The Pacific War 🇯🇵 What exactly was it? Japanese History
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- Опубліковано 2 вер 2020
- In this video we’re taking a look at the events that caused the Pacific War, this lesson focuses on defining what is the Pacific War.
➡️ What is the Pacific War? It goes by so many different titles: Pacific War or Taiheiyō Sensō, The second Sino-Japanese war, WW2 Pacific Theater, Dai Tō-A Sensō or “The Greater East Asia War”, 5. Jūgonen Sensō or “Fifteen Years’ War”, Zhōngguó Kàngrì Zhànzhēng or “The War of Resistance" and Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to name just a few titles!. When did the Pacific War start and how does it fit into WW2 overall?
➡️ When did the Pacific War start and how does it fit into WW2 overall? This episode will explain what exactly is the Pacific War in all details while teasing the upcoming UA-cam series "The Pacific War" which will start with major events from 1830 all the way until 1945.
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I appreciate all the extra context the podcasts add to the videos, and the research that goes into them. To answer Craig's question about whether he should stop the impressions and accents, please do. They really take me out of the narrative. I'm thinking less about the history and more about why he's putting on the funny voice. Otherwise, love it.
@@webcelt haha done , I will stop them.
“Tower of Skulls” addresses the start of the war and the vitally important but under appreciated Chinese theater. Great book.
When I think ”The Pacific War” I think it started at the Marco Pollo Bridge incident. After that they basically continually fought until 1945. Everything before that were incidents leading up to that point.
Nice to see a familiar face :) thank you.
The Pacific War Channel Love the new setup reminds me of The Great War channel. This series should be great. I’ll keep tuning in.
Other significant countries involved were Australia, Thailand, New Zealand and the Netherlands. Russia was important at the end. There were other countries invovled in some areas at times. Portugal, Canada and France come to mind.
Looking forward to this.
Great stuff, subbed
I love this channel. Keep it up
Awesome!
Macarthur had his HQ in Australia for good reason. Seems strange Australia wasn't mentioned at all. Far more relevant than the Dutch East Indies, which is mentioned. The Battle of the Coral Sea was a turning point in the whole war. But on the whole, a good presentation, thanks.
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Un excelente y muy divertido vídeo. Saludos desde México.
Hey, what did you think of the Episode? Let us know in the comment's below! Next Episode will be "The Disaster that led to the Opium Wars"!
Sadly missing a time line. I for one am not very good a keeping dates in my head when thrown at me so fast. A timeline showing the various events 1st Sino Japanese war, Manchurian incident, Invasion of south east asia, UK declaration of war followed by US etc. A pretty picture puts it into more of a stream of events , somne parallel and sone sequential. This woudl make the inforamtion more available to me.
Also I actaully do not care about the name of the person who first inveted a phrase. That can be put in an annes. The environment that allowed the creation and use of the phrase is a better use of tiem than worryign about a name.
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Listening to podcast and there are a couple of words that get mispronounced so often...
Mortar, has a R in it. You say Motor, and I get a mental image of literal car motors lobbing over lines of enemies 🤣
Archibald Wavell pronounced WAVE-EL... a simple UA-cam search using his name brings up several videos where the newscasters say his name.
The Pacific War started on 7 Dec. 1941, or 8 Dec. if you are on the other side of the Date Line, like in the Philippines for example.
It can't be called Pacific War until the U.S. Navy is involved in it,
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Sino-Japanese war was secretly but deeply commited by UnitedStates and United kingdom.
Many Japanese do not think the pacific war started December 7 1941. It had already started.
Six months Before the attack on Perl Harbor by Japanese Navy, US stopped exporting petrol to Japan.
This oppression meant war. Japan would have been devasteted shortly, because every Japanese industry would have ruined and lots of Japanese would have been died out of starvation. Japan had no choice but to declare war against US. This fact was testified by MacArthur later.
Therefore, it should be called Asia-Pacific war. Pacific war is not enough, I believe.
I think Roosevelt purposely forced US into war by the embargo on Japan, but he also forced Germany to do the same by giving free weaponry to Germany's enemies and freezing all axis assets in the US. Roosevelt is the reason communism got so popular and is also the reason behind most modern diplomatic problems. Like how China is more powerful than Japan and Russia is more powerful than Germany, it should be the other way around.
Roosevelt ruined the world
@@BjornHeiden did Roosevelt ruin the worldwide economy or mishandle the “peace” after WW1
@@tylerjerabek5204 Woodrow Wilson too
_'Six months Before the attack on Perl Harbor by Japanese Navy, US stopped exporting petrol to Japan.'_
Correct.
_'This oppression meant war. Japan would have been devasteted shortly, because every Japanese industry would have ruined and lots of Japanese would have been died out of starvation. Japan had no choice but to declare war against US.'_
Incorrect.
Oil was not Japan's lifeblood. Coal was. And Japan had an abundance of coal (though not coking coal) in Kyushu and Hokkaido. Oil was the lifeblood of _the military_ , and the military was not 'the nation' though the leaders of the IJN and IJA mistakenly thought so, e.g. 'Rich nation, strong military' (富国強兵).
Prior to war with China in '37, oil provided 7.3% of Japan's total energy consumption - civilian, industry, government, and military. Coal (and coal gas) provided about 68% of the nation's energy consumption, hydroelectric 16 to 18% (depending on annual snow and rainfall), and biomass (usually charcoal and wood used for home cooking and heating) about 10%. BTW, though the US produced and consumed much more oil than Japan, the top provider of energy to America was coal as well. Coal was king in just about every industrialised country except for the few nations that had abundant hydroelectric power.
Japan began rationing oil products in 1938, two years before America's restriction on the export of aviation gasoline and three years before the restriction on the export of all oil products. We see companies like Toto, a maker of ceramic products that is energy intensive production, switch from oil to heat its kilns to coal and coal gas. Why? Because the military restricted its oil. Moreover, though the US was the world's largest producer of oil, _it was not the world's top exporter_ . Venezuela was. By a huge margin. In 1928, Venezuela surpassed the US as the world’s largest oil exporter, and by 1936, it was exporting almost as much oil as the next seven exporters combined-the United States, Peru, Iran, Romania, the Dutch East Indies, Iraq, and the Soviet Union (43.05 million tons versus 44.39 million tons). Even though the British Government owned oil fields and refineries in Iran, prior to WWII Venezuela was Britain's largest supplier of oil; Venezuela’s market share rose from 17 per cent to 49 per cent during the 1930s. Further, Venezuelan oil was cheaper than American. It was so cheap that in 1932 the US imposed tariffs on Venezuelan oil that removed it from the US market that had been its chief destination of output (peculiar that Venezuela didn't bomb Pearl Harbor in retaliation); these tariffs were ended in 1939 as American increased industrial production to arm its military and to aid Britain. Yet Japan did not diversify to Venezuelan, Mexican, or Peruvian oil. Peru's annual exports would have met about two-thirds of Japan's requirement.
Japan had 0.5% of the motor vehicles that US had, meaning little oil was used for these, and the fuel rationing of 1938 eventually removed private cars from the roads. By 1941 the 77,000 trucks operating in Japan had their allotment reduced to one-third the level of 1936. Railroads were powered by coal (intercity routes) and electricity (intracity routes). Even buses were converted to coal and charcoal beginning in 1938. Commercial airline service barely existed; Japan Air Transport carried 70,000 passengers in 1938, many of whom were military officers and government officials. Who other than the military was the chief consumer of petroleum? The merchant marine and the fishing fleet, yet many ships from these sectors still used coal or a mix of coal and oil.
If we look at 'peacetime' Japan's oil imports of 1936 (before the military took over the economy), we find Japan was importing fewer than 30 million barrels from the US. Yet even this total was inflated due to Japan's 1934 law requiring oil importers each to maintain a 6-month stockpile in Japan. (Japan built an oil stockpile exceeding 50 million barrels, estimated to be two years' civilian consumption, before 1940.) The average price of oil in 1936 was $1.09 per barrel (and ranged from $1.02 to $1.18 per barrel from 1937 to 1941), meaning that Japan's oil bill ranged from about $32 million to $40 million. (After refining a 42-gallon barrel produces up to 44 gallons of product due to expansion.) In 1938, Japan imported $60 million more in US cotton ($88.3 m) than US oil ($28.3 m). Could we claim that without cotton every industry in Japan would be devastated and the people starve? It certainly was more important to Japan's economy than oil. In 1940 it was only $3 million more as cotton imports fell (due to the military's economic decisions) and oil imports increased. Why? War beginning in '37 and the establishment of war mobilisation in '38. It was war and only war that required 1) more oil for the military and 2) cuts in civilian and industrial consumption. In 1938 civilian consumption of petrol dropped 60% due to rationing and continued to fall. Oil consumption was a military concern and not one of the entire nation. Japan was a multi-billion dollar economy, estimated to be worth from 9 to 10 billion US dollars in 1941. Its oil bill was negligible - about 0.45% of GDP if $40 million oil imports and GDP of $9 billion. Yet in the autumn of 1940 Tokyo tried to strong arm the Dutch East Indies to increase oil sales to 3.5 million tons (about 25.5 million barrels) and accept _payment in yen_ . The Dutch Government responded that 1) it was not an oil merchant; Tokyo needed to negotiate contracts with the oil companies, and 2) payment in Dutch guilders or US dollars was only acceptable. Japan's currency was not an international one.
BTW, Japan was sitting atop 16 billion barrels of oil at Daqing, Manchuria and didn't know it. In its misguided zeal for autarky it removed foreign oil companies' participation in the Manchurian market. These geologists and drillers were the experts Japan's military needed. 'We need expertise! Let's ban the experts!' (愚兵貧国).
Lastly, trade is a _privilege_ . One has no right to demand another sell it the goods it wants. Commerce is a mutually beneficial and _consensual_ action. If one party declines to participate, the other is not justified to bomb it. Did the US and Europe invade and conquer the Arab world's oil producers upon their oil embargo in 1973? No. One has to adapt. Find other suppliers (Peru, Mexico, and Venezuela). Develop and expand alternative sources of power (increase the size of reservoirs supplying hydroelectric power). Innovate (new technologies and energy saving processes). Stop bombing Chinese civilians (reducing the amount of resources allocated to manufacturing munitions and armaments and their use). The last one would have been the easiest and least expensive to implement and would have improved the lives not only of China's civilians but also Japan's.
Examining the claim that 'Japan would have been devasteted shortly, because every Japanese industry would have ruined and lots of Japanese would have been died out of starvation', I've shown that the claim is untrue. It's preposterous, actually. It was used by Japan's military (and later Japan's apologists such as you) as a pretext to rationalise the take over of the country and war on China (that had little known oil at that time). This lie cost Japan millions of lives and billions of dollars worth in misallocation of the taxpayers' money and destruction of the nation to acquire oil worth tens of millions. A dreadful return on investment.
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