first and dealt a heavy blow. That was also an estimate of how long Japan could keep up most of the war effort and industry without oil imports. What baffles me a lot is that Japan (neither IJA nor IJN) really thought about supply lines. The IJA was often of the oppinion thaty soldiers could live off the land and worrying about supply lines would slow them down. Worked for the early campaigns quite well but in some of the jungles or islands... not so great. the IJN never had enough convoys or convoy protection so once the USN started uboat raiding... bye bye supplies from conquered territories.

@piggyback8367 2 года назад

@jim yamamoto didnt want to attack US, he knows japan cant win against US for a long war.. his higher command wants it.. he just appointed as the general that leads the attack.. well this appointment costs his life just 2 years after the attack tho..

@piggyback8367 2 года назад

@@kaltaron1284 you know IJN never really care about IJA's supplies because of the IJN IJA Rivalry right? another thing that makes japan will lose to USA hahaha

@jlvfr 2 года назад

Another excelent video! Just a head's up: the Portuguese flag you use for Macau is the old one from the monarchy (notice the crown on top...). We had been a republic since 1910...

@badluck5647 2 года назад

I assume there are over a 1000 dislikes due to this grave error. Thanks to RU-vid, we will now never know.

@rinoamenna 2 года назад

@@badluck5647 did they remove us being able to see dislikes lol feel like i saw them just a few days ago

@jlvfr 2 года назад

@@badluck5647 indeed. I am tempted to call the manager :D

@jlvfr 2 года назад

@@rinoamenna yeah... I guess some people whined about being offended with someone not liking what they post. So now actual authors can't properly judge the aceptance of their work.

@jlvfr 2 года назад

@@lucaskalebef não. não foi.

@nyantakyibannor9328 2 года назад

I'm sure you guys started the buildup to this series at this time so you could tell us about Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour on its 80th anniversary :-). I have thoroughly enjoyed this series and will continue to do so; kudos and keep it up.

@stoneruler 2 года назад

This is the first time i've seen a video on the pacific war describe the delicate complicated relations between the nationalist and communist factions in China. Well done!

@Mr2Reviews 2 года назад

CCP did f*ck all to stop the Japanese.

@neloverg3774 2 года назад

@@Mr2Reviews they had the most to gain. Japan fucked the nationalists, and actually fucked the allied powers by destroying the nationalists. They also fucked themselves in the long run what with a giant pieced together china now exerting it's influence and on bad terms with Japan who committed atrocities during their invasion

@ProtomanButCallMeBlues 2 года назад

@@Mr2Reviews they're responsible for the Japanese butchering civilians because their guerilla tactics. They did worse than nothing.

@silviaroasttm5847 2 года назад

@@Mr2Reviews CCP kept infiltrating the nationalist government to spread communism and stabbing NRA in the back while ROC were fighting Japanese.

@NightPhoenix.Y 2 года назад

@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues The nationalists hiding among civilians is what caused these butchering, the soldiers left by Chang hid themselves among Nanking causing the japanese to kill civilians to get to the soldiers, if they had made a last stand they've at least would've seemed honourable.

@florinivan6907 2 года назад

The funniest thing about the oil is that Japan had oil. Manchuria is home to the Daqing oil field. But in 1940 no one yet had any idea it existed. Had the japanese discovered it circa 1933 they would have had no reason to start a war 8 years later. They were sitting on a goldmine all this time.🤣

@leeo268 2 года назад

Those oil fields are so huge that China is still milking those today.

@christianvalencia4489 2 года назад

What if Pacific War 🤣

@thelionsaber5231 2 года назад

@@ballsligma108 As a Chinese I can guarantee its true haha.Japanese began to search for oils since they consolidated their military and economic presence in Manchuria after the first sino-Japanese war, but they took years and found nothing.A fun point is that western colonizers also tried before Japanese and reached the conclusion that China is lack of oil. Finally after the establishment of PRC, people found super huge oil fields in Heilongjiang Province(Manchuria) / Shandong Province (also in the sphere of influence of Japan Empire)which made China become one of the top oil sellers in the world.

@piggyback8367 2 года назад

@@muhammadfarhun1197 well the northern expansion plan aimed for siberian oil. they never really though that Manchuria have that big chunks of oil. because they've searched and never find it lol

@firecracker739 2 года назад

Note for Phibunsongkram’s name. “PH” when used in most English spelling (Romanized?) of Thai names usually pronounced /pʰ/. The same goes for “TH” as Thai language does not has /θ/ and /ð/ so it is usually pronounced /tʰ/. I noticed a while ago that it would make people confuse or pronounce them wrong, which it did, but maybe they wanted to emphasize the /ʰ/ sound because P and T pronounced differently from those above.

@planetarysolidarity 2 года назад

Wait. Do these people actually care about pronunciation?

@Armorchin 2 года назад

I just realized that his name literally means "Great War" in Thai, Damn.

@firecracker739 2 года назад

@@Armorchin Also his first name is Plaek, literally means “weird” or “strange”. Phibunsongkram is his given last name. His actual last name before that was Khittasangkha (ขีตตะสังคะ). Most Thais know him as ป. or P. (Por) from his initial.

@sisophon1982 2 года назад

Us cambodian call him Vibolsongkream for some reason

@firecracker739 2 года назад

@@sisophon1982 If you means like /w/ I think it’s because they’re Pali/Sanskrit which Thai and Cambodia loan a lot of words from. /w/ and /pʰ/ are kinda interchangeable if I understand correctly. For example Suvarnabhumi and Suphanburi, both use “Suphan/Suvarn”.

@helloworld0609 2 года назад

At the time, Japan could invade Soviet's Siberia for oil, but they did not because of their earlier defeat By Zhukov in the Battles of Khalkhin Gol (also an episode in this channel). If they had invaded Siberia in any case, the world history would be quite different as the Soviet would fight two wars at the same time. The Soviet spy Richard Sorge stationed in Japan got the information that Japan would invade south instead of into Siberia, and transmitted it to Stalin. Stalin then relocated large Soviet force from fast east to the front line with Nazi Germany, which saved his country. A lot of coincidences in the ww2.

@thecoldhardtruth2986 2 года назад

@@yassinhafez1337 Agreed, Khalkhin Gol would not matter at all if the Chinese didn't fight as hard as they did, and thus prolonging the war for far longer than the Japanese could ever anticipate, for they were well prepared for war, but not one of attrition. Imagine if the Chinese fell before Germany started their Blitzkrieg invasion of Poland, we'd all be speaking German, Italian, or Japanese today. Most people focus too much on the contributions of the USA, or the USSR, and not enough on what the Chinese did, I'd say they did the most by far. As mentioned constantly in this series of Pacific War videos, both the Japanese, and the rest of the world, underestimated the Chinese greatly. The Japanese lost the war because of it, and the Allied forces were saved because of it, or else they would have never had the required time to build up and prepare for the Pacific War as much as they did and most likely lose the Pacific to the initial surprise attacks by the IJN.

@AquaticSkipper 2 года назад

@@yassinhafez1337 nah

@bobbyrehman5197 2 года назад

Absolutely stunning information/knowledge we are gaining from you guys. THANKS! I hail from the North Eastern part of India, the state of Assam. It was so easy for everyone to watch and for you to narrate. I grew up hearing tales of these horrific tales of how my grandma's sister was raped by tens of invading Japanese soldiers, how my another sister of my grandma was kidnapped and taken to Burma without trace until this day. My dad was a toddler and the trasiting US soldiers would toss him butter tins and candies as he watched them bathing in the small local river. My dad and his brothers would run around wearing garrison caps aka wegde cap or service cap (given to them as gifts by the American soldiers). The reason why my dad and his 2 brothers were the only friends (in that small town) with the soldiers was because they all spoke English well just like my grandpa. So there you go, English IS INDEED the global or universal laguage haha The farmers and loggers from our village farm told me that there are heavy army artilerry and tanks rusting and rotting beyond the mountain range which surrounds our farmlands....the hardwares they say belong to China and Japan both..... I attemped to go but there are tigers and leopard and Asiatic lions so I was told a "city-boy" like me wouldn't make it alive so I stayed. Now I am 50, maybe when the Covid situations eases, I will attemt to take some drone shots of those places FPV would be cool huh! CHEERS Kings and Generals!!

@lycaonpictus9662 2 года назад

Sorry to hear about all the suffering your aunts had to endure. It's a horrific story, but thank you for sharing your families' experiences & keeping their memory alive.

@thalmoragent9344 2 года назад

Wow, very sorry for what your grandparents family had to endure, hope nothing like this happens anytime soon

@bobbyrehman5197 2 года назад

@@thalmoragent9344 Thank you sir yes indeed war always brings you pain and sufferings.... Only the mentally unstable would celebrate a war..... God bless you all PEACE & LOVE ALWAYS

@thalmoragent9344 2 года назад

@@bobbyrehman5197 Same to you, God Bless 👍🏾

@HistoryOfRevolutions 2 года назад

"A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm" - Yamamoto Tsunetomo (山本常朝)

@Chadmeleon 2 года назад

Famous last words.

@robertfaler1947 2 года назад

All of the Persian warriors may have been worthless but they still ended up winning the battle of Thermopylae.

@sonofdust66 2 года назад

"Fxxk your ancestors, Yamamoto!" - Yunfei Chu(楚雲飛)

@juanbustamante8427 2 года назад

You guys are literraly making my childhood dreams true. The Perfect way to explain such an interesting topic, I absolutely will be here with you guys for the next 4-5 years. Mark my words people.

@atakinpowa 2 года назад

remind me in 5 years lol

@cortobrown7919 2 года назад

Finally we have all the pieces. Nothing can stop this now. 😔

@seventh-hydra 2 года назад

For the people who, for some reason, STILL don't know why Imperial Japan attacked the US while still fighting in China... *TL;DR* They had no oil. So they either had to surrender in China, or get oil by going to war with the US. They literally could not continue operations in China. Their only options were to either abandon the war entirely, or to take the Dutch East Indies for the oil they needed. An attack on the Dutch East Indies came with a large risk of the US getting involved. And if the US did get involved, they'd have been absolutely smashed, due to the IJA and IJN being spread thin. Especially with the Philippines allowing the US to rapidly deploy anywhere they wanted in the SEA theater. Taking on the US immediately was their best chance. Defeat in China wasn't an option. The US would have likely attacked them if they made a move on the DEI. They couldn't "wait and see" because if the US *did* counter-attack, they'd have gotten obliterated. Even if the US didn't immediately step in after invading the DEI (unlikely), they would have eventually gone to war regardless. And with a consolidated US Naval force based out of the heart of their territory, that would have been... Bad. Instead, they could get their oil, destroy the US Pacific Fleet, and delay the US long enough to win in China. Consolidate their position, fortify the hell out of the Pacific, hope for an eventual cease-fire. Obviously that didn't happen but hindsight is 20/20. It's still honestly the best move they could have made, I don't see any other potential strategy that's better.

@Joker-yw9hl 2 года назад

@@Haijwsyz51846 get oil in the DEI but strike America pre-emptively to destroy the US Pacific fleet. This buys time to secure their position in Manchuria. Such a risky strategy though.

@seventh-hydra 2 года назад

@@Haijwsyz51846 The US was coordinating it's forces with the Dutch and working closely with their military. FDR was also eager to get involved in the Pacific, he'd been trying to get Congress to go to war for a while. One more invasion could have been the tipping point, like Poland in Europe. It wasn't a 100% sure-fire thing, but it was a very likely outcome. Attacking Pearl Harbor didn't get them oil. Taking the East Indies did. But attacking Pearl Harbor meant they could stop the US Fleet from coming in from behind and wrecking them in a counter-attack, once they invaded the East Indies. The general idea was "They're already getting ready to attack us, so we'll stop them first. Hopefully finish off China, and then consolidate before they can rebuild their fleet." edit: So no one gets the wrong idea, not saying "Japan was in the right" by *any* means. Just putting their frame of mind at the time into context. Otherwise it doesn't make any sense.

@charlie8344 2 года назад

@@Haijwsyz51846 US could easily cut off the Japanese from DEI so they had to make a choice

@imgvillasrc1608 2 года назад

Another alternative Japan could have taken was an earlier Operation Ichi-Go. I had this idea when I first read how much destruction the IJA did to the Kuomintang even by 1944. Japan did have French Indochina by 1940 when they bullied the Vichy French into accepting occupation so a 1941 Ichi-Go doesn't seem like a terribly bad idea considering that it would have the same objectives, except having anything to do with Burma this time.

@lycaonpictus9662 2 года назад

They could have ended the war in China. That would have been an embarrassing end to that imperialistic venture, but so what? Japan had no right to conquest in China and the war was from the very beginning an unjust one. Moreover, by expanding the war via the Strike South strategy Japan would ultimately suffer many more losses than it did in all the previous years of war in China, see it's cities reduced to rubble, and experience the even greater humiliation of unconditional surrender and foreign military occupation. Japan had plenty of choices and it chose very poorly. Pride goeth before a fall.

@faceofsarcasm4947 2 года назад

This is great! In American history classes we're taught that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor so they can get resources in the Pacific and that's about it. It's framed almost as if America forced their hand, neglecting to mention what Japan was up to prior to December 7th. This is so much more insightful. Well done.

@EmptyMan000 2 года назад

Indeed. It wasn't randomized act of unwarranted violence. It was a buildup of events that led to a tragedy. Figures Americans would leave that part out.

@lucks4fools978 2 года назад

@@EmptyMan000 the victors write the history books.

@user-hn4qr8ty6f 2 года назад

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, residents and military personnel were unaware that the attack would take place, but President Roosevelt and some politicians knew it because they had broken the code.

@winters1942 2 года назад

@@user-hn4qr8ty6f I heard about a story where a German double agent working for the British had a note saying that the Japanese where going to attack Pearl, but when he went to Hoover, head of the FBI, Hoover thought that he was just a German spy, not a double agent, and was trying to plant false info.

@lucks4fools978 2 года назад

@@user-hn4qr8ty6f if that is true, then that is a crime. Then again, FDR needed a valid reason to get the US involved in the war. As if the lend lease program isn’t an act of war in it of itself.

@MrAhnassi 2 года назад

Will you make a separate video about the evolution of the IJN from the Meji period to the end of WW2 (Ship development, tactics, development of a carrier force, Long Lance topredos etc)?

@devereuxbirdzell 2 года назад

Some of the best production value on RU-vid. Just pure excellence K&G, as always. I nerd out every time a new video drops. Thank you!

@dfw3288 2 года назад

Once again, blown away by the quality! Thank you, K&G.

@collintrytsman3353 2 года назад

always look forward to this each week, great stuff

@kaneknight4606 2 года назад

One of my favorite series you guys have made. Really great stuff

@jkasiron2275 2 года назад

Your maps have become beautiful! Thanks, these prelude videos provide a lot of necessary context. Looking forward to the next one!

@StarWarrior91 2 года назад

Can’t wait for the next episode! This has been such a fascinating series so far

@KHK001 2 года назад

Amazing video! as always

@jerrycramer4132 2 года назад

Another banger of an episode! Keep up the superb work

@lishiping84 2 года назад

Oh, it's 80 years. No wonder. I almost forgot. Worth mentioning that the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army are also under the banner of the National Revolutionary Army. And this channel neither overestimated nor underestimated the contribution of CCP in the 2nd Sino-Japanese war. Really great work. Also, my grandfather passed away this May at age of 101. He was a member of the New Fourth army. He was pretty proud of what he did during that time. He was not a frontline fighter but more like an intelligence worker. Later he became a military intelligence officer in PLA (not a field agent, Thanks to him I got terrible eyesight lol). After I become overseas and received stories from the other side. I decide not to dig too much about the truth about the notorious struggle between New Fourth Army and the Nationalism army in that area anymore. Because neither CCP nor KMT would like to expose their bad side and both of them like to play innocent.

@aznhomig 2 года назад

It seems like the KMT and the CCP were fighting a war within a war once the Second United Front broke down. Part of me thinks even if aliens invade the earth, the common trope is that the world immediately unites against the common enemy - the outside invader. But part of me thinks that won't be the case that even in the midst of an alien invasion that humans will still try to back stab each other Game of Thrones style.

@user-bk9tl3pt5c 2 года назад

Respect to your grandfather. To be honest, it was KMT who shoot on CCP's back firstly every fucking time

@piggyback8367 2 года назад

@@user-bk9tl3pt5c well.. that is how an enemy works haha.. KMT and CCP never really want to cooperate with each other.. only the "talks" ..

@lishiping84 2 года назад

@@aznhomig Yep, that always happens. And China during 1911 (The end of the Qing Dynasty)-1941(the start of the pacific war) was a great showcase for this kind of scenario. All kinds of different factions trying to gain more control in China by relying on different foreign powers.

@lishiping84 2 года назад

@@user-bk9tl3pt5c In most of the time, history is grey instead of black or white, only the winner gets the chance to define the color.

@4sakenreaper42 2 года назад

Another great video in a great series. Always makes my Tuesday breakfast that much better👍

@loupiscanis9449 2 года назад

Thank you , K&G

@ceridangitp 2 года назад

Another great video.

@DragoshBarbu 2 года назад

Excellent work on the prelude episodes for the War in the Pacific. The graphics are amazing and the amount of information makes one look at the episodes more than twice. Keep up the good work, it is an immense addiction for History buffs!

@josephdee4649 2 года назад

Love how u also cover the Sino Japanese war while talking about everything else at the same time~ As a Asian, I heard so many stories of our elderly ppl going through this suffering time of the Asian holocaust....but it's somehow pretty underrated in the media.

@progressivessuck7995 2 года назад

Terrific. Thank you

@suprhomre 2 года назад

Absolutely brilliant documentary.

@lethalcgreen8048 2 года назад

Y'all been pumping out content thankyou

@thomasrinschler6783 2 года назад

Like many others here, I'm really impressed with all the coverage you're giving to the conflicts on the mainland. It's not often you see detail on the Sino-Japanese War or the fighting in Southeast Asia!

@Demostravius 2 года назад

I'm hoping they cover Burma, my Great-Grandfather served in the 'Forgotten Army' and it's named as such for a reason.

@robbabcock_ 2 года назад

Awesome video!

@prakashghumaliya3960 2 года назад

Thank you for video sir

@brianschwarz 2 года назад

Great series of videos!

@kennyhagan5781 2 года назад

Impeccable timing. Watching this on December 5th.

@vinaykarnam 2 года назад

This is the best prelude video!!!

@tokysobukanla 2 года назад

Great video as usual. Keep up the good work!

@prvdntus 2 года назад

I love how you timed this prelude series to finalize now and to begin the series on December 7th

@NickTheHip 2 года назад

Great series guys!

@sof5858 2 года назад

Loving the Pacific Series 👌🏻

@leocasteel 2 года назад

This was awesome!

@sirzedi 2 года назад

Good job bro..loving every second of the video..😄

@Sven6345789 2 года назад

Very well done. If you keep up this kind of quality, this series might well become THE SERIES about the pacific war.

@banerjeesiddharth05 2 года назад

Mind blowing video

@cai11tube 2 года назад

Still waiting for this week's pacific war video... That's how much I love this channel

@mikestafford6900 2 года назад

I've been loving this series! So cool to find out about the build-up to war on that side of the world

@adrianthegreat8190 2 года назад

ive been loving this series

@luislugo1289 2 года назад

Muchas gracias por tan extraordinaria serie!

@MayuriK_it 2 года назад

I love this serie, I can't wait for the next episode!

@Jcknight7996 2 года назад

Love these videos

@Aginor88 Год назад

Interesting series.

@FairwayJack 2 года назад

good stuff

@ounkhamHybrid 2 года назад

cant wait for the next chapter, you did very good interpretation and animation after saw your vdo is better understanding like read plenty of pacific war history books

@-JA- 2 года назад

Thank you.

@Ryzexus 2 года назад

One of the best history channel

@nigel7690 2 года назад

I love all your content ❤

@anjujason9415 2 года назад

My grandparents lived through the Japanese occupation in the Marshall Islands, so this series hits home for me. Thank you for making these videos and I can’t wait to see how this turns out!

@gumbogambit 2 года назад

Excited for 12/7!!!

@brokenbridge6316 2 года назад

This video was excellent. And I need to check out that show on Magellan TV. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

@Ilimar1 Год назад

This series is so good and can't wait for the weekly additions. I've restarted it to see if I missed anything.

@overlordover114 2 года назад

Japan: -not finished war with China, -war against European colonial powers, yes its time to start war against USA Banzai!

@seventh-hydra 2 года назад

Literally couldn't continue the war against China or European colonial powers without the resources from the Dutch East Indies; which likely would have resulted in US intervention. It was actually a smart move from them, they just botched it terribly.

@LarryWater 2 года назад

I just need oil.

@carnifex2005 2 года назад

@@seventh-hydra The smart move was to not start war at all. Completely idiotic to depend so much on US trade and then start actions that would surely bring about war with them.

@seventh-hydra 2 года назад

@@carnifex2005 Yeah, totally agreed. Invading China was doomed to fail because of that reason exactly. I just meant, for the position they were in at that point of the war, it was 'logical' for their leadership to attack the US. It wasn't some random act of violence because they didn't like the US, but a strategic necessity, because resources.

@lycaonpictus9662 2 года назад

@@carnifex2005 ...or once having started a foolish war, finding a way to get out of it when it was clear they were never going to completely conquer China & that continued escalation was only going to lead to war with Britain and the United States. Sometimes you have to know when to fold a losing hand. Japan didn't. There was nothing smart about any of it.

@abdelra7man87 2 года назад

I very much like this series

@javo5270 2 года назад

Perfect timing

@davidb3155 2 года назад

Wow, what an awesome release with December 7 just around the corner.

@colingullberg 2 года назад

Great video as always. One correction: at 16:17 the subtitles say 'foreign imports' while the narration says 'foreign exports'.

@impostor101 2 года назад

Nice nice i want more

@spssy 2 года назад

The English and Japanese words in 5:20 are mismatched, "焼き尽くし" means "burns all", "奪い尽くす" means loot all

@lyhthegreat 2 года назад

yeah they were swapped...even someone who can only read chinese and not japanese can tell that it looks wrong.

@jessealexander9074 2 года назад

Best history channel around

@brahmsabraham4107 2 года назад

A non-boring documentation for WW2, getting interesting as it goes.

@Ilostmycactus 2 года назад

So many fronts. The scale is mind boggling.

@redsamurai192 2 года назад

Yet another interesting video. Is there a chance that you might be covering Vietnam War in the future? I feel that it's another topic worth exploring, from the time the French colonists leave Vietnam and the following years leading to Vietnam War.

@Admiral_Jezza 2 года назад

What music do you use in your videos? Its great

@approximatelybalut3653 2 года назад

@5:14 there is a mix-up in the English translation. "LOOT ALL" and "BURN ALL" should be interchanged.

@aaronmarks9366 2 года назад

Just these 7 prelude videos are better than everything that aired on the so-called History Channel in the last 20 years, maybe ever. Well done, K&G.

@manharkhatri3921 2 года назад

Love history

@luissarmento1179 2 года назад

Great series ! Just wanted to nerd out to point out that the Portuguese flag over macau is the monarchical flag, while Portugal had become a republic in 1910. Keep up the great work !

@RigbyWilde 2 года назад

10:35 me playing hoi4 calmly, when all in the sudden..... THIS IS TALK ON NATIONAL SECURITY

@NightmareRBLX 2 года назад

So 5 days left 😍

@markroyhetgarcia5748 2 года назад

Been waiting all day here, but now its night here, worth it HAHAHAHAHA

@tonythesopranos5310 Год назад

There's a huge mistake at 5:22. 殺し尽くし - kill all (this is correct) 焼き尽くし - burn all (this is incorrect, you're written loot all underneath) 奪い尽くし - this means loot all You've mixed up 奪い尽し and 焼き尽くし

@ostanesirp9297 2 года назад

Thanks a lot for your nice work and dedication to telling the truth and narrating the history almost as a neutral man. 👏

@moremileyplease4387 2 года назад

I never hear about the run-up to WWII. Thanks.

@johnspizziri1919 2 года назад

Great job! never knew how much trade we had with the Japanese Empire

@OzymandiasWasRight 2 года назад

Supernova in the East brought me here. This video does an excellent job with visual aids, all of the information is right in front of you the entire time.

@finns935 2 года назад

i saw HOI4 Icons! Love your Videos man..

@zechuanzhou4183 2 года назад

Thanks for this great content! Just an advice: exchange the position of "loot all" with "burn all" to correctly correspond to their Japanese words.

@agakarimshah6416 2 года назад

Deserve 30 million subs💥♥️

@Urlocallordandsavior 2 года назад

Props for mentioning the underreported Thai involvement in WWII, though I would like to correct that it's more proper to refer to the Thai Prime Minister of the time as Plaek Phibunsongkram, with "Phibun" being a nickname and not the actual last name.