Thank you for watching the video, Now here to address mistakes here that I have already replied to, but it seems like people just comment those mistakes again and again. First, yes I know I messed up at Papua campgains and the Indonesian Ones, same with the Okinawa and Iwo Jima landings. So here I address them here, I can't do anything about it but only to address it. Second, the Philippines Campgain of 1944-1945 Is shown, it might be cause you can't see it clearly but I done it. Third, the Pacific island hopping can't be shown due to the map, it just doesn't show the islands, I would included army sizes and Lines that show pacific control over The Allies and the Japanese, but I can't find any data for it, it only shows data at the near end of the war in 1945 August, and the lines are too complex for me to do in a way that it doesn't overlap with the other shape layers that I do in Editing. Now I hope I answered most your questions for what hasn't been done. Thank you for watching once again. P.S. Note that if you are looking for the maps I use in my videos, for most of my videos I use Google Earth Studio and take a Snapshot, for this Video I used Google Earth Pro.
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Seeing a 5 to 1 ratio in the Chinese-Japenese war is insane, The Japenese forces were extremely powerful against the Chinese ones, in which that taught me alot.
China’s weapon at that time was far behind the world. When Japanese soldiers are using modern weapons, Chinese soldiers probably still using weapons like muskets etc
I think people forget china was literally having a civil war at the time And the Japanese soldiers were fascist monsters, and their brutality is fsvourable in war as seen with Germany
I never realized how little conquered territory Japan had lost at the time of its surrender, especially when compared to Germany, which was almost completely overrun by the time they finally gave up.
Japan made a massive mistake during its colonisation period. Instead of naturalising the citizens of the empire, they often mistreated the local populations (especially the Japanese army, which was more brutal than the Japanese navy). In doing so, barely any soldiers of the empire were not Japanese thanks to Japan's mistrust towards non-Japanese people. This created a massive problem by the end of the war since there were not many soldiers left to fight, even though hundreds of thousands of Koreans had applied for jobs in the military in the previous years. The Mongolian Empire, on the other hand, mostly recruited people from conquered lands, which was possible thanks to the Mongols'inclusiveness (Khan's tolerance towards religions, for example, is very well documented) and that's how it spread so far. Had Japan treated Korea and China the same way they treated Taiwan, the empire would have been a lot more stable. Had they recruited people from those lands as well, they would have been in an even better position. At that point, the allies wouldn't just have been fighting Japan bust all of East Asia. Germany could have never done the same thing because its expansion was a results of aggression from neighbouring countries and a severe superiority complex. Japan, on the other hand, could have chosen to unify the East for real. But, it sadly didn't. What's also important to note is that Japan is an island while Germany isn't. To defeat Germany, an invasion of Europe by the allies was obligatory. On the other hand, to defeat Japan, the allies needed to either force Japan to surrender by bombing them (which they did) or invade the homeland, which would have been a horrible idea given the Japanese's devotion towards their country. An invasion of China, Korea or the South-East would have given the allies no benefits
@@Ricky911_ WTF are you talking about, Japan conscripted heavily in Korea, first for labor and later for military. Also, Taiwanese participation in the IJA/IJN was hardly any better than Korean participation. Japanese holdings in China weren't a part of Japan, they were ruled as a series of puppet states. The issue is that Chinese troops had loyalty and reliability issues, but they were useful for internal security and that's how they were utilized. As for other puppet states, you're talking about states that's only existed for 2~3 years. State building has barely begun, let alone building a working military.
@@taoliu3949 Between 1938 and 1943, 800k Koreans applied for military applications but only a little over 17k were enlisted. You could have literally just done a Google search before saying that. The fact that they conscripted for labour isn't something I talked about because it's true. Japan was looking for cheap labour and there was no shortage of it by the end of the war. What they were lacking, was soldiers. Most of China was made up of puppet states but not all of China. Manchuria, for example, had been taken in 1931, 6 years before they invaded the rest of China yet they still hesitated to naturalise them into the empire. I suggest you read about Kishi Nobusuke, the Japanese PM between 1957 and 1960. He oversaw the industrialisation of Manchuria between 1936 and 1941, committing a lot of crime against humanity in the process. Japan could have easily had loyal soldiers from Manchuria as well as other parts of China if they had treated the people there well. Massacring 300k people at Nanjing certainly didn't help with their image
@@Ricky911_ That's how us British did it with our empire. We recruited locally but made sure the officers were mostly British for the "white" nations Canada, NZ, Australia and South Africa. They were "our sort". The non-white nations were not. The British army itself was very small. In the 1930's it barely existed at all. Most defence spending in those days went on the Royal Navy and airforce. It was only the threat of war with Germany in the late 1930's that forced the government to increase defence spending.
I'm shocked that people ignore it, Europeans treat it like a sideshow, it was extremely important and without USA intervention those japs would have never been dislodged.
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Food for thought. Most of the major battles fought by the US in the pacific on the ground were fought on bits of rock that can barely be seen on a map of the region. These battles at the same time would be no less ferocious or critical than those elsewhere even if the amount of land mass ultimately taken was tiny.
Island hopping maximized the value of the naval advantage the US had developed (the same logic by which Japan had taken the islands in the first place, when the advantage was theirs).
Yeah. The Japanese fought like rabid dogs for every conquered land they gained. It would be admirable if the government and army (For Japan ww2 is one and the same) weren’t ferocious monsters
@@dudermcdudeface3674Not only that, but islands like Pelileu and Iwo Jima were critical as their capture meant US bombers were finally in range of the Japanese mainland.
Only Chinese can undersand how hard the situiation was in 1931 to 1945 for China. We did not give up. Thanks for the help from USA. Salute to the 20 million Chinese who lost their life in WWII. ❤
@@ShagolduvdndDid you see the map at the end? By 1945 the Chinese were still losing land and the Japanese isolated half the country. The only reason China got out alive was Japan surrendering to the Allies.
@@ShagolduvdndAmericans were volunteering in China to fight the Japanese including roles such as pilots. America already knew what was next given the current times of fascist Europe rising to extreme levels and Japan already tooled up for conquest. Do more history research America helped China a lot to survive.
I'm glad you made the chinese front in such good detail, it's a very overlooked part of the war. Hell, I was half-expecting you to just start in 1941, but I was pleasantly surprised.
@@chickenmadness1732 to be fair even if the war in China was pretty much in a stalemate, Japan was progressing dangerously in the Pacific. The US was critical in the IIWW when supplying the "free" world with their superior and untouched industrial complex and depriving the axis of those same goods. And if the US did anything important (militarily) in the war was in the Pacific theater, were they effectively turned the tie. Even with that, only the Soviet intervention convinced the Japanese that they no longer could keep their empire and the days of a Major World Power were over. Why? Because the war of the Soviets was the same as the war of the Japanese, sacrificing as many men as necessary. Japan's strategy was to tire the Americans psychologically, because they were convinced that being a democracy, with the wounds of the civil war just closed and having next to no experience in big wars, that could be done regardless of Japanese casualties. And the Russians... Well, you see that Germany proved the world that they couldn't be tired and had to be exterminated, something Japan never could have done.
@@themelonman4303While having practically no supplies...oil...food... And being outnumbered. Quite literally Japanese willpower and late-war last ditch Arisaka rifles against the British empire and their Indian slaves+Chinese support
It was just a normal war. Definetly not a worldwar. During the polish invasion, way more countries were involved. Including the french and british colonies.
World war 2 started when the British and French empires declared war on Germany. A world war means that many countries or regions of most or all continents are at war.
"They got tanks, they got planes, and we got nothing. What are we going to do?" "The answer is obvious. If you don't want to be slaves, let us build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood!"
My grandad fought for the US in this theater, he was in Saipan didn’t really talk about it much at all he came back to a country that still didn’t treat his people well either as a second generation immigrant from the Caribbean , but he used his GI bill to go to university I’m so proud of him and may he rest in peace.
Here before this explodes, I’ve always wanted to see one of these army sizes every day pacific theater and now we finally have one. Awesome video dude!
I actually wanted to see the sea battles, as it's the only reason Japan lost. The land forces had of course more soldiers involved but were comparatively less significant.
This video does a good job at displaying the hopelessness of the japanese situation. by 1938 the japanese army was already in a stalemate fighting a force numbering twice their manpower. It's pretty clear that by this point, japan was already fighting its very own soviet union failure we see with the nazis. people often wonder what drove the japanese to attack the u.s and other european powers in the region, seeing it as a mistake on their part. The reality is that japan was fighting its last ditch efforts by 1941. They were at this point of the war already outnumbered 4-1 in manpower. Adding to that, the chinese were being provided with weapons and resources by the allied nations, meanwhile they were already running low on the resources they needed to drive their way through china. It was clear to the japanese that if this continued there was no hope they could possibly outlast the chinese who continued to grow by the day. This is the reason why the japanese decided to attack the u.s and allies, so that they could cut off all their supplies to the chinese mainland and acquire the resources from their colonies in the pacific to fuel their war. The hope was that they would be able to hold off the allies long enough in the pacific to finalize their efforts in the chinese mainland. We can see that by 1944 the plan had worked somewhat and some progress in their invasion had been made, but by then it was too little too late and the japanese were already losing to american forces in the pacific.
Thats because this was an unjust war to steal another country's territory and resources. As a result, the Japanese government wasnt able to call a full mobilization to conscript all male citizens until they declare war to the allies in 1941. Same thing that went for Nazi Germany in ww2, Germany wasn't able to call a full mobilization until 1943 by minister Speer. Most people are not stupid, they understand to fight as a soldier meaning possibly dying in battle. They simply refuse if there is not a good reason.
Do not be so critical, the United States at that time fought on the side of Japan, supplied resources, and military specialists and intelligence were at the front in China, at the headquarters of Japan. Have you heard of Detachment 731? In those years, they often lectured in the United States as invited experts. It was the gap in US aid to Japan that forced Japan to attack and it was in 41. Let me remind you that the Japanese-Chinese war began at 37. 4 years difference.
@@astronova3508 not openly. I said something else. They supplied resources, technologies and military specialists there, as well as provided intelligence. The contact was very tight. But the main thing I wanted to say is that in 1938 Japan had no problems, on the contrary, they were going to success, the problems began in 1941, just at that time the United States turned away from them, and the US military specialists crossed the front line and began to work already for China , moreover, funny, from the side of Japan they took out maps with the location of troops and the directions of the planned strikes. And so that you have no doubts about how tight the contact between the USA and Japan was, take an interest in the fate of the 731 detachment of Japan, do you know what kind of detachment it is? What is he famous for and what awaited them if they were defeated in the war? So, with the already expected defeat of Japan and the threat of their capture by the Russians and the Chinese and the imminent execution for crimes, the entire elite was evacuated to the USA, where they received positions as professors and group leaders at US universities and laboratories. Look who interceded for group leader Shiro Ishii, US generals and admirals, and his non-prosecution was guaranteed on behalf of the country.
The most underrated and over looked aspect of the war in the Pacific is the near total destruction of Japanese shipping. By the wars end, they were not really even able to evacuate troops from many Islands due to lack of merchant shipping and transports due to allied (mostly American) submarine wolfpacks and allied decryption tactics.
@Taczy2023 You refer to American submarines destroying Japanese shipping as if it were a military achievement for the United States. Then, do you know "Tragedy of Tsushima Maru"? During the war, Japan mobilized adults, while children were evacuated to regions where they were less likely to be damaged by air raids, as they were the future leaders of Japan. The Tsushima Maru was carrying 1,700 people, including children, women, and the elderly, and headed for the evacuation destination. However, it was attacked and sunk by the American submarine USS Bowfin, killing most of its passengers. Those of you who were victorious in the war may not know this, but in Japan it is still talked about as a tragedy during the war. I think we need to pay more attention to the tragedies caused by wars, not just the victories and defeats of wars.
@@亜矢子四栁 In Japan do they also talk about Imperial soldiers putting babies on spears, or the rape of Nanking, the brutal slavery and starvation of POWs, sexual slavery of woman in the occupied areas, beheading POWs, human experimentation, mass killings, Manila massacre when Japanese soldiers killed 100,000 Philippine civilians, cannibalism of allied soldiers, attacking hospital ships? What about those things. They showed no mercy to the civilians of occupied nations nor the allied POWs. Agreed though, war is a breeding ground of tragedies.
manpower was the only thing really going for china, they lacked everything else, chinese were operating on a constant shortage of guns and artillery, training in most units was poor at best, plus there were internal politics with chiang trying to keep the warlords united as well as dealings with the communists
@@justit1074yes, the Chinese were badly equipped, badly trained, and has been embroiled in civil war and industrialization was kinda difficult for the country
The Japanese weren't totally out of the war like most believe. They were on their last legs, but it wasn't going down without fighting, the plan from day one was to. The Japanese home islands still received 8 million tons of supplies in 1945 to put into perspective that's what the USA used to fight on the western front from North Africa to Europe. The Japanese military was still massive 6 million strong with over 1million allies/ pupets when it surrendered, it still posesed 20,000 to 50,000 aircraft the majority were held back for defence operations of the home islands, majority were to be used for kamikaze attacks if the USA landed or attempted to land on Japan. They also called up over 31million men woman and children as young as 8 armed with just bamboo spears for mass kamikaze attacks and construction why waiting for the invasion. They also had thousands of speedboat for again kamikaze attacks and divers, it would have been unlike anything we had seen in ww2 had the invasion gone ahead.
@@brianlong2334 On the other hand, they were doomed, because the Soviets defeated all the ground forces on the mainland, taking only more than 600 thousand soldiers (consider no reinforcements), and captured the northern islands with landing forces. Opening your way already in the heart of Japan. The Japanese were squeezed on the islands, forcing them to defend themselves from all sides, dispersing their forces against much stronger enemies, it is impossible to create a strong defense everywhere. OK. From the north, the threat of landing on Hokaido from the USSR, from the south, the landing of the allies on Kyushu. But these are already the sacred islands of Japan itself, where both the population and industry are concentrated. A hit on them immediately removes all opportunities for further resistance, no matter what spirit you have.
The number of people in the comments who think the campaigns against Japan were all American is mind numbing. On the mainland the majority of fighting was done by the millions of Chinese and hundreds of thousands of British and Indian troops, and at sea the British navy made up about 25% of the American naval forces, with heavy input from ANZAC forces in PNG. Americans DID make up the majority of the island hopping forces and were the decisive force in the Pacific campaign, but they were far from alone.
@@mitjed Japan really was a mid tier power in WW2. The British defenses were dilapidated, under supplied and understaffed as Britain focused on Germany. The United States entered the war with a tiny standing military and sent 90% of the war effort toward the "Germany first" policy. The only country that brought their full force to fight Japan was China. And ofc, China was coming off a century of stagnation, revolution, fragmentation and civil war.
@@doctorferdinand1003 That's probably what the Colonists (Dutch, US, British empire and France) where thinking lol mid tier power. Japan was just a mid tier power. When in reality, Japan pre WW2 has one of the strongest army and navy in the world. Disciplined and fearless. Their army are able to defeat a more numerical armies of the west and China, fighting at the same time in a different lands. Nobody in history has ever wage war at the same time in East Asia, Aleutian Islands, South East Asia and Pacific Islands before.
Japan also crushed the Russian navy in 1905, completely sunk their Baltic fleet during the first modern navy battles, while they were barely a burgeoning power
@@user-rj4gu5oh3k That can be said for basically any point in Russian history, but it was a pretty big embarrassment at the time, Japan was viewed as irrelevant, backwards, incapable, not fit to stand with the great powers. Japan didn't ask Russia to sail across the world to get their ass kicked, to be fair.
@@Big_Caesar1 yep the problem too at the time was the Russian tsars did not give a fuck about anything including infrastructure. Which would mean they could simply not transport their troops fast enough to the front causing them to be embarrassed by the Japanese.
Japan is, to my knowledge, the only nation to conquer all of Southeast Asia. There will probably never be another power to do so given the enormous difficulties involved. The horrible atrocities committed aside, it was an unbelievable military accomplishment.
Considering at one point the Chinese had 0 tanks and at another half the army was armed with swords because of lack of guns they did alright, imagine if it was a unified country with proper military at the time
Although China soon lost the northeast and North China, but because it was their own country, so their army stubbornly resistance, always stalemate with Japan. In contrast, the areas of Southeast Asia that were occupied by the British, the French, etc., were lost so quickly that they seemed to have no resistance at all. If the Japanese had initially shifted their focus of attack from North China to Southeast Asia with more troops, they would have been in a better position to not lose so much in resources and manpower in China.
That is absolutely untrue. Japan never wanted to expand the war, they did not have the capability to do so. Had Shanghai not happened, Japan could have just steamrolled China in the Central Plains. What happened was Chiang expanded the war by attacking the Japanese garrisons in Shanghai, which ended up with Japan sending hundreds of thousands of troops pushing along the Yangtze River Valley. This meant Japan could not utilize their mech advantage and instead of what would have been a more decisive conflict, it turned into a stalemate and war of attrition. After that, everything Japan did was an attempt to cut China off from outside resources, hence capturing of ports, and then French Indochina (Kunming Railroad ran to Hanoi). This greatly alarmed the Western Powers, especially the US who proceeded to embargo Japan of important resources such as oil.
@@taoliu3949It's untrue. Since 1894 the first Sino Japanese war,Japan has made it's expanding plan that makes the whole east and sourtheast Asia it's own territory.Up to 1895,it annexed Taiwan(a province of Qing dynasty)and fought for the rule in the Northeast China with Russia.After the WWI,it took the rights German in Shandong Province,and prevented the unification of China led by KMT and CCP and had terrible conflict with Chinese Army.In 1931（6 years earlier than the Pacific War）,it invaded the Northeast China and definitely made Northeast China it's own territory.On the contrary,it was Chiang that didn't want to fight with Japanese even Japs wanted to destroy China because of his own civil war plan in China with CCP.
@@taoliu3949 China might have lost the conventional war and fell quickly like France had Japan assembled a march larger army like they first have a total of 7 million troops all at once with 6 million soldiers in the army branch and 1 million troops in the other military branches then Japan can have 1 million troops to maintain order, a total of 5 million troops to attack China in WW2 with 4 million active troops and 1 million active reserves in order to replace any losses, then out of the 4 million active troops, Japan can use 3.5 million soldiers supported by massive amounts of tanks, aircraft, and other equipment to steamroll China in the central plains then use 500,000 troops for the battle of shanghai. Then the war might have ended much faster had Japan used this blitzkrieg tactic.
@@Kingcorwin69 Except that Japan never wanted to get involved in a full scale war in China to begin with. Tokyo had no interests in getting into a shooting war with China to begin with, but IJA officers on the ground would constantly cause issues and escalate the situation. The decision to send troops into Shanghai itself was divisive in Tokyo. Not to mention your own proposal is unrealistic. Japan even at the height of the war had no more than maybe 4 million troops in China, half of which were in Manchuria to deter any possible Soviet aggression. The remaining troops in China Proper suffered from logistics issues due to the poor Chinese infrastructure. In other words, Japan couldn't even properly supply what they had in China, but your proposal is to increase their numbers 4-fold. And that's without taking into consideration the threat that is USSR. Heck, the IJA at its largest was only 6 million.
@@taoliu3949 Actually had Japan have a total of 6.8 million troops and out of these 6.8 million troops, they can have 1 million troops in the air force and navy, and 5.8 million troops in the ground force, they can use 1 million ground troops to maintain order supported by an unknown number of Chinese collaborators in the occupied territories to fight any resistance, they can then use a total of 4.8 million ground troops to attack China, then of these 4.8 million ground troops, 1.3 million ground troops would serve as active reserves to reinforce the front and replace any losses, then have the remaining 3.5 million ground troops to be active in attacking China and of these 3.5 ground million active troops, they can use 2.8 ground million soldiers to attack from the North (Manchuria) and 700,000 ground troops to attack Shanghai, then they can quickly blitz China and conquer China within one year or right before the year 1939 which could occur before any trade embargos.
Wait, didn't Japan lose several islands in the pacific before surrendering? Sorry, but I think your map was a little inaccurate, friend... no offense or diminish your work!
I forgot to color Okinawa as blue during the Editing time, and some landings in the Indonesian Islands. But thank you for speaking out for this mistake.
@@pigeoninanutshell The Editing time? Do you mean that the surrender of Japan is the beginning of the American occupation of Japan? While other countries are nothing to you.
The front doesn't move in New Guinea, Philippines or Borneo late in the war. How many American and Australian troops were deployed that this video doesn't mention?
Having been a Marine, I’ve come to acknowledge the sheer brutality and criminal underappreciation of the Pacific campaign. It was personal and deadly, yet everyone glorifies the European campaign. Thank you for this video and may the souls of my big brothers rest easy in the presence of God.
What? It's commonly acknowledged the Pacific theatre was absolutely brutal, for the Americans even more so than in Europe. There is a reason they felt the need to drop two nukes on Japan just to force them to the negotiation table. I'm not sure who is supposed to be underappreciating it.
@@caspertrog1046 The Americans didn't suffer as much as the Europeans, please study your history before making a statement like that. How many casualties did the Americans have?
@@caspertrog1046 Japan was forced to the negotiation table by the Soviets defeating Kwantung Army what they barely show in the video. the vile terror act of dropping nuclear bombs on civil cities was just a display of power. it was done for another negotiations. the division of the world with USSR.
this does NOT show the island battles, which are crucial to the war effort. Would be cool if the battles are shown with arrows that change colors depending on territorial control ratio instead of just none. Speaking of the video, I'm astonished with the 5:1 ratio of the chinese v japanese armies. Sad to say that Kuomintang corruption led their demise.
That was my original idea but the islands are not visible on my map cause i got it off google earth, i would of included army sizes but i lacked information.
@@pigeoninanutshell yeah that was a problem too, there's a problem with the army sizes for each island battle. however arrows with different colors could do the job of mapping the islands
Kuomintang corruption =) The Kuomintang, the only one who really fought in China for China. Corruption is more likely among those who hid in Taiwan after the war. They fought the Kuomintang more than the Japanese.
A war between Asia's only industrial power and an agrarian nation would have been a continuing hellish ordeal for China without Western arms, and when Japan faced the Soviet Union, it was crushed by a Soviet tank cluster。
Yes, but on the Chinese mainland Japanese troops were bogged down and confronted with countless Chinese soldiers, and in the Pacific and Indonesia, Japanese soldiers were being killed off by disease and malnourishment
@@trentonking764 even if it does, it’s all about how accurate it is. I mean if you are calling it so easy why aren’t you doing it right now and earn yourself a living
@@supereero9 No? They literally cancelled an operation that would’ve taken half of Hokkaido because they didn’t have enough available landing craft and the availability of Japanese kamikaze and other stiff resistance they’d face
@@theemirofjaffa2266the Japanese armies in China by this point was largely disintegrating and exhausted, they were facing constant hassle in the rural parts of the country by guerrilla forces and supply shortages, but yeah justify crimes against humanity that’s fine
glad that China never surrendered , most of you never realize how disaster to the whole world if China surrendered and capitulated to Japan before 1943
It’s truly amazing how much Chinese territory the Japanese took. Although they were more advanced in weaponry, occupying a country with about 8 times your population is impressive.
@@chibble3591with naval and aerial and equipment superiority the difference is really large, even though, Chinese United front and the river incident is important for holding the Japanese, else if China is not United against Japan the same would happen as how the qing dynasty Manchuria worked out, Japanese were out of oil so they had no choice but to attack Allie’s to get oil in rest of asia
because Chinese don't have guns tanks and plants at that time. you will see what can Chinese do if they have guns in Korea war. by the way Chinese don't have tanks and plants in that war.
The USA cut of oil crippling the Japanese, knowing they would act aggressively so that the American population would be mobilised for war. The war in the Pacific was Americans doing, the Japanese went after the islands to become self sufficient, the war in China was also about stopping what the USA did to them in the first place kinda iconic.
@@brianlong2334 Don't know where you find the research to support your idea. Maybe you want to look further. That the US stopped the Japanese seeking oil for self sufficiency is not true. Look again. You have received incorrect information.
Even tho the Japanese Army sizes are smaller than the Chinese Army sizes, It shows how powerful they were in the beginning because they were still winning
@@_blank-_t's not surprising at all, look at how many men they mobilized, at those numbers, each Japanese soldier would have had to kill 20 Chinese each. The numbers were completely against Japan
China were a bunch of 1914 gunmen with no support vehicles Japan was modernized. You can see how moa go to popular with his “great leap forward” even if it didnt work
This map really doesn’t represent the reality of the situation, China didn’t have one unified army, it was in the midst of a civil war and extremely disorganised
Japan's rapid advance in Southeast Asia is militarily impressive. When Hitler heard the announcement about this achievement, he initially thought that the Japanese government was lying and that the announcement was exaggerated.
They needed to ship the supplies (most crucially fuel) from southeast Asia back to Japan. Going by sea was not the option since Philippines was captured and the Japanese navy was basically devastated (also the merchant shipping was lost to effective us submarines). By connecting a continuous land corridor from the tip of Malaysia to northern China, they can hope to ship supplies via there. Having the connection of north and south China was vital to that last hope. War was fought on supplies.
@asenvelkov-a.k.a.Mr.Shephard you are welcome. One thing I realised when it comes to war is that there was always a reason (geopolitical or geoeconomic) for grabbing a certain territory. And it was not out of pure fanaticism but real strategic reason. Like why China is obsessing with taking Taiwan (unsinkable aircraft carrier near south China Sea) or why Germany insisted on marching through Ardennes during battle of France. I know this when I play hearts of iron 4.
I also added that the whole pacific war was started simply because japan needed southeast Asia (most importantly the oil from Dutch east indies) to finish the war with China. Since Japan was still winning the massive land war with China, they had that hope till 1945.
One very unfair thing that always comes out when people talk about ww2 is how, in the West, the Chinese are represented as helpless lambs, who were being wrecked by Japan until America came to the rescue. Actually, the Chinese fought so bravely that they bogged down most of the Japanese army in a war of attrition for longer than ww2 lasted. Japan only took the European colonies in Southeast Asia and attacked the USA because the Chinese were turning the tide on them. Chinese war effort should receive much more recognition.
I wouldn't say they're portrayed as helpless, but most people I've ever seen mention the Pacific front just barely mention it as "where Japan was in the first couple years"
Nope, the most unfair thing is that ussr destroyed japan half million forces in almost 1 week, but nobody tells about it. Not nuclear weapon made japan accept the defeat, but ussr forces did.
@@flatl1ne I mean, nobody talks about it cuz it's a ridiculous, untrue claim. lol Russia did not 'destroy' half a million forces in a week. There's simply no such thing. But going by your talking points, I'm guessing you're Russian yourself? Slava Ukraini. Get fucked.
потому что это называется "американская пропаганда". Американцы сделали во второй мировой войне от силы 5% вклада, но превозносят это так, будто они круче всех и вообще это они "победили".
@flatl1ne There is this delusional idea that it was one singular reason the Japs must have surrendered instead of taking a more nuanced look at the subject. It was a combination of factors that led the capitulation, the Soviet invasion and atomic bombs are just 2 of them.
Most of WWII in Asia amounted to the world’s most powerful Iron Age civilization fighting Asia’s biggest Steal Age powers. Shanghai and Nanjing must have been a terrifying wake up call to the Chinese. Manpower alone could not stop Japan.
They landed in October 1944. Video doesn't show any of it. Neither the other important campaigns like Tarawa, Marshall islands, Mariannas, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Miserable failure.
@@MultiSr71blackbird The initial landings took place on very small portions of Philippines, ffs and took a little while before US could expand from it. Also calling it a 'miserable failure' cuz it didn't color in tiny little hardly-even-visible islands only shows how utterly miserable people like you are, trashing on somebody's hard work cuz it's not perfect while you haven't done shit. smh
its crazy to see how much the japanese still owned by the war's end. They really would have kept going if we didn't send two nukes. They owned pretty much all of asia.
8:02 The Ratio of the Allies to Japan is Insane Look at the Indian Front ratio of Allie troops to Japanese (9: 3.5) While look at the Chinese Front ratio of Ally to Japanese (5:1) The Japanese were clear outnumbered but still pushed through, the only front which they had the advantage was the New Guinea Front (1.9 to 0.7)
@@taoliu3949 he certainly could have shown some representation of the greater New Guinea campaign/landings and the Philippines. Solomons were just barely visible too - maybe he can do an island hopping video.
The Chinese soldiers were not trained, short of weapon and ammunition, and lack of air superiority. It's amazing that they kept fighting until US joined in.
5.5 million? Do you think an agricultural country with an annual steel production of 100,000 tons can equip an army of 5.5 million? Even Nazi Germany could only maintain 4 million soldiers on the front line
It's even more amazing when chinese soldiers had weapon, supplies and good training. My grandfather joined Chinese Expeditionary Force in 1943 and were unstoppable in Burma
The Japanese control Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Borneo, Formosa, Korea, Thailand and Burma in 1945, in addition to Manchukuo and Meijiang (Manchuria and Inner Mongolia). They would have possibly been able to defeat Mongolia entirely but politically they are restrained by the Soviet Union. During the World War, many smaller wars are ongoing. Not the least of these is the Chinese Civil War of 5 warlords. Nationalist China and Communist China were at war with 3 other Chinas. Tibet and Mongolia could have significantly changed the outcome by leaning differently Communist or American than they ended up doing so. Tibet may have had one last chance to incite a decolonization war in India against the British. I don't know how many influential people would have supported that, but in a region of the world with tens of millions of people, it would not hard I'm sure to find that even a radical view could be found among 10,000 armed individuals. Enough to possibly throw the map into more chaos. If the Indians had risen up against the British and declared independence, if India and Tibet had forged a new faction during these times, China would be more significantly divided and not as strongly aligned Western. This could have swayed Washington to look ahead to the influence the Soviet Union had in Asia already and it may have been possible for Japan's political situation to become even more complicated and fraught than its military one. But the US may have supported Japan against Mongolia, against the Soviet Union. All it takes to imagine how things might have ended up differently is to imagine that China, in the middle of a civil war, ends up divided and therefore crushed, while other powers exert influences over the pieces. Han, Mongol, Tibet, Dzungar/Uighyur. I've forgotten the 5th China. Japan had almost entirely defeated the Han. Mongolia would be a Cold War. Tibet was not guaranteed to be Allied. And Japan seems to have had the Siamese peninsula mostly locked up since the French could hardly keep it. Japan may not have had any chance to hold China. But they did have a chance to destroy it and almost completely succeeded. Only because of the Soviet Union did Communist China emerge.
The last five seconds of this video clearly shows why the decision to employ the two atomic bombs was the right thing to do. The pacific war would have gone on longer and cost far more lives without their use. In the video you see and hear “boom boom” and then total surrender. RIP to all, both allies and axis, who lost their lives in such a foolish endeavor by power hungry and evil men.
Not all islands were taken. The US had an island hopping strategy and only took the islands they needed on their way to Japan. Everything else was blockaded and left to starve.
My great-grandfather served in the Kwantung Army of Manchukuo. However, he was discharged due to injury in 1940. He said that the Manchurians were a ragtag group.
Thank you for watching the video,
Now here to address mistakes here that I have already replied to, but it seems like people just comment those mistakes again and again.
First, yes I know I messed up at Papua campgains and the Indonesian Ones, same with the Okinawa and Iwo Jima landings. So here I address them here, I can't do anything about it but only to address it.
Second, the Philippines Campgain of 1944-1945 Is shown, it might be cause you can't see it clearly but I done it.
Third, the Pacific island hopping can't be shown due to the map, it just doesn't show the islands, I would included army sizes and Lines that show pacific control over The Allies and the Japanese, but I can't find any data for it, it only shows data at the near end of the war in 1945 August, and the lines are too complex for me to do in a way that it doesn't overlap with the other shape layers that I do in Editing.
Now I hope I answered most your questions for what hasn't been done. Thank you for watching once again.
P.S. Note that if you are looking for the maps I use in my videos, for most of my videos I use Google Earth Studio and take a Snapshot, for this Video I used Google Earth Pro.
What about the Soviet sponsored anti-ROC Ili rebellion that involved SOV ground troops?
I wish the music a bit lower so you could hear the broadcasts easier, otherwise nice video.
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Seeing a 5 to 1 ratio in the Chinese-Japenese war is insane, The Japenese forces were extremely powerful against the Chinese ones, in which that taught me alot.
And Japan is still pushing
It also helps that Japan was taking advantage of the Chinese civil war
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China’s weapon at that time was far behind the world. When Japanese soldiers are using modern weapons, Chinese soldiers probably still using weapons like muskets etc
I think people forget china was literally having a civil war at the time
And the Japanese soldiers were fascist monsters, and their brutality is fsvourable in war as seen with Germany
I never realized how little conquered territory Japan had lost at the time of its surrender, especially when compared to Germany, which was almost completely overrun by the time they finally gave up.
Japan lost a lot of "sea". Midway to Okinawa is over 1000mi
Japan made a massive mistake during its colonisation period. Instead of naturalising the citizens of the empire, they often mistreated the local populations (especially the Japanese army, which was more brutal than the Japanese navy). In doing so, barely any soldiers of the empire were not Japanese thanks to Japan's mistrust towards non-Japanese people. This created a massive problem by the end of the war since there were not many soldiers left to fight, even though hundreds of thousands of Koreans had applied for jobs in the military in the previous years. The Mongolian Empire, on the other hand, mostly recruited people from conquered lands, which was possible thanks to the Mongols'inclusiveness (Khan's tolerance towards religions, for example, is very well documented) and that's how it spread so far. Had Japan treated Korea and China the same way they treated Taiwan, the empire would have been a lot more stable. Had they recruited people from those lands as well, they would have been in an even better position. At that point, the allies wouldn't just have been fighting Japan bust all of East Asia. Germany could have never done the same thing because its expansion was a results of aggression from neighbouring countries and a severe superiority complex. Japan, on the other hand, could have chosen to unify the East for real. But, it sadly didn't. What's also important to note is that Japan is an island while Germany isn't. To defeat Germany, an invasion of Europe by the allies was obligatory. On the other hand, to defeat Japan, the allies needed to either force Japan to surrender by bombing them (which they did) or invade the homeland, which would have been a horrible idea given the Japanese's devotion towards their country. An invasion of China, Korea or the South-East would have given the allies no benefits
@@Ricky911_ WTF are you talking about, Japan conscripted heavily in Korea, first for labor and later for military. Also, Taiwanese participation in the IJA/IJN was hardly any better than Korean participation.
Japanese holdings in China weren't a part of Japan, they were ruled as a series of puppet states. The issue is that Chinese troops had loyalty and reliability issues, but they were useful for internal security and that's how they were utilized. As for other puppet states, you're talking about states that's only existed for 2~3 years. State building has barely begun, let alone building a working military.
@@taoliu3949 Between 1938 and 1943, 800k Koreans applied for military applications but only a little over 17k were enlisted. You could have literally just done a Google search before saying that. The fact that they conscripted for labour isn't something I talked about because it's true. Japan was looking for cheap labour and there was no shortage of it by the end of the war. What they were lacking, was soldiers. Most of China was made up of puppet states but not all of China. Manchuria, for example, had been taken in 1931, 6 years before they invaded the rest of China yet they still hesitated to naturalise them into the empire. I suggest you read about Kishi Nobusuke, the Japanese PM between 1957 and 1960. He oversaw the industrialisation of Manchuria between 1936 and 1941, committing a lot of crime against humanity in the process. Japan could have easily had loyal soldiers from Manchuria as well as other parts of China if they had treated the people there well. Massacring 300k people at Nanjing certainly didn't help with their image
@@Ricky911_ That's how us British did it with our empire. We recruited locally but made sure the officers were mostly British for the "white" nations Canada, NZ, Australia and South Africa. They were "our sort". The non-white nations were not. The British army itself was very small. In the 1930's it barely existed at all. Most defence spending in those days went on the Royal Navy and airforce. It was only the threat of war with Germany in the late 1930's that forced the government to increase defence spending.
This video will reach a million views one day. Thank you for covering the pacific . So many people ignore it .
yeah the chinese front is so overshadowed by the western (no offense)
who knew that a GTA youtuber would be such a history buff
I'm shocked that people ignore it, Europeans treat it like a sideshow, it was extremely important and without USA intervention those japs would have never been dislodged.
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And you wonder why US logi was so good during the War?
The Nazis even sent a Oppressor Mark 2 to grief The Professionals grandpa. It ran out of fuel due to Germany’s fuel problem and British and American Radar picked it up because, Germany didn’t have enough Stolen Jewish Money to pay Lester.
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This is awesome! Great visuals bro
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Food for thought. Most of the major battles fought by the US in the pacific on the ground were fought on bits of rock that can barely be seen on a map of the region. These battles at the same time would be no less ferocious or critical than those elsewhere even if the amount of land mass ultimately taken was tiny.
Island hopping maximized the value of the naval advantage the US had developed (the same logic by which Japan had taken the islands in the first place, when the advantage was theirs).
Yeah. The Japanese fought like rabid dogs for every conquered land they gained. It would be admirable if the government and army (For Japan ww2 is one and the same) weren’t ferocious monsters
@@dudermcdudeface3674Not only that, but islands like Pelileu and Iwo Jima were critical as their capture meant US bombers were finally in range of the Japanese mainland.
Was cake walk compared to eastern front
This video should have used flags instead of tiny colored pixels for islands so we could see the island hopping.
Only Chinese can undersand how hard the situiation was in 1931 to 1945 for China. We did not give up. Thanks for the help from USA. Salute to the 20 million Chinese who lost their life in WWII. ❤
日本と中国の対立と憎悪は、作られたものです。どうせ中国も日本も戦費（国債）を同じところから調達しているでしょう。日中の両者を戦争させて、莫大な借金をさせて、両方から利息を稼ぐ仕組みです。一生懸命に反日映画を中国のテレビで垂れ流しているのは、そのためですよ。いつでもおかわりを狙えるように。
日本が降伏する形で終戦したにもかかわらず、ドイツと異なりなぜか日本は存続したのは、借金返済する人に消えてもらっては困るからね。中国共産党ですらその仕組みための道具に過ぎないことでしょう。
What does the USA have to do with it?
@@ShagolduvdndThey helped us by sending volunteer air forces and military supply. We.were.allies
@@ShagolduvdndDid you see the map at the end? By 1945 the Chinese were still losing land and the Japanese isolated half the country. The only reason China got out alive was Japan surrendering to the Allies.
@@ShagolduvdndAmericans were volunteering in China to fight the Japanese including roles such as pilots. America already knew what was next given the current times of fascist Europe rising to extreme levels and Japan already tooled up for conquest.
Do more history research America helped China a lot to survive.
I'm glad you made the chinese front in such good detail, it's a very overlooked part of the war. Hell, I was half-expecting you to just start in 1941, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Me too!
The British too. Americans think they won the war on their own but they just arrived late kicking and screaming as usual.
@@chickenmadness1732Okay what did you guys do; sink Japanese ships near Sri Lanka, and defend India because that's what you guys did.
@@chickenmadness1732 to be fair even if the war in China was pretty much in a stalemate, Japan was progressing dangerously in the Pacific.
The US was critical in the IIWW when supplying the "free" world with their superior and untouched industrial complex and depriving the axis of those same goods.
And if the US did anything important (militarily) in the war was in the Pacific theater, were they effectively turned the tie. Even with that, only the Soviet intervention convinced the Japanese that they no longer could keep their empire and the days of a Major World Power were over.
Why? Because the war of the Soviets was the same as the war of the Japanese, sacrificing as many men as necessary. Japan's strategy was to tire the Americans psychologically, because they were convinced that being a democracy, with the wounds of the civil war just closed and having next to no experience in big wars, that could be done regardless of Japanese casualties.
And the Russians... Well, you see that Germany proved the world that they couldn't be tired and had to be exterminated, something Japan never could have done.
@@plorabare Lol now Brits are trying to take credit for the Pacific, doesn't get any more delusional
Never knew how far Japan got into modern day Myanmar, wish the pacific theater was covered more often
In 1944 they even got into far eastern India
@@themelonman4303While having practically no supplies...oil...food... And being outnumbered. Quite literally Japanese willpower and late-war last ditch Arisaka rifles against the British empire and their Indian slaves+Chinese support
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this video of the war imo shows it all better
It is covered more often. You're just living in the United States.
@@polishlithuaniainanutshell5146it is covered a lot in the unitedvstates lol. The country won the pacific war
Finally! Thanks for this types of maps, seeing the army sizes is just perfect.
Technically, on land, WWII started and ended in Manchuria (Manchukuo). Invaded by the Japanese in 1931, and by the Russians in August of 1945.
Good thinking haha
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It was just a normal war. Definetly not a worldwar. During the polish invasion, way more countries were involved. Including the french and british colonies.
@@lubitel_tankov.it's just a way of expression
World war 2 started when the British and French empires declared war on Germany. A world war means that many countries or regions of most or all continents are at war.
"They got tanks, they got planes, and we got nothing. What are we going to do?"
"The answer is obvious. If you don't want to be slaves, let us build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood!"
That's how men fight. Look at the actions of France....
My grandad fought for the US in this theater, he was in Saipan didn’t really talk about it much at all he came back to a country that still didn’t treat his people well either as a second generation immigrant from the Caribbean , but he used his GI bill to go to university I’m so proud of him and may he rest in peace.
U shouldnt be proud of soldiers. Nor of politicians. A lesson i hope u learn in life.
@@AGTaNGrA.u r lost 😂😂😂
My Great Grandfather fought in both World Wars in the Eastern fronts and the Russian Civil War
one of the only mistakes i saw was that the US didn't control okinawa or iwo jima
And the Solomon Islands
I thought the soviets had overrun most of Hokkaido by the end of
Here before this explodes, I’ve always wanted to see one of these army sizes every day pacific theater and now we finally have one. Awesome video dude!
funny joke ngl
@@kayckinwait what do you mean?
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I actually wanted to see the sea battles, as it's the only reason Japan lost. The land forces had of course more soldiers involved but were comparatively less significant.
This video does a good job at displaying the hopelessness of the japanese situation.
by 1938 the japanese army was already in a stalemate fighting a force numbering twice their manpower. It's pretty clear that by this point, japan was already fighting its very own soviet union failure we see with the nazis.
people often wonder what drove the japanese to attack the u.s and other european powers in the region, seeing it as a mistake on their part. The reality is that japan was fighting its last ditch efforts by 1941. They were at this point of the war already outnumbered 4-1 in manpower. Adding to that, the chinese were being provided with weapons and resources by the allied nations, meanwhile they were already running low on the resources they needed to drive their way through china.
It was clear to the japanese that if this continued there was no hope they could possibly outlast the chinese who continued to grow by the day. This is the reason why the japanese decided to attack the u.s and allies, so that they could cut off all their supplies to the chinese mainland and acquire the resources from their colonies in the pacific to fuel their war. The hope was that they would be able to hold off the allies long enough in the pacific to finalize their efforts in the chinese mainland. We can see that by 1944 the plan had worked somewhat and some progress in their invasion had been made, but by then it was too little too late and the japanese were already losing to american forces in the pacific.
Thats because this was an unjust war to steal another country's territory and resources. As a result, the Japanese government wasnt able to call a full mobilization to conscript all male citizens until they declare war to the allies in 1941. Same thing that went for Nazi Germany in ww2, Germany wasn't able to call a full mobilization until 1943 by minister Speer. Most people are not stupid, they understand to fight as a soldier meaning possibly dying in battle. They simply refuse if there is not a good reason.
Do not be so critical, the United States at that time fought on the side of Japan, supplied resources, and military specialists and intelligence were at the front in China, at the headquarters of Japan. Have you heard of Detachment 731? In those years, they often lectured in the United States as invited experts. It was the gap in US aid to Japan that forced Japan to attack and it was in 41. Let me remind you that the Japanese-Chinese war began at 37. 4 years difference.
@@dimushka383USA did not fight on the side of japan wtf
@@astronova3508 not openly.
I said something else.
They supplied resources, technologies and military specialists there, as well as provided intelligence.
The contact was very tight.
But the main thing I wanted to say is that in 1938 Japan had no problems, on the contrary, they were going to success, the problems began in 1941, just at that time the United States turned away from them, and the US military specialists crossed the front line and began to work already for China , moreover, funny, from the side of Japan they took out maps with the location of troops and the directions of the planned strikes.
And so that you have no doubts about how tight the contact between the USA and Japan was, take an interest in the fate of the 731 detachment of Japan, do you know what kind of detachment it is? What is he famous for and what awaited them if they were defeated in the war? So, with the already expected defeat of Japan and the threat of their capture by the Russians and the Chinese and the imminent execution for crimes, the entire elite was evacuated to the USA, where they received positions as professors and group leaders at US universities and laboratories.
Look who interceded for group leader Shiro Ishii, US generals and admirals, and his non-prosecution was guaranteed on behalf of the country.
@@dimushka383 duuuuude grab a history book or something
The most underrated and over looked aspect of the war in the Pacific is the near total destruction of Japanese shipping. By the wars end, they were not really even able to evacuate troops from many Islands due to lack of merchant shipping and transports due to allied (mostly American) submarine wolfpacks and allied decryption tactics.
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You refer to American submarines destroying Japanese shipping as if it were a military achievement for the United States. Then, do you know "Tragedy of Tsushima Maru"? During the war, Japan mobilized adults, while children were evacuated to regions where they were less likely to be damaged by air raids, as they were the future leaders of Japan. The Tsushima Maru was carrying 1,700 people, including children, women, and the elderly, and headed for the evacuation destination. However, it was attacked and sunk by the American submarine USS Bowfin, killing most of its passengers. Those of you who were victorious in the war may not know this, but in Japan it is still talked about as a tragedy during the war. I think we need to pay more attention to the tragedies caused by wars, not just the victories and defeats of wars.
@@亜矢子四栁 In Japan do they also talk about Imperial soldiers putting babies on spears, or the rape of Nanking, the brutal slavery and starvation of POWs, sexual slavery of woman in the occupied areas, beheading POWs, human experimentation, mass killings, Manila massacre when Japanese soldiers killed 100,000 Philippine civilians, cannibalism of allied soldiers, attacking hospital ships? What about those things. They showed no mercy to the civilians of occupied nations nor the allied POWs. Agreed though, war is a breeding ground of tragedies.
@@Taczy2023and the human experiments
Thank you! I’ve always wanted to see this
Great Video! The numbers really put the China front into-perspective.
I learnt so much from a war I previously knew so little about - thanks.
manpower was the only thing really going for china, they lacked everything else, chinese were operating on a constant shortage of guns and artillery, training in most units was poor at best, plus there were internal politics with chiang trying to keep the warlords united as well as dealings with the communists
@@justit1074yes, the Chinese were badly equipped, badly trained, and has been embroiled in civil war and industrialization was kinda difficult for the country
FINALLY!! I've been waiting for a pacific war like this amazing one! Keep it up!
Also, how do you make an island be colored by a shape layer?
the japanese operations in south china during the final year of the war are very impressive, considering the circumstance
The Japanese weren't totally out of the war like most believe. They were on their last legs, but it wasn't going down without fighting, the plan from day one was to.
The Japanese home islands still received 8 million tons of supplies in 1945 to put into perspective that's what the USA used to fight on the western front from North Africa to Europe.
The Japanese military was still massive 6 million strong with over 1million allies/ pupets when it surrendered, it still posesed 20,000 to 50,000 aircraft the majority were held back for defence operations of the home islands, majority were to be used for kamikaze attacks if the USA landed or attempted to land on Japan.
They also called up over 31million men woman and children as young as 8 armed with just bamboo spears for mass kamikaze attacks and construction why waiting for the invasion.
They also had thousands of speedboat for again kamikaze attacks and divers, it would have been unlike anything we had seen in ww2 had the invasion gone ahead.
@@brianlong2334 the biggest blow to them was how fast the soviets took them out in mandshuria.
@@brianlong2334 On the other hand, they were doomed, because the Soviets defeated all the ground forces on the mainland, taking only more than 600 thousand soldiers (consider no reinforcements), and captured the northern islands with landing forces. Opening your way already in the heart of Japan. The Japanese were squeezed on the islands, forcing them to defend themselves from all sides, dispersing their forces against much stronger enemies, it is impossible to create a strong defense everywhere. OK. From the north, the threat of landing on Hokaido from the USSR, from the south, the landing of the allies on Kyushu. But these are already the sacred islands of Japan itself, where both the population and industry are concentrated. A hit on them immediately removes all opportunities for further resistance, no matter what spirit you have.
They always had mobility and organization to do that but it didn't serve any strategic purpose
@@dimushka383the Soviet’s could not have invaded Hokkaido 😂
The number of people in the comments who think the campaigns against Japan were all American is mind numbing. On the mainland the majority of fighting was done by the millions of Chinese and hundreds of thousands of British and Indian troops, and at sea the British navy made up about 25% of the American naval forces, with heavy input from ANZAC forces in PNG. Americans DID make up the majority of the island hopping forces and were the decisive force in the Pacific campaign, but they were far from alone.
And don't forgetthe native islanders resistance
So imagine Japan, fighting all of them! and winning during the early stage of WW2, thats how strong Japan was.
@@mitjed Japan really was a mid tier power in WW2. The British defenses were dilapidated, under supplied and understaffed as Britain focused on Germany. The United States entered the war with a tiny standing military and sent 90% of the war effort toward the "Germany first" policy. The only country that brought their full force to fight Japan was China. And ofc, China was coming off a century of stagnation, revolution, fragmentation and civil war.
@@doctorferdinand1003 That's probably what the Colonists (Dutch, US, British empire and France) where thinking lol mid tier power. Japan was just a mid tier power. When in reality, Japan pre WW2 has one of the strongest army and navy in the world. Disciplined and fearless. Their army are able to defeat a more numerical armies of the west and China, fighting at the same time in a different lands. Nobody in history has ever wage war at the same time in East Asia, Aleutian Islands, South East Asia and Pacific Islands before.
@@mitjed Yea, like danish.
I appreciate that you've simulated the Pacific theatre. This part was undermined in world war 2
Rest in peace 29 million Soldier and civilian died during the worst asia era ever,and thank you pigeon for covering the pacific war i appreciate 😢
WW1 was kinda worse tbh
@@Dudefrom8Carsonno it wasn't. No genocides or as many deaths as WW2 even the Pacific Front alone
@@definitelynormal6678there were definitely genocides in ww1
@@definitelynormal6678 laughs in armenian genocide, Greek genocide, Assyrian genocide
@@QWERTY-gp8fdHolocaust was way scarier, there are about 6-7 million victims of the Holocaust at least
Japan wanted to bee seen for a long time as an Empire that could go toe to toe with the western empires. I think they surely achieved that.
Japan also crushed the Russian navy in 1905, completely sunk their Baltic fleet during the first modern navy battles, while they were barely a burgeoning power
@@Big_Caesar1to be fair the Russian navy was trash lol.
And Russia was just massive at the time.
@@user-rj4gu5oh3k That can be said for basically any point in Russian history, but it was a pretty big embarrassment at the time, Japan was viewed as irrelevant, backwards, incapable, not fit to stand with the great powers. Japan didn't ask Russia to sail across the world to get their ass kicked, to be fair.
@@Big_Caesar1 yep the problem too at the time was the Russian tsars did not give a fuck about anything including infrastructure.
Which would mean they could simply not transport their troops fast enough to the front causing them to be embarrassed by the Japanese.
@@user-rj4gu5oh3kTo be fair, look up pretty much any war that Russia/USSR fought in and they performed extremely poorly.
Japan is, to my knowledge, the only nation to conquer all of Southeast Asia. There will probably never be another power to do so given the enormous difficulties involved. The horrible atrocities committed aside, it was an unbelievable military accomplishment.
Your channel and the quality of your videos have improved greatly ever since I watched one of your first videos, this is a masterpiece
Japanese were outnumber many times over yet continued to make gains. Shows how important training and equipment are in war.
This is why the Japanese no longer dare to invade modern China
The Japanese soldiers who fought on Iwo Jima and Okinawa were all junior high school students. The elite of the Japanese Army was in mainland China.
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Considering at one point the Chinese had 0 tanks and at another half the army was armed with swords because of lack of guns they did alright, imagine if it was a unified country with proper military at the time
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If they had proper military at that time Chinese would probably still struggle but it would completely Make Japan Fear ROC.
@@J-Balberan.Nah. Considering China's population, if they had a proper military, Japan would have kissed any hopes of victory goodbye
Although China soon lost the northeast and North China, but because it was their own country, so their army stubbornly resistance, always stalemate with Japan. In contrast, the areas of Southeast Asia that were occupied by the British, the French, etc., were lost so quickly that they seemed to have no resistance at all. If the Japanese had initially shifted their focus of attack from North China to Southeast Asia with more troops, they would have been in a better position to not lose so much in resources and manpower in China.
That is absolutely untrue. Japan never wanted to expand the war, they did not have the capability to do so. Had Shanghai not happened, Japan could have just steamrolled China in the Central Plains. What happened was Chiang expanded the war by attacking the Japanese garrisons in Shanghai, which ended up with Japan sending hundreds of thousands of troops pushing along the Yangtze River Valley. This meant Japan could not utilize their mech advantage and instead of what would have been a more decisive conflict, it turned into a stalemate and war of attrition. After that, everything Japan did was an attempt to cut China off from outside resources, hence capturing of ports, and then French Indochina (Kunming Railroad ran to Hanoi). This greatly alarmed the Western Powers, especially the US who proceeded to embargo Japan of important resources such as oil.
@@taoliu3949It's untrue. Since 1894 the first Sino Japanese war,Japan has made it's expanding plan that makes the whole east and sourtheast Asia it's own territory.Up to 1895,it annexed Taiwan(a province of Qing dynasty)and fought for the rule in the Northeast China with Russia.After the WWI,it took the rights German in Shandong Province,and prevented the unification of China led by KMT and CCP and had terrible conflict with Chinese Army.In 1931（6 years earlier than the Pacific War）,it invaded the Northeast China and definitely made Northeast China it's own territory.On the contrary,it was Chiang that didn't want to fight with Japanese even Japs wanted to destroy China because of his own civil war plan in China with CCP.
@@taoliu3949 China might have lost the conventional war and fell quickly like France had Japan assembled a march larger army like they first have a total of 7 million troops all at once with 6 million soldiers in the army branch and 1 million troops in the other military branches then Japan can have 1 million troops to maintain order, a total of 5 million troops to attack China in WW2 with 4 million active troops and 1 million active reserves in order to replace any losses, then out of the 4 million active troops, Japan can use 3.5 million soldiers supported by massive amounts of tanks, aircraft, and other equipment to steamroll China in the central plains then use 500,000 troops for the battle of shanghai. Then the war might have ended much faster had Japan used this blitzkrieg tactic.
@@Kingcorwin69 Except that Japan never wanted to get involved in a full scale war in China to begin with. Tokyo had no interests in getting into a shooting war with China to begin with, but IJA officers on the ground would constantly cause issues and escalate the situation. The decision to send troops into Shanghai itself was divisive in Tokyo.
Not to mention your own proposal is unrealistic. Japan even at the height of the war had no more than maybe 4 million troops in China, half of which were in Manchuria to deter any possible Soviet aggression. The remaining troops in China Proper suffered from logistics issues due to the poor Chinese infrastructure. In other words, Japan couldn't even properly supply what they had in China, but your proposal is to increase their numbers 4-fold. And that's without taking into consideration the threat that is USSR. Heck, the IJA at its largest was only 6 million.
@@taoliu3949 Actually had Japan have a total of 6.8 million troops and out of these 6.8 million troops, they can have 1 million troops in the air force and navy, and 5.8 million troops in the ground force, they can use 1 million ground troops to maintain order supported by an unknown number of Chinese collaborators in the occupied territories to fight any resistance, they can then use a total of 4.8 million ground troops to attack China, then of these 4.8 million ground troops, 1.3 million ground troops would serve as active reserves to reinforce the front and replace any losses, then have the remaining 3.5 million ground troops to be active in attacking China and of these 3.5 ground million active troops, they can use 2.8 ground million soldiers to attack from the North (Manchuria) and 700,000 ground troops to attack Shanghai, then they can quickly blitz China and conquer China within one year or right before the year 1939 which could occur before any trade embargos.
Wait, didn't Japan lose several islands in the pacific before surrendering? Sorry, but I think your map was a little inaccurate, friend... no offense or diminish your work!
I forgot to color Okinawa as blue during the Editing time, and some landings in the Indonesian Islands. But thank you for speaking out for this mistake.
@@pigeoninanutshellwhat about philipinee?
Philipines
@@tobikbobik6064the Philippines were erased 😞
@@pigeoninanutshell The Editing time? Do you mean that the surrender of Japan is the beginning of the American occupation of Japan? While other countries are nothing to you.
The front doesn't move in New Guinea, Philippines or Borneo late in the war. How many American and Australian troops were deployed that this video doesn't mention?
i have waited for this man
Having been a Marine, I’ve come to acknowledge the sheer brutality and criminal underappreciation of the Pacific campaign. It was personal and deadly, yet everyone glorifies the European campaign. Thank you for this video and may the souls of my big brothers rest easy in the presence of God.
What? It's commonly acknowledged the Pacific theatre was absolutely brutal, for the Americans even more so than in Europe. There is a reason they felt the need to drop two nukes on Japan just to force them to the negotiation table. I'm not sure who is supposed to be underappreciating it.
@@caspertrog1046 The Americans didn't suffer as much as the Europeans, please study your history before making a statement like that. How many casualties did the Americans have?
@@colinyau5063 A lack of American casualties is a bad thing? It just shows America's effectiveness against the Japanese war machine lol.
@@waldo_9338 it just shows that they weren't that committed. and waited till everything is done by the Soviets to rush to the Berlin.
@@caspertrog1046 Japan was forced to the negotiation table by the Soviets defeating Kwantung Army what they barely show in the video. the vile terror act of dropping nuclear bombs on civil cities was just a display of power. it was done for another negotiations. the division of the world with USSR.
it would've been nice if you showed control over the Pacific itself too (maybe with a line to show which is Japanese and which is Allied?)
YOU ARE CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED!
What a masterpiece‥dear best mapper.
this does NOT show the island battles, which are crucial to the war effort. Would be cool if the battles are shown with arrows that change colors depending on territorial control ratio instead of just none.
Speaking of the video, I'm astonished with the 5:1 ratio of the chinese v japanese armies. Sad to say that Kuomintang corruption led their demise.
That was my original idea but the islands are not visible on my map cause i got it off google earth, i would of included army sizes but i lacked information.
@@pigeoninanutshell yeah that was a problem too, there's a problem with the army sizes for each island battle. however arrows with different colors could do the job of mapping the islands
Kuomintang corruption =)
The Kuomintang, the only one who really fought in China for China.
Corruption is more likely among those who hid in Taiwan after the war. They fought the Kuomintang more than the Japanese.
Yeah, there were plenty of islands visible on this map and they just stayed red until the end. Kinda dissapointing.
工业水平和资源和军队素质日本那时候都有优势
I love your video
Missed Borneo
Still good work though!
My jaw literally dropped at the end as the war was almost over and the Japanese forces are nearly undefeated and still fighting all over Pacific!
A war between Asia's only industrial power and an agrarian nation would have been a continuing hellish ordeal for China without Western arms, and when Japan faced the Soviet Union, it was crushed by a Soviet tank cluster。
that is precisely why the atomic bombs were used
too many casualties would've ensued if the war dragged on
Yes, but on the Chinese mainland Japanese troops were bogged down and confronted with countless Chinese soldiers, and in the Pacific and Indonesia, Japanese soldiers were being killed off by disease and malnourishment
@@Taixvshan違いますよ
@@コワルスキー-u8p 中共が勝ったのは、ソ連軍が撤退したあと、ソ連軍の兵器と日本軍の兵器を使って、250万人の近代的な軍隊をたったの10カ月でつくりあげたからです。
国軍の上将は回想して、共産軍の火力は私が抗日の時すべて出会ったことがないので、ソ連は全く保留の援助の中共の武器、しかしまた中国を分割したくて、ソ連と米国が予想しなかったのは共産党の壮大な速度が速すぎたのです。中華人民共和国の成立は西洋のゲームで言えば突然のバグです。
西洋は日本の国を支援して、中国市場を植民地のように徹底して統制することを目的としていたが、日本は西側に依存しながら生意気になって、結局は倒れた。 戦後米国と中華民国が中米友好通商条約に調印したのも、中国を半植民地にしたためだ。 歴史に仮説はない。誰が共産党がいきなり勝ったと思うだろうか。?今の中国人にとっては、国が強くなり、この世代も苦難を経験したことがありません。しかし、わずか50年前の中国人が食事不足だったとは、誰が想像できますか?
今の中国の文化が孤立主義になっているのは、中国が徹底して外国人を嫌っているからです。私たち中国人の言葉で言えば、残酷な外国は外国人に対する私たちの高潔さを徹底的に破壊しました。
As someone who studies ww2 in, excellent work.
Me
Here before this video blows up
this was incredibly well done
bro literally made this an Ms paint lol probably took 1-2 days
this is actually very easy to do
@@trentonking764 even if it does, it’s all about how accurate it is. I mean if you are calling it so easy why aren’t you doing it right now and earn yourself a living
Japan still had a lot of territory at the time of surrender. It also seemed like they were not going to surrender in China any time soon.
Hence the nukes. The perfect example of why they were necessary.
@@theemirofjaffa2266
The Soviets would have taken the whole of Japan too
@@supereero9 No? They literally cancelled an operation that would’ve taken half of Hokkaido because they didn’t have enough available landing craft and the availability of Japanese kamikaze and other stiff resistance they’d face
@@theemirofjaffa2266the Japanese armies in China by this point was largely disintegrating and exhausted, they were facing constant hassle in the rural parts of the country by guerrilla forces and supply shortages, but yeah justify crimes against humanity that’s fine
@Keiko-rb8lf crimes against humanity? You talking about crimes against humanity? 😆 🤣 😂
glad that China never surrendered , most of you never realize how disaster to the whole world if China surrendered and capitulated to Japan before 1943
Author of the video don't listen to the haters they are just jealous with ur incredible skills of animating!!!
Amazing video man!
It’s truly amazing how much Chinese territory the Japanese took. Although they were more advanced in weaponry, occupying a country with about 8 times your population is impressive.
Yes, because China was an agricultural country at that time and had not industrialized yet.
@@cy-cb8rs oh really?
@@chibble3591and it was population of 1:4 not 1:8
@@chibble3591with naval and aerial and equipment superiority the difference is really large, even though, Chinese United front and the river incident is important for holding the Japanese, else if China is not United against Japan the same would happen as how the qing dynasty Manchuria worked out, Japanese were out of oil so they had no choice but to attack Allie’s to get oil in rest of asia
@@chibble3591n fact: before around 1939,1940 the Chinese actually had hundreds of tanks from Germany while Japan had none
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Quality better than quantity
Depends on the quantity and the quality
Both is important
because Chinese don't have guns tanks and plants at that time. you will see what can Chinese do if they have guns in Korea war. by the way Chinese don't have tanks and plants in that war.
Lol Germany lost because of quantity ussr won because of quantity
@@progamer-pd2ji ussr wining has many reason not just quantity. Resources, better decision, winter helping, better allies and ...
It’s just crazy that they started a war with the us and Allie’s when they were in the middle of a very brutal one already. But they needed fuel
A parallel with Nazi Germany.
The USA cut of oil crippling the Japanese, knowing they would act aggressively so that the American population would be mobilised for war.
The war in the Pacific was Americans doing, the Japanese went after the islands to become self sufficient, the war in China was also about stopping what the USA did to them in the first place kinda iconic.
@@brianlong2334 ?
@@_blank-_ yo?
@@brianlong2334 Don't know where you find the research to support your idea. Maybe you want to look further. That the US stopped the Japanese seeking oil for self sufficiency is not true. Look again. You have received incorrect information.
What's with the little circle of Chinese holdouts in Hainan?
Some mountain-top the Japanese never bothered to climb?
Pretty much. Japan lacked the power to control interior areas which made them suitable Holdouts for guerillas.
The Hoi4 music makes this video 10 times better
Even tho the Japanese Army sizes are smaller than the Chinese Army sizes, It shows how powerful they were in the beginning because they were still winning
Germany almost defeated Soviet union who has 2 times more troops than germany
But China has 5 times more troops than japan and japan still pushing
Top 2 reasons china was struggling against Japan:
1. Chinese civil war
2. Small industry
I'm rather impressed by how the Chinese were able to resist considering how backwards their military/industry was.
@@_blank-_t's not surprising at all, look at how many men they mobilized, at those numbers, each Japanese soldier would have had to kill 20 Chinese each. The numbers were completely against Japan
@@RandomInternetUser_24 yea
It’s crazy how dominating japans military was when seeing the size of their military vs. China.
China were a bunch of 1914 gunmen with no support vehicles Japan was modernized. You can see how moa go to popular with his “great leap forward” even if it didnt work
Many of the Chinese troops were poorly trained and equipped,
This map really doesn’t represent the reality of the situation, China didn’t have one unified army, it was in the midst of a civil war and extremely disorganised
I really need this, thanks brooo
Japan's rapid advance in Southeast Asia is militarily impressive. When Hitler heard the announcement about this achievement, he initially thought that the Japanese government was lying and that the announcement was exaggerated.
The islands we fought over were so small that you can't even seen them at this scale. It looks like Japan is doing great and then it's over.
That Banzai was epic.
At 1945 the northern japanese invaders connected with the southern slicing china in 2, they were determined to the end. Great video!
They needed to ship the supplies (most crucially fuel) from southeast Asia back to Japan. Going by sea was not the option since Philippines was captured and the Japanese navy was basically devastated (also the merchant shipping was lost to effective us submarines). By connecting a continuous land corridor from the tip of Malaysia to northern China, they can hope to ship supplies via there. Having the connection of north and south China was vital to that last hope.
War was fought on supplies.
@@doraemon61377 good to know ty for the info
@asenvelkov-a.k.a.Mr.Shephard you are welcome. One thing I realised when it comes to war is that there was always a reason (geopolitical or geoeconomic) for grabbing a certain territory. And it was not out of pure fanaticism but real strategic reason. Like why China is obsessing with taking Taiwan (unsinkable aircraft carrier near south China Sea) or why Germany insisted on marching through Ardennes during battle of France. I know this when I play hearts of iron 4.
I also added that the whole pacific war was started simply because japan needed southeast Asia (most importantly the oil from Dutch east indies) to finish the war with China. Since Japan was still winning the massive land war with China, they had that hope till 1945.
One very unfair thing that always comes out when people talk about ww2 is how, in the West, the Chinese are represented as helpless lambs, who were being wrecked by Japan until America came to the rescue.
Actually, the Chinese fought so bravely that they bogged down most of the Japanese army in a war of attrition for longer than ww2 lasted. Japan only took the European colonies in Southeast Asia and attacked the USA because the Chinese were turning the tide on them.
Chinese war effort should receive much more recognition.
I wouldn't say they're portrayed as helpless, but most people I've ever seen mention the Pacific front just barely mention it as "where Japan was in the first couple years"
Nope, the most unfair thing is that ussr destroyed japan half million forces in almost 1 week, but nobody tells about it. Not nuclear weapon made japan accept the defeat, but ussr forces did.
@@flatl1ne I mean, nobody talks about it cuz it's a ridiculous, untrue claim. lol Russia did not 'destroy' half a million forces in a week. There's simply no such thing. But going by your talking points, I'm guessing you're Russian yourself? Slava Ukraini. Get fucked.
потому что это называется "американская пропаганда". Американцы сделали во второй мировой войне от силы 5% вклада, но превозносят это так, будто они круче всех и вообще это они "победили".
@flatl1ne There is this delusional idea that it was one singular reason the Japs must have surrendered instead of taking a more nuanced look at the subject. It was a combination of factors that led the capitulation, the Soviet invasion and atomic bombs are just 2 of them.
Most of WWII in Asia amounted to the world’s most powerful Iron Age civilization fighting Asia’s biggest Steal Age powers.
Shanghai and Nanjing must have been a terrifying wake up call to the Chinese. Manpower alone could not stop Japan.
“Iron Age” and “steal age” ?????
Clearly it did lol
@@Snoopy9675 I believe he expressed the ecenturies of differences between the Japanese and the Chinese.
What the hell do you mean? That China didn't realize guns are powerful weapons? You don't just want industrialization for industralization to happen.
@@Snoopy9675 Man lives in Terra
My great grandfather fought against the Japanese Empire.
Respect for your Grandfather, such a brave man
@@DarkDaxter-ex7piYeah, he was a soldier of the NRA(China).
You grandfather is a criminal.
The video had some mistake, what I known is that by March 1945, American troops had landed in the Philippines
You can see it.
They landed in October 1944. Video doesn't show any of it. Neither the other important campaigns like Tarawa, Marshall islands, Mariannas, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Miserable failure.
@@MultiSr71blackbird The initial landings took place on very small portions of Philippines, ffs and took a little while before US could expand from it. Also calling it a 'miserable failure' cuz it didn't color in tiny little hardly-even-visible islands only shows how utterly miserable people like you are, trashing on somebody's hard work cuz it's not perfect while you haven't done shit. smh
The sequel nobody asked for, but needed.
My grandfather fought this war for the chinese. Hope there is no more war
5:13 British Malaya Army gone
5:33 British Burma Army gone
6:57 British _spams_ Kumars (2.1 million volunteers force British Indian Army)
Some serious errors from 1944-1945, you completely forgot the island hopping, the American invasion of the phillipines and Okinawa etc
The american invasion of phillipines is shown.
@@pigeoninanutshellNo it isn’t
AMERICAN not japanese in 1944
Is not shown at all
@abbfilmann3735 if you look closely he actually showed the liberation of the Philippines but the color is very similar to the ocean.
@@abbfilmann3735the liberation of philliphies is shown look closely man
"Pacific War" - shows mainly the progress in Indonesia and Asian mainland
Dutch east indies. Indonesia spawned from republican collaborators that caused the death of some 6million people in the DEI.
its crazy to see how much the japanese still owned by the war's end. They really would have kept going if we didn't send two nukes. They owned pretty much all of asia.
8:02 The Ratio of the Allies to Japan is Insane
Look at the Indian Front ratio of Allie troops to Japanese
(9: 3.5)
While look at the Chinese Front ratio of Ally to Japanese
(5:1)
The Japanese were clear outnumbered but still pushed through, the only front which they had the advantage was the New Guinea Front
(1.9 to 0.7)
That's because those were largely Chinese Troops who lacked heavy equipment.
And then Japanese got bodied in Indian Front
excellent video and will no doubt get a couple million views :)
PS: this was giving me hoi4 PTSD haha
Great work!!
where's like the entire island hopping campaign?
The islands were too small to be shown.
@@taoliu3949 he certainly could have shown some representation of the greater New Guinea campaign/landings and the Philippines. Solomons were just barely visible too - maybe he can do an island hopping video.
@@EntryLevelLuxury Phillipines were shown. He did admit to forgetting about New Guinea though.
The Chinese soldiers were not trained, short of weapon and ammunition, and lack of air superiority. It's amazing that they kept fighting until US joined in.
Thanks for huge population as you can see 1 Millions army vs 5.5 Millions army
5.5 million? Do you think an agricultural country with an annual steel production of 100,000 tons can equip an army of 5.5 million? Even Nazi Germany could only maintain 4 million soldiers on the front line
It's even more amazing when chinese soldiers had weapon, supplies and good training.
My grandfather joined Chinese Expeditionary Force in 1943 and were unstoppable in Burma
I like your videos bro😺👍
Here before it goes to 1 million
This video is incredible! Accurate, high quality, well made.
Unfortunately it's not accurate
No its not
The Japanese control Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Borneo, Formosa, Korea, Thailand and Burma in 1945, in addition to Manchukuo and Meijiang (Manchuria and Inner Mongolia).
They would have possibly been able to defeat Mongolia entirely but politically they are restrained by the Soviet Union.
During the World War, many smaller wars are ongoing. Not the least of these is the Chinese Civil War of 5 warlords.
Nationalist China and Communist China were at war with 3 other Chinas. Tibet and Mongolia could have significantly changed the outcome by leaning differently Communist or American than they ended up doing so.
Tibet may have had one last chance to incite a decolonization war in India against the British. I don't know how many influential people would have supported that, but in a region of the world with tens of millions of people, it would not hard I'm sure to find that even a radical view could be found among 10,000 armed individuals. Enough to possibly throw the map into more chaos.
If the Indians had risen up against the British and declared independence, if India and Tibet had forged a new faction during these times,
China would be more significantly divided and not as strongly aligned Western.
This could have swayed Washington to look ahead to the influence the Soviet Union had in Asia already and it may have been possible for Japan's political situation to become even more complicated and fraught than its military one. But the US may have supported Japan against Mongolia, against the Soviet Union.
All it takes to imagine how things might have ended up differently is to imagine that China, in the middle of a civil war, ends up divided and therefore crushed, while other powers exert influences over the pieces.
Han, Mongol, Tibet, Dzungar/Uighyur. I've forgotten the 5th China.
Japan had almost entirely defeated the Han. Mongolia would be a Cold War. Tibet was not guaranteed to be Allied.
And Japan seems to have had the Siamese peninsula mostly locked up since the French could hardly keep it.
Japan may not have had any chance to hold China. But they did have a chance to destroy it and almost completely succeeded.
Only because of the Soviet Union did Communist China emerge.
Japan did not fully control PNG. ANZAC's had like one fifth of the troop count but still held them off.
The US should have helped China before it was too late 🇺🇸🇹🇼
I doubt it would have help knowing how corrupt the KMT was
Usa already helping China by suplus and military training
The last five seconds of this video clearly shows why the decision to employ the two atomic bombs was the right thing to do. The pacific war would have gone on longer and cost far more lives without their use. In the video you see and hear “boom boom” and then total surrender. RIP to all, both allies and axis, who lost their lives in such a foolish endeavor by power hungry and evil men.
i like your video
why did you not do the actual pacific war in the phillipines, indonesia, etc.
Tibet: eating popcorn 🍿
Then commie...
Am I wrong or did u completely ignore the island hopping campaign and most importantly the Invasion of the Phillipines?
@TheReaICowfishyou can def see the phillipines from space my dude
The phillipines just casually sinking into the ocean during the final months of the war
I’ve long awaited this
Japan had a very aesthetically pleasing Empire when looking at a map imo
8:52 You forgot to make Okinawa blue
Not accurate...the southern islands were all taken by the americans and even as far north as iwo jima.
Not all islands were taken. The US had an island hopping strategy and only took the islands they needed on their way to Japan. Everything else was blockaded and left to starve.
very good video, i hope this video gets million views!!
Imo would be great if we could see the army sizes and control of the waters by each side.
Solomons, Philippines, Okinawa where?
Omg great video bro 🔥🔥🔥
My great-grandfather served in the Kwantung Army of Manchukuo. However, he was discharged due to injury in 1940. He said that the Manchurians were a ragtag group.
war criminal lol
Tibet in all the video: **eats popcorn**
周りの国全て敵という絶望的状況。
今も大して変わらん()
Yea that’s what happened when u invade every single one of your surrounded countries.