I do have a question: I know it's been 2 years since release, but do you still have the sources for the graphs between 11:08 and 11:34? Thank you! Great video!

@@LEA_TV www.grips.ac.jp/teacher/oono/hp/lecture_J/lec07.htm and www.jei.org/Restricted/JEIR00/0003f.html

@@ThePacificWarChannel NO WAY. Thank you!

Ty ty, I hope to grow more! There is a ton of stuff I am waiting to do when I get a bigger audience =)

This is part of a series on asia during WW1. Check out the episode on "China during WW1" for the Shandong problem, Twenty-One Demands and there is a May fourth episode to further expand upon it

Haha...the very question I have been pestering all my friends over. I will still be covering it, but quite differently than KnG does (event by event instead of week by week). I also would like to venture more so in historic film reviews, gaming etc. Also KnG chose to do 1941-1945 week by week and I want to emphasize 1937-1941 for my own channel.

@@ThePacificWarChannel Thanks for replying, definitely interested to see it.

Thank you so much, I will look into it, I wanted to reach 10k subs before I made such ventures!

It was thoroughly discussed amongst the Japanese war planners. The crux of it all came down to the Philippines. To simply go around the Philippines and hit the Dutch was deemed an impossibility because the assumption was, once the war began that the US Pacific fleet at a minimum would consolidate and become a threat right in Japans backyard. The British holdings were seen as triggers for America to join the war and they were necessary to invade in order to take the Dutch East Indies. From their viewpoint at the time it was not possible to just hit the Dutch and or British holdings, had to take everything in the South Pacific had develop a defensive perimeter so the IJN could transport resources back to home islands.

@@ThePacificWarChannel Makes sense. How sensible do you think the planners were about making these assumptions? It seems like every Allied power was trying their hardest to avoid direct war and the Axis powers forced their hand through overt actions.

@@devofanj9452 The more you look at it from the side of FDR or Churchill, they did everything possible to push the Japanese to make the first move against them. Even the Dutch played their own hand taking advice from Britain/USA on how to deal with Japan. Cause if you think about it, the Japanese tried to strike a deal with the Dutch to purchase oil which would have "solved" everything. It was always about the China war, Japan simply needed resources to continue it. If the Dutch sold the necessary amount of Oil to Japan it would have gone very differently, but Britain/USA made sure that would not happen,

@@ThePacificWarChannel That's a pretty enlightening reply, thanks. So any alternate way for Japan that involved a victory for them would require that the Dutch(or the British) sell them as much resources as they needed to continue the China war effectively? I don't see any other power in the region that would give them those resources, America was already supplying them for long during the China war and only cut their supply when they invaded northern Indochina.

The French delegate was shocked when Wilson overturned it reminding him it was a strong majority vote. Australia was the most adamant about opposing it cause of the White Australia Policy. Italy strongly supported it. Wilson's move pretty much alleviated everyone from the situation so I doubt the other delegates cared or made much fuss. It should be noted, the Japanese privately talked to the Australian delegate and convinced him to change his vote, but Wilson in the end stopped it.