Cause they didn't try to spread Christianity there. Also of interest, they were allowed to trade at Dejima because it was entirely man made (they weren't supposed to set foot on actual Japanese land). How crazy is it that Japan had a man made island in the 1630s!? Image: www.charterbus-limousine.com/img/tour/nagasaki/dejima.jpg
It amuses me how Tom dismissed the idea of using this video to teach kids because several years back I had a high school history teacher who actually used the History of Japan video as one of her classes through the year. The main focus of her class was the WWII period of time, so, since this video focuses on that period so much, it was great for her. I assume she's still using it to this day.
@@GermanFreakvb21 I remember having a few classes where that was the main topic, yes. The one I remember talking most in-depth about was the Rape of Nanking, since that's probably the most well known.
@@blackgold2589 I am still in college, yes, and no 1st year teacher probably could've gotten away with a full class devoted to a Bill Wurtz video. It was no time-honored tradition, but it was a class.
@@GermanFreakvb21 jesus christ man, its less than 10 minutes long are you going to also have a fit about how it didn't include any women or any gay people
the most insane thing about bill wurtz is that he edits on a laptop trackpad. he doesnt even use a mouse. so he does a shit ton of research makes funny sound things for pretty much every sentence and he edits on a fucking track pad. and the videos are masterpieces :)
My great uncle actually ruled over Dejima for a good few years, married a Japanese woman and brought back a son to the Netherlands. The son was eventually buried on a very prestigious cemetery
Fun fact, sometimes the Khans would ride for so long and run out of water, so they'd cut a small slit in the back of their horse's neck and drink their blood while riding
Was there any mention that Bill Wurtz is the creator? I could have missed it. He also made one called "history of the entire world, i guess." Check it out!
The first people to die because of a nuclear bomb were those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A couple of idiots died due to radiation exposure, but that happened later.
it's tough. for a lot of it they're not adding anything because it's a good video - you might as well just watch the original. And the parts they try and entertain because, you know, it's a livestream and streamers gotta stream, they interrupt and miss things. So you might as well watch the original. ~*~*livestreaming*~*~
According to genetic research more than 20,000s ago ancient people from southeast Asia passing Okinawa to Japan, and left way people landed the Korean peninsula. And right way people went to along Aleutian islands to north America and south America. Japanese islands were as well as land bridge. The evidence shows what Jomon culture is excavated in the Korean peninsula. In BC.10,000 Korean peninsula was Jomon territory. Japanese DNA and Korean DNA are completely different. Japanese people have enzyme of digestive enzyme of sea weed. But Korean people never have the enzyme as same as European and other race. Japanese is oceanic race. Korean is continent race.
one thing that confuses me about this that i haven't looked into the answer yet...why after the US forced open their borders and thus allowing the US, Russia, and Britain to do business did Britain then join with the faction of Japanese that rebelled and wanted the borders resealed? had they made a deal that they would be the new Japanese brokers instead of the Dutch under a new future closed-Japan?
The French had a lot of influence with the Shogunate, which means Britain became sidelined. So Britain sided with the opponents of the Shogunate, who were willing to compromise on their "throw out all the foreigneers"-belief in return for some sweet, sweet gunnery with which to attack Shogunate loyalists.
@@Papadragon18 randomly a year later i watch this video again and to my surprise i see that i left a comment and even better i got an answer to my question! thanks!
6:40 all i learned tom i that we the dutch gave the japanese it seems alot of books abouth technology and somehow i think this is why their weird now starting to think my country the netherlands is to blame for them having panty vending machines
I notice how it ignores russia in ww2. the japanese generals quite literally stated that the atomic bombs were nothing to worry about, and that it played no part in their decision to surrender.they didnt even know about the second one before they decided to surrender to america. they surrendered to america because Russia was preparing to invade and japan knew it couldnt win a war against russia. america was offering better terms of surrender, and japan also wanted to keep the image of an infallible emperor, so they used the atomic bombs as their reason, treating them like some new horrific weapon of war which forced them to surrender.
No generals said that. There were a group of generals who wanted to continue fighting, even if the Americans destroyed every Japanese city one-by-one. Because Japan was already defeated and incapable of ever winning the war before the nukes were dropped, and LONG before the Soviets declared war. Japan had even been running TO the Soviets to try and negotiate a peace because they thought they'd get better terms through them than through the Americans directly. The only role the Soviets declaring war would've played in Japan's surrender is it meant there was no longer that opportunity. Manchuria and Korea were useless by that point, since America had full control of the sea and air. It's the home islands that mattered and the Soviets were far less of a threat to them than the dudes who just spent the entire war invading islands.
@@Szolrykor Which is why the nukes are unforgivable in my opinion. You are right, Japan had already been negotiating peace. They were trying to avoid an unconditional surrender so they could keep their Emperor (something the US let them do anyway). The bombs in my opinion had very little to do with Japan's surrender. Think about it, Japan had pretty much already surrendered, but the US dropped nukes on them. Not just in a rural area or military location to demonstrate that they had such a weapon, but two, densely populated civilian areas. Which may means two things, both make plenty more sense than to avoid a land invasion. They nuked because 1) They had a complete disregard for foreign civilians. This idea is supported by basically the entirety of US war history to date. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, the US government has tried to hide a lot of the shit they do (and there is probably a lot they managed to hide), but we still know of some massacres in these wars that were ordered by command. They also often influence politics despite the population wanting otherwise. Vietnam for example, was invaded despite vast popularity for the communist North in the country as southern Vietnam had been influenced by the US for 20 years and was being ruled by an extremely corrupt leader who fucked the countries economy. Nuking Japan because they didn't give a shit about civilian women and children seems like a pretty fair assumption. And 2) To send a message to the Soviet Union. The nukes were powerful weapons and what better way to demonstrate their power to their only threat and communist threat, than by getting a nice big kill count. I doubt Japan had much to do with it at all, the US just wanted to scare the Soviets from putting up to much opposition to the US. Even if you disagree with those two points, the US state, an advocate for peace and democracy, has been the only state in the world to use such weapons on human life. In their use, the US targeted two civilian centers. Known to be inhabited by plenty of innocent women and children. For what reason? To win a war already won. Even if in some dramatic change of events a land invasion was necessary for their surrender, it is in my opinion that soldiers should give their lives for innocent people rather than let them die instead. A soldier signs up to kill, is trained to kill and knows the risks he is taking by going to war. Innocents should not be seen as worthy sacrifices for soldiers, their nationality should not matter.
@@pagatryx5451 Imagine being this wrong. The nukes were dropped because the Japanese were making the Americans pay dearly for every island they took back on the way to Japan, and it was estimated that the loss of American lives it would require to take the island in it's entirety was far too high. Thus the bombs. instead.
@@lizgayle14 Hell of a necro but Imagine being this basic. Well done, you recited back what the gov said. While I am not a conspiracy theorist, the government will act immorally if it needs to and will not convey this information straight to the public. Especially when they were afraid of communism growing in popularity and my belief is they did this to scare the USSR. Why would they need to invade every single island... It wasn't a video game. The Japanese were willing enough for peace. They feared an unconditional surrender due to them wanting to keep their Emperor but they knew the war was over. While one military camp did want to fight on, peace was easily within the realm of possibility. If the Americans really wanted peace, they would have got it but they were not pushing for peace diplomatically. Why may I ask, was a bomb required when everyone knew the war was over... It is well reported that the Americans did not try hard for peace through diplomatic means. They didn't even need to lose any American lives as the Soviet Union was declaring war on them and they knew that. The Japanese fleet was all but destroyed and intense fire bombing (which is also highly immoral) had taken a huge toll all across the Japanese industry. And how many American lives really needed to be lost when these islands lacked the supply production to keep the army going? Like I said, the US had complete rule of the seas. Stop any ships from getting to these islands and they would surrender without any resistance. People can't live (and definitely can't fight) without food. Even if nukes were a necessity (and they weren't) target a military facility. A port. An airfield. But targeting a high density city, twice, seems like they wanted to scare someone. Like I said before, the Japanese were already at a point of surrender. Without a navy and without allies they knew the war was lost and they knew that the bombings which had killed so many, were not gonna stop anytime soon. And if you think it was down to some samurai code, why would that stop after the nukes. The reason why peace was achieved at that point was due to the Japanese declaring an unconditional surrender. You would think that the Americans, if they really cared about ending the war without losing American lives, would, you know, solve the issue of peace diplomatically. Not by beating them into unconditional surrender. Any intelligent response or are you just gonna repeat the exact excuse the Americans made again? Cause I can kinda see a bit of holes in it personally. Or are you gonna just not read anything I said, skim over it, and make me repeat myself... Or are you gonna just write a short sentence that is just like a shitty insult or somethin? There is no 'good' guys in war. The Japanese weren't good but neither was America. America also has had a history of supporting dictators and corrupt presidents for the sake of stopping communism, just after they used their nukes. Often supporting in wars the side that the countries own people are fighting against. Vietnam being one, but there are others in Africa, South-America and Asia. Not really a stretch by any means to say they were already looking the way of the USSR before the war had officially ended. In fact, it is guaranteed.
@@chocoboasylum the flag of the german empire until 1918 was actually black, white and red. give that a little transparency on a blue background and it looks blue white and red
They declared war two years later. As for the Lusitania, Germany warned passengers they could be shot down. IMO, that boat was sent in on purpose to build support for the war Here's the ad that was ran: www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/newspaper-ad-from-the-german-embassy-in-washington-giving-news-photo/517725412
Unfortunately, this documentary (like most politically correct ones) goes along the "Japan surprise-attacked the poor and friendly US in the Pacific", when actually: 1. The US did everything they could in the years prior to provoke a Japanese attack. 2. They knew about the upcoming attack on Pearl Harbor WEEKS in advance, through intercepted japanese communications. They could even date it down to either the 6th or 7th of December. The president had all those reports on his table but decided not to forward them to the Pearl Harbor base because the public opinion was against joining the war. So they needed an artificially contructed "atrocity" to sway the public. Like the US have always done, before and after WWII. And like they continue to do today.
By "Provoked" you mean they stopped selling materials to make weapons to the Japanese because the US had been planning to join the Allies for a while, and it's pretty obvious the US knew about pearl harbor ahead of time which is why all the aircraft carriers were at sea at the time and the base was run by a skeleton crew, doesn't change the fact that Japan attacked America first in an attempt to neuter Americas naval force
@@fugyfruit By "provoked" I mean the following (with some historical context): The Spanish-American war of 1898 marked the beginning of a new US policy to further their area of interest away from just their own continent into the far east. They wanted to claim the remaining spanish colonies overseas and access to the asian markets. The spanisch Phillipines and Guam became US colonies which needed protection, so a large fleet was built around the base on Hawaii - which was simply annexed from Japan against their official protests (~ 40% japanese population at that time). Japan had their own ideas for expansion which clashed with the american hegemonial interests, who in turn supported the Chinese in their war with Japan in 1937 to protect their business interests. After losing to Germany in 1940, the new Vichy government of France allowed Japan multiple bases in Indochina, making the US lose a market there. The US counter with a large credit to Japans opponents and add trade restrictions, cutting them off from vital resources. Foreign minister Cordell deliberately demands simply impossible concessions, like giving up their gained territories in Manchuria, China and Indochina and stop any other expansionist attempts (while the US were of course free to pursuit this themselved as they pleased). Agreeing to those demands would virtually mean political and economical suicide for Japan, which damned those negotiations from the beginning as completely unrealistic. An assistant of Roosevelt later described the american political moves: "Roosevelts policy of forcing Japan into war through political and economical pressure while deliberately presenting the US fleet at Pearl Harbor as an incentive for a surprise attack was a complete success". Ten days before the japanese attack, war minister Henry Stimson wrote into his journal that he discussed with the president how to best force the Japanese to fire the first shot without endangering the US too much. ------------------------------------------------------------------- It was all about provoking Japan into "starting" a war that the US wanted, for geostrategic reasons, sacrificing ~2400 of their people by baiting the japanese fleet into a "surprise attack" that was well know in advance, but was not relayed so that the shock would make the american public change their mind and vote for joining the war. The american ethnologist Margaret Mead once wrote that it is deeply embedded in the american character to justify their own aggressions merely as a "reaction" to those of others, no matter how much the conflict has actually been sought after and wished for. Even small children would put coins on their shoulder and provocatively walk through the streets until someone accidentally bumped into them, knocking the coins down (= "to have a chip on one's shoulder"). With Pearl Harbor, "Japan came along and pushed the chip off our shoulder and left us free to fight". In 1941, president Roosevelt was placing chips all over the world. He knew what he did and calculated in the inevitable military conflicts. "It doesn't matter who fired the first shot. What matters is what happened in the days before the shot was fired", as an israeli official once said.
fugy fruit this is such a shit take. If they knew why wouldn’t they take their battleships along with their carriers? And 2000 casualties is a skeleton crew to you ??
@@xSuperiorManx What do you mean annexed from Japan against their protests? Hawaii requested American annexation itself. Also what do you mean by "impossible" it seems very clear that the US would want Japan to give the land it took from China back to China they had sided with China it would be a completely lost war if they agreed to a peace that allowed Japan to keep all the land they took no reasonable country would accept thosr terms. So America knew there'd be an attack on Pearl harbor a few days in advance, what should they have done? If America shot down the planes then America would seem to be the aggressor and the American public had been against the war the entire time, there's a solid chance that if that happened Roosevelt would get thrown out, so they did the logical option moved the most important assests out of the base and let Japan declare unlawful war on the US which would sway the American public to support a war against the Axis
You do know that the Japanese also attacked other countries And pushed back the allied navy stationed in the Pacific to Australia. And that was before pearl harbor
yes, it's biased towards "things relevant to Japan" and "Russia in WW2" is not relevant to Japan lmao the UK is because it's relevant to the US joining WW2, and the US is relevant because of Pearl Harbor, the nuclear bombs, them reforming the entire country...
Stalin basically just sent in millions of people until the germans ran out of ammo and then they took over central and eastern Europe and fucked it for 50 years till they lost a dick size contest with the US
No mention of the frequent visits from a British internet venture capitalist named Brindley.
XDDDD
Frequent visitor? I believe hes a permanent resident now
Is he the one who owns Just Chips?
@@Jojo-uc9or No, he's the one who was _thrown_ from Just Chips.
Like, bodily ejected
1:15 The missing reason Buddhism spread rapidly in Japan was because lords were offered a tax break for every temple they built in their lands.
Ok buddhist.
That's a pretty sweet deal.
Sounds like something from a Civ game.
Where there's money to be saved, there's a temple.
actually, a shit ton of temples.
Jesus christs there's a lot of temples.
The rice must flow :v
I like how the dutch are just kinda vibin when japan was like we are closed
"yeah that's cool, but what about _a little bit_ open?" -the dutch
Cause they didn't try to spread Christianity there.
Also of interest, they were allowed to trade at Dejima because it was entirely man made (they weren't supposed to set foot on actual Japanese land). How crazy is it that Japan had a man made island in the 1630s!?
Image: www.charterbus-limousine.com/img/tour/nagasaki/dejima.jpg
It amuses me how Tom dismissed the idea of using this video to teach kids because several years back I had a high school history teacher who actually used the History of Japan video as one of her classes through the year. The main focus of her class was the WWII period of time, so, since this video focuses on that period so much, it was great for her. I assume she's still using it to this day.
Hopefully your teacher mentioned the terrible war crimes Japan commited? This video just keeps quiet about them
@@GermanFreakvb21 I remember having a few classes where that was the main topic, yes. The one I remember talking most in-depth about was the Rape of Nanking, since that's probably the most well known.
Ryan Sheffler this video? It’s only 3 years old
@@blackgold2589 I am still in college, yes, and no 1st year teacher probably could've gotten away with a full class devoted to a Bill Wurtz video. It was no time-honored tradition, but it was a class.
@@GermanFreakvb21 jesus christ man, its less than 10 minutes long are you going to also have a fit about how it didn't include any women or any gay people
“How long does it take him to make these videos?”
Let’s just say that there’s a reason most of his videos are like a minute long
This video series has always HAD Big Barry Energy™️™️™️™️ it’s so much clearer now.
Now history of the entire world i guess please
Xeno is only taking the vod. He isn;t part of the yogs.
Well yes but no
the most insane thing about bill wurtz is that he edits on a laptop trackpad. he doesnt even use a mouse.
so he does a shit ton of research makes funny sound things for pretty much every sentence and he edits on a fucking track pad. and the videos are masterpieces :)
Did they watch the history of the entire world?
If so I would like to see
"and now I think back to 3 minutes ago and think "I dont remember anything about japan""
wait, its about japan? not ww1????
8:03 and the USA wasn't in the League of Nations. The nation who helped start the League of Nations in the first place. :V
7:00
yeah the only thing that I ever remember from this video is that there was a rich hipster named kukai at some point.
Endless tea. The end.
“Be good to teach kids”
*1 minute earlier*
A fuck ton
My great uncle actually ruled over Dejima for a good few years, married a Japanese woman and brought back a son to the Netherlands. The son was eventually buried on a very prestigious cemetery
Same
Who is this a refference to
i'm blown away
and thats how we got hentai
Plan for a video: play a video someone else made but with two guys commenting on how great the video is. Make $$$.
"I don't remember anything about fucking Japan....It's so fast!"
Yes. Fucking Japan happened fast. USA 2020
Too bad it wasn't the history of the entire world
i guess
Mongols.
Horse Riding Skill: 100
Sailing Skill: 10
@@Glitchy456 Archery would be 100. So not every other skill.
Fun fact, sometimes the Khans would ride for so long and run out of water, so they'd cut a small slit in the back of their horse's neck and drink their blood while riding
@@RubelliteFae That's f*cking metal as f*ck dude!
Less Opium than I expected
I read it as Tom & Jerry watch History of Japan first lol
Oda Nobunaga was a tactical genius of his era he was also one of the first shogun to hire Shinobi
Was there any mention that Bill Wurtz is the creator? I could have missed it. He also made one called "history of the entire world, i guess." Check it out!
It's one of the most watched videos on youtube, it doesn't need a mention.
@@thaddeusbeadle6546 You always gotta' cite your sources. You never know who might have missed the video during its high point.
rogue grandma they talk about him at the end of the video.
if you play Shogun 2 you know a lot of this
*laughs in oda*
I was thinking about Europa Universalis 4
History of the world took over a year
o7 to all the failed scientists blowing themselves up trying to make a nuke
The first people to die because of a nuclear bomb were those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A couple of idiots died due to radiation exposure, but that happened later.
They missed so many good parts by talking over them, like the gunboats part.
it's tough. for a lot of it they're not adding anything because it's a good video - you might as well just watch the original. And the parts they try and entertain because, you know, it's a livestream and streamers gotta stream, they interrupt and miss things. So you might as well watch the original.
~*~*livestreaming*~*~
According to genetic research more than 20,000s ago ancient people from southeast Asia passing Okinawa to Japan, and left way people landed the Korean peninsula. And right way people went to along Aleutian islands to north America and south America. Japanese islands were as well as land bridge. The evidence shows what Jomon culture is excavated in the Korean peninsula. In BC.10,000 Korean peninsula was Jomon territory. Japanese DNA and Korean DNA are completely different. Japanese people have enzyme of digestive enzyme of sea weed. But Korean people never have the enzyme as same as European and other race. Japanese is oceanic race. Korean is continent race.
昆布おいしいよ～
one thing that confuses me about this that i haven't looked into the answer yet...why after the US forced open their borders and thus allowing the US, Russia, and Britain to do business did Britain then join with the faction of Japanese that rebelled and wanted the borders resealed? had they made a deal that they would be the new Japanese brokers instead of the Dutch under a new future closed-Japan?
The French had a lot of influence with the Shogunate, which means Britain became sidelined. So Britain sided with the opponents of the Shogunate, who were willing to compromise on their "throw out all the foreigneers"-belief in return for some sweet, sweet gunnery with which to attack Shogunate loyalists.
@@Papadragon18 randomly a year later i watch this video again and to my surprise i see that i left a comment and even better i got an answer to my question! thanks!
@@dizzlebizzle8424 No problems, glad to help. :)
Hentai was born from when Japan had porn laws and people were like what about tentacles
The dutch are responsible for anime!
I, also, had no idea that Japan was actually in the League of Nations.
0/10 history of japan didn't mention hentai
6:40 all i learned tom i that we the dutch gave the japanese it seems alot of books abouth technology and somehow i think this is why their weird now starting to think my country the netherlands is to blame for them having panty vending machines
I notice how it ignores russia in ww2. the japanese generals quite literally stated that the atomic bombs were nothing to worry about, and that it played no part in their decision to surrender.they didnt even know about the second one before they decided to surrender to america. they surrendered to america because Russia was preparing to invade and japan knew it couldnt win a war against russia. america was offering better terms of surrender, and japan also wanted to keep the image of an infallible emperor, so they used the atomic bombs as their reason, treating them like some new horrific weapon of war which forced them to surrender.
To be clear:
the atomic bombs were and is a horrific weapon of war.
No generals said that. There were a group of generals who wanted to continue fighting, even if the Americans destroyed every Japanese city one-by-one. Because Japan was already defeated and incapable of ever winning the war before the nukes were dropped, and LONG before the Soviets declared war. Japan had even been running TO the Soviets to try and negotiate a peace because they thought they'd get better terms through them than through the Americans directly. The only role the Soviets declaring war would've played in Japan's surrender is it meant there was no longer that opportunity. Manchuria and Korea were useless by that point, since America had full control of the sea and air. It's the home islands that mattered and the Soviets were far less of a threat to them than the dudes who just spent the entire war invading islands.
@@Szolrykor Which is why the nukes are unforgivable in my opinion. You are right, Japan had already been negotiating peace. They were trying to avoid an unconditional surrender so they could keep their Emperor (something the US let them do anyway). The bombs in my opinion had very little to do with Japan's surrender. Think about it, Japan had pretty much already surrendered, but the US dropped nukes on them. Not just in a rural area or military location to demonstrate that they had such a weapon, but two, densely populated civilian areas. Which may means two things, both make plenty more sense than to avoid a land invasion.
They nuked because 1) They had a complete disregard for foreign civilians. This idea is supported by basically the entirety of US war history to date. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, the US government has tried to hide a lot of the shit they do (and there is probably a lot they managed to hide), but we still know of some massacres in these wars that were ordered by command. They also often influence politics despite the population wanting otherwise. Vietnam for example, was invaded despite vast popularity for the communist North in the country as southern Vietnam had been influenced by the US for 20 years and was being ruled by an extremely corrupt leader who fucked the countries economy. Nuking Japan because they didn't give a shit about civilian women and children seems like a pretty fair assumption.
And 2) To send a message to the Soviet Union. The nukes were powerful weapons and what better way to demonstrate their power to their only threat and communist threat, than by getting a nice big kill count. I doubt Japan had much to do with it at all, the US just wanted to scare the Soviets from putting up to much opposition to the US.
Even if you disagree with those two points, the US state, an advocate for peace and democracy, has been the only state in the world to use such weapons on human life. In their use, the US targeted two civilian centers. Known to be inhabited by plenty of innocent women and children. For what reason? To win a war already won. Even if in some dramatic change of events a land invasion was necessary for their surrender, it is in my opinion that soldiers should give their lives for innocent people rather than let them die instead. A soldier signs up to kill, is trained to kill and knows the risks he is taking by going to war. Innocents should not be seen as worthy sacrifices for soldiers, their nationality should not matter.
@@pagatryx5451 Imagine being this wrong. The nukes were dropped because the Japanese were making the Americans pay dearly for every island they took back on the way to Japan, and it was estimated that the loss of American lives it would require to take the island in it's entirety was far too high. Thus the bombs. instead.
@@lizgayle14 Hell of a necro but Imagine being this basic. Well done, you recited back what the gov said. While I am not a conspiracy theorist, the government will act immorally if it needs to and will not convey this information straight to the public. Especially when they were afraid of communism growing in popularity and my belief is they did this to scare the USSR. Why would they need to invade every single island... It wasn't a video game. The Japanese were willing enough for peace. They feared an unconditional surrender due to them wanting to keep their Emperor but they knew the war was over. While one military camp did want to fight on, peace was easily within the realm of possibility.
If the Americans really wanted peace, they would have got it but they were not pushing for peace diplomatically. Why may I ask, was a bomb required when everyone knew the war was over... It is well reported that the Americans did not try hard for peace through diplomatic means. They didn't even need to lose any American lives as the Soviet Union was declaring war on them and they knew that. The Japanese fleet was all but destroyed and intense fire bombing (which is also highly immoral) had taken a huge toll all across the Japanese industry. And how many American lives really needed to be lost when these islands lacked the supply production to keep the army going? Like I said, the US had complete rule of the seas. Stop any ships from getting to these islands and they would surrender without any resistance. People can't live (and definitely can't fight) without food. Even if nukes were a necessity (and they weren't) target a military facility. A port. An airfield. But targeting a high density city, twice, seems like they wanted to scare someone. Like I said before, the Japanese were already at a point of surrender. Without a navy and without allies they knew the war was lost and they knew that the bombings which had killed so many, were not gonna stop anytime soon. And if you think it was down to some samurai code, why would that stop after the nukes. The reason why peace was achieved at that point was due to the Japanese declaring an unconditional surrender. You would think that the Americans, if they really cared about ending the war without losing American lives, would, you know, solve the issue of peace diplomatically. Not by beating them into unconditional surrender.
Any intelligent response or are you just gonna repeat the exact excuse the Americans made again? Cause I can kinda see a bit of holes in it personally. Or are you gonna just not read anything I said, skim over it, and make me repeat myself... Or are you gonna just write a short sentence that is just like a shitty insult or somethin? There is no 'good' guys in war. The Japanese weren't good but neither was America. America also has had a history of supporting dictators and corrupt presidents for the sake of stopping communism, just after they used their nukes. Often supporting in wars the side that the countries own people are fighting against. Vietnam being one, but there are others in Africa, South-America and Asia. Not really a stretch by any means to say they were already looking the way of the USSR before the war had officially ended. In fact, it is guaranteed.
6:33 That's not the German flag. But it is the Civil flag of Schleswig-Holstein
maybe the top is blue because of the transparency or sth
Well it's blue, white and red whereas the German flag is black, red and yellow
@@chocoboasylum the flag of the german empire until 1918 was actually black, white and red. give that a little transparency on a blue background and it looks blue white and red
@@That__Guy yup. if you pause it as it moves over the map of Europe is clearly black again
i clicked because i read Tom & JERRY
Ha
The part you're waiting for is 9:06
So the Japaneese are really chineese who were "left behind".
Novaximus You’d know about being left behind wouldn’t you, with spelling like that...
@@stormcloudsabound I suppose this would make you a Grammar "Nazi"
No. This is an overview. Read books for the history
Search up Y chromosome haplotypes for the genetics
we’re watching two guys watch a video while the government watches us while the government is being watched by aliens
STOP PAUSING!!!!
Alexander Greig i mean same, but you’re free to watch the original without pausinh
"And that's the history of anime, that's how they made anime Tom!"
That's why they shouldn't have stopped at 2 bombs @_@
So did the U.S. really make anime then?
In a way... We should thank the Atom Bombs for Hentai...
none's gonna mention how the man hasn't uploaded in 9 months?
So Americans made anime
Madcat ripoff?
actually germany didn't declare war, they accidently shot down a civilian boat thinking it wasn't American
and the bombs where german by origin but America just used their (germany) scientist and intelligence to make two
They declared war two years later. As for the Lusitania, Germany warned passengers they could be shot down. IMO, that boat was sent in on purpose to build support for the war
Here's the ad that was ran: www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/newspaper-ad-from-the-german-embassy-in-washington-giving-news-photo/517725412
Unfortunately, this documentary (like most politically correct ones) goes along the "Japan surprise-attacked the poor and friendly US in the Pacific", when actually:
1. The US did everything they could in the years prior to provoke a Japanese attack.
2. They knew about the upcoming attack on Pearl Harbor WEEKS in advance, through intercepted japanese communications. They could even date it down to either the 6th or 7th of December. The president had all those reports on his table but decided not to forward them to the Pearl Harbor base because the public opinion was against joining the war. So they needed an artificially contructed "atrocity" to sway the public. Like the US have always done, before and after WWII. And like they continue to do today.
By "Provoked" you mean they stopped selling materials to make weapons to the Japanese because the US had been planning to join the Allies for a while, and it's pretty obvious the US knew about pearl harbor ahead of time which is why all the aircraft carriers were at sea at the time and the base was run by a skeleton crew, doesn't change the fact that Japan attacked America first in an attempt to neuter Americas naval force
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By "provoked" I mean the following (with some historical context):
The Spanish-American war of 1898 marked the beginning of a new US policy to further their area of interest away from just their own continent into the far east. They wanted to claim the remaining spanish colonies overseas and access to the asian markets. The spanisch Phillipines and Guam became US colonies which needed protection, so a large fleet was built around the base on Hawaii - which was simply annexed from Japan against their official protests (~ 40% japanese population at that time).
Japan had their own ideas for expansion which clashed with the american hegemonial interests, who in turn supported the Chinese in their war with Japan in 1937 to protect their business interests.
After losing to Germany in 1940, the new Vichy government of France allowed Japan multiple bases in Indochina, making the US lose a market there.
The US counter with a large credit to Japans opponents and add trade restrictions, cutting them off from vital resources. Foreign minister Cordell deliberately demands simply impossible concessions, like giving up their gained territories in Manchuria, China and Indochina and stop any other expansionist attempts (while the US were of course free to pursuit this themselved as they pleased).
Agreeing to those demands would virtually mean political and economical suicide for Japan, which damned those negotiations from the beginning as completely unrealistic.
An assistant of Roosevelt later described the american political moves:
"Roosevelts policy of forcing Japan into war through political and economical pressure while deliberately presenting the US fleet at Pearl Harbor as an incentive for a surprise attack was a complete success".
Ten days before the japanese attack, war minister Henry Stimson wrote into his journal that he discussed with the president how to best force the Japanese to fire the first shot without endangering the US too much.
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It was all about provoking Japan into "starting" a war that the US wanted, for geostrategic reasons, sacrificing ~2400 of their people by baiting the japanese fleet into a "surprise attack" that was well know in advance, but was not relayed so that the shock would make the american public change their mind and vote for joining the war.
The american ethnologist Margaret Mead once wrote that it is deeply embedded in the american character to justify their own aggressions merely as a "reaction" to those of others, no matter how much the conflict has actually been sought after and wished for. Even small children would put coins on their shoulder and provocatively walk through the streets until someone accidentally bumped into them, knocking the coins down (= "to have a chip on one's shoulder").
With Pearl Harbor, "Japan came along and pushed the chip off our shoulder and left us free to fight".
In 1941, president Roosevelt was placing chips all over the world. He knew what he did and calculated in the inevitable military conflicts.
"It doesn't matter who fired the first shot. What matters is what happened in the days before the shot was fired", as an israeli official once said.
fugy fruit this is such a shit take. If they knew why wouldn’t they take their battleships along with their carriers? And 2000 casualties is a skeleton crew to you ??
@@xSuperiorManx What do you mean annexed from Japan against their protests? Hawaii requested American annexation itself. Also what do you mean by "impossible" it seems very clear that the US would want Japan to give the land it took from China back to China they had sided with China it would be a completely lost war if they agreed to a peace that allowed Japan to keep all the land they took no reasonable country would accept thosr terms. So America knew there'd be an attack on Pearl harbor a few days in advance, what should they have done? If America shot down the planes then America would seem to be the aggressor and the American public had been against the war the entire time, there's a solid chance that if that happened Roosevelt would get thrown out, so they did the logical option moved the most important assests out of the base and let Japan declare unlawful war on the US which would sway the American public to support a war against the Axis
You do know that the Japanese also attacked other countries And pushed back the allied navy stationed in the Pacific to Australia. And that was before pearl harbor
Hahaha! Talking about WW2 and not even mentioning USSR. What a biased history lesson.
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Russia's role is always downplayed. They did a LOT for us in WW2.
yes, it's biased towards "things relevant to Japan" and "Russia in WW2" is not relevant to Japan lmao
the UK is because it's relevant to the US joining WW2, and the US is relevant because of Pearl Harbor, the nuclear bombs, them reforming the entire country...
@@daniellee4003 russia invaded manchuria in ww2 after germany was dealt with i'm fairly certain
Stalin basically just sent in millions of people until the germans ran out of ammo and then they took over central and eastern Europe and fucked it for 50 years till they lost a dick size contest with the US
Kind of annoying tbh