Why did Japan Attack Germany in World War 1?

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Why did Japan Attack Germany in World War 1?

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Why did Japan Attack Germany in World War 1?
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@TetsuShima 2 ай бұрын

Imagine old kaiser Willy's reaction in exile when he knew Corporal Adolf of his old army turned his enemies the japaneses into allies 😅

@kiterjamon 2 ай бұрын

Yes, but how about Prime Minister Churchill when he heard of the fall of Singapore ....smart move from British Empire to ally itself with Imperial Japan.... smart indeed 😂

@Michael.96 2 ай бұрын

Even more so because Wilhelm II really despised (East) Asians.

@MiguelLopez-yc2rh 2 ай бұрын

I think the video should have mentioned the huge pressure Japan faced by Germany, Russia and France after the first sino japanese war of 1895. This Triple Intervention threatened japanese with war if they didnt lower their demands and returned Liaodong Peninsula to the chinese. This diplomatic humilliation was one of the causes of the russo-japanese war a few years later.

@grandadmiralzaarin4962 2 ай бұрын

The Chinese map needs the name changed, the Qing Dynasty had already fallen before WWI, China was in the grip of the Warlord Era at this point.

@AzrenKaleBolles-Pohja 2 ай бұрын

Japan did not have 100 Battleships upon entering World War 1, It had 113 warships in total and 12 of them were Dreadnoughts (Later the Term would be changed to Battleships).

@Samuelhovda Ай бұрын

There were also pre dreadnought battleships.

@AzrenKaleBolles-Pohja Ай бұрын

@@Samuelhovda Yes, but when people hear the word Battleship they think of the Montana-Class (like Iowa), or Bismarck, or George V?. Pre-Dreadnought "Battleships" where more of an "Iron Clad" Type of ship.

@Samuelhovda Ай бұрын

@@AzrenKaleBolles-Pohja although I agree with you, the definision in the video is of both pre- and dreadnought battelships. The dreadnoughts had only exicted for 9 years after all and countries hadnt been producing them for more than a few years.

@AzrenKaleBolles-Pohja Ай бұрын

@@Samuelhovda True, But the Video states that Japan entered the War with 100 Battleships. Which is not True. I'm sure they meant Warships but I just wanted to Correct them.

@Samuelhovda Ай бұрын

@@AzrenKaleBolles-Pohja I understand and agree with you.

@faenethlorhalien 2 ай бұрын

Why? Germany: At war Japan: "It's free real estate".

@balabanasireti 2 ай бұрын

Oof, so unoriginal

@Whiterun_Gaurd 2 ай бұрын

This is about to happen again within the next 5 years considering all those countries at the brink of war

@pe_w 2 ай бұрын

blawg is stuck in 2015

@xWarLegendx 2 ай бұрын

Old joke

@ragnarulrichson778 2 ай бұрын

Sadly this was the Japanese policy for warmaking and empire growth for half a century. Surreptitiously attacking neighbors who were militarily encumbered or separated by a significant distance.

@dhawthorne1634 2 ай бұрын

The German soldiers stationed in China wanted beer to drink so they built a brewery in Qingdao and started producing a Munich lager. Once China managed to retake the area, the government took over the brewery and continued to brew the same centuries-old recipe, just under a new name; Tsingtao.

@nbenicewicz 2 ай бұрын

Why wasn’t the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 mentioned?

@robertmiller3529 2 ай бұрын

I was wondering the same thing

@louisthe15th92 2 ай бұрын

because its not relevant to the topic of the video

@robertmiller3529 2 ай бұрын

@louisthe15th92 and the first sino-japanese war was?

@turtlez1910 2 ай бұрын

because the video says why did japan attack germany IN WW1

@louisthe15th92 2 ай бұрын

@@robertmiller3529 i never said this

@dragosstanciu9866 2 ай бұрын

In hindsight it would have been better for Japan to stay out of WW1. The victory in that war encouraged the militaristic mindset that will lead to disaster later.

@joshfeehan6929 2 ай бұрын

Nope it was the denial of the racial equality at the conference immediately following ww1.

@roxylius7550 2 ай бұрын

They were political assassination of civilians government left and right during boshin war and subsequent decades. They never had a chance to begin with.

@joshfeehan6929 2 ай бұрын

My comment miraculously deleted itself😂the reason Japan behaved the way it did in later decades was due to the blatant disrespect by the entente especially in racial equality.

@grandadmiralzaarin4962 2 ай бұрын

You forget that Japan had already had victories in Imperialism in the Russo Japanese and Sino Japanese War. A much greater impact on Japanese militarism becoming so extreme was the collapse of the Moderates due to the Stock Market Crash of 1929(the same event that discredited the moderates in Weimar Germany and empowered the rhetoric of the Nazis) combined with the hypocrisy of the Western Powers pursuing their own colonial ambitions while constraining Japan's.

@Thomas_Name 2 ай бұрын

Google's selective censorship strikes again.@@joshfeehan6929

@bloodboughtsaint777 2 ай бұрын

It's just me nit-picking, but... at the beginning of the video we see little explosions at the borders between two countries, signifying the many fronts of the conflict throughout Europe. I saw 2 explosions along the border with Germany and the Netherlands. Germany purposefully chose not to invade the Netherlands. The original Schlieffen Plan did include an invasion of the Netherlands, but the plan was modified to spare the Netherlands. The purpose was due to the fact that the German navy was not likely to dominate the British navy. Therefore, by keeping a neutral nation near-by, Germany could still import food and other essentials for survival through the Netherlands without total fear of being blockaded.

@Barwasser 2 ай бұрын

Also Kaiser Wilhelm II was friends with the Dutch King and didn't want to attack him. These kind of things were still relevant at the time...

@shakeelali20 2 ай бұрын

@@Barwasser It didn't seem to stop the Royal cousins fighting with each other though.

@Barwasser 2 ай бұрын

@@shakeelali20 true. I think beating up Russia before they could finish their army reform was the primary reason, German high command wanted to join the war in the first place. Still there are letters between Wilhelm and Nickolas indicating that they personally wanted to avoid war. WWI was a tragedy through and through.

@shakeelali20 2 ай бұрын

@@Barwasser Agreed. Arguably one of the costliest and yet most pointless European wars. I find the correspondence between Nick, Willy and Georgie boy fascinating as they genuinely seemed to care for each other. Caring for their people, maybe not so much.

@MCorpReview 2 ай бұрын

Smart $ informative😮

@besteffortint 2 ай бұрын

Insert “It’s free Real Estate 😏” meme

@--Dani 2 ай бұрын

100 battleships? Um no…the RN only had 25-30 during WW1.

@paulmerring1607 Ай бұрын

I read 36

@nigelchung86 2 ай бұрын

There is no forever friends and no forever foes. This is what history taught me

@thanhhoangnguyen4754 2 ай бұрын

Well they didn’t send their army to help their friend in the trenches of Western Front or the Middle East front do they?

@nigelchung86 2 ай бұрын

@@thanhhoangnguyen4754 not too sure about which war you referring to. But as long as the benefits outweigh the cons I think they will consider.

@thanhhoangnguyen4754 2 ай бұрын

@@nigelchung86 It WW1 here. And you right about that. They wouldn't waste their troop in Western Theater of Europe or the Middle East. The cost too high. But they willing to send a massive army just to help the White Army during Russia Red Revolution although with different intentions

@bigenglishmonkey 2 ай бұрын

Laughs in Aliança Luso-Inglesa

@iche9373 2 ай бұрын

You’re generalizing

@cyrus6550 2 ай бұрын

One thing I took notice of was that Korea was drawn as a separate entity when it was annexed in the summer of 1910.

@Open__56 2 ай бұрын

Cuz Japan wanted more land and Germany couldn't do Anything about it.

@kacangajaib1563 2 ай бұрын

Post-Induatrialization Japan trying to take on the Two Big Players in the Region is wild

@TetsuShima 2 ай бұрын

Speaking of Kaiser Wilhem, his portrayal by Barry Foster in the 1974 miniseries "Fall of Eagles" is the best the kaiser ever got. It was great the way the show humanized him from his early life to his abdication in 1918

@Thomas_Name 2 ай бұрын

Foster's Wilhelm is pretty amazing.

@depekthegreat359 2 ай бұрын

Wow!!!This is a facinating story which I have heard before and thanks for the details of this history,good friend!!!🏋️‍♂️

@kennkoala 2 ай бұрын

Much of this is new to me. I knew Japan was industrialising and militarising but had never heard of them attacking German holdings anywhere. The League of Nations gave German New Guinea and others to Australia to administer but in my history classes nothing was said about Japan attacking anything.

@thanhhoangnguyen4754 2 ай бұрын

@@kennkoala I surprise you didn’t know it considering that Japanese still have alliance with the British. Now of course it only logic to help the British and gain some free territory.

@watheverhappenedhappened 2 ай бұрын

THE CONCLUSION OF THE VIDEO . . . Why not?? ‏‪

@user-vz1wk1oi4s 2 ай бұрын

Never knew the Anglo Japanese alliance extended that far in protecting settler colonies I guess the whole narrative of Japan saving Asia from western powers was just a cover for their own colonial ambitions 😅

@thanhhoangnguyen4754 2 ай бұрын

I mean they see advantage here. Especially when you know the fact they don’t even send troop to Europe and Middle East is enough.

@user-vz1wk1oi4s 2 ай бұрын

@@thanhhoangnguyen4754 explain please i dont understand

@seanhenderson7864 2 ай бұрын

You need to check your facts - the map you showed for the Marshall and Caroline Islands was actually German New Guinea. The Japanese did not get that far > German New Guinea and the surrounding islands were taken by Australia. Nauru was also taken by Australia. Furthermore, China was no longer the Qing Dynasty > that ended in 1912. China was the Republic of China throughout World War I. People trust videos like this, so make sure you are correct.

@magnusbuckus3266 2 ай бұрын

The explosion on the German-Netherlands border was really bothering my ocd.

@user-io5sf7rt5e 2 ай бұрын

إذا قمت عمل بتصنيف أقوي 20 جيش علي مر التاريخ لن أضع اليابان في القائمة لأن معظم أنتصرتها كانت عند محربتها لدول تعاني من جبهات حرب مختلفة و مستنزفة منها ثم تأتي اليابان لتحارب في أسهل جه و قد قامت بتلك الحركة ضد ألمانيا و بعدها بريطانيا و غيرها كهولندا و روسيا

@Knot_Sean 3 күн бұрын

Now knowing and understanding how much the Japanese helped the Entente during the Great War really makes me understand just how betrayed the Japanese felt by the Americans and there allies after the war and during the 1920-30 leading up just before WWII.

@michaelthomas5433 2 ай бұрын

Imperial Japan, the nation that took the concept of "YOINK!" a bit too much to heart.

@SpeedyYT69 2 ай бұрын

I don't get why Germany allied Japan in WW2 after all this

@Frilleon 2 ай бұрын

Because they were far enough apart that the alliance just added another threat the rest of the world had to deal with. Imagine if the USA didn’t fight the Japanese…Germany would have basically been alone and destroyed even faster. Germany needed another strong ally if they wanted a chance to win anything. They faced too many foes on too many fronts. They were destined to run out of resources no matter how well they did

@Frilleon 2 ай бұрын

Lastly, in war all allies are potentially good to have even if you’re both faking it. There’s no such thing as forever allies or forever enemies

@alexanderlee5669 2 ай бұрын

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

@micahistory 2 ай бұрын

great video

@kribstek1155 2 ай бұрын

Just a casual watch reveals how poorly researched this video is. Overall, videos on this channel are just much less insightful than those of other history channels on this platform. Mislabeled map: - Corsica isn't labeled in blue (France) - Shetland isn't labeled in red (Britain) - ❌Quingdao ✔Qingdao - ❌Jihan ✔Jinan - ❌Qing ✔Republic of China (after the 1911 revolution) How could you mislabel China's regime when most of the events here happened IN CHINA ?? You made a whole video about events in Qingdao, China -- with a map where both Qingdao & China are labeled wrong. You people called this "a lot of effort" -- seriously?? Just to add, the Chinese Republic's map should look quite different from the Qing Empire: after 1911, some territories proclaimed "independence" (Mongolia & Tibet), some were annexed (Tuva by Russia) & the rest of China was divided among warlords - - an intricate situation that this video failed to touch upon by even the slightest -- despite it being about an event HAPPENED IN CHINA. Other weird & apparent omissions: - the 1905 Russo-Japanese War is never mentioned, despite mentioning the preceding 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance - the fact that Britain also has its own leased territory in Shangdong province -- the port of Weihaiwei (north of Qingdao)

@anuragtumane5227 Ай бұрын

Japan attacking Germany would signify its stance in the war.

@Sadoyasturadoglu 2 ай бұрын

What if Japan had joined the Central Powers?

@user-yy9hk9od9u 2 ай бұрын

It was easy pickings for Japan to take over German colonies at the time.

@thanhhoangnguyen4754 2 ай бұрын

Plus the Great Power is weakening themselves up in this war while they sit and do nothing. I mean how horrible and shame that they couldn’t send their troops to Europe or the Middle East to help the British. But they willing to send a massive army to help the White army in Siberia.

@davidjones535 2 ай бұрын

Germany didnt start the war the the black hands in Serbia and the Serbian Government did against Austria and Russia could not mind its own business !

@Matthew_Pinto-ai 2 ай бұрын

I believe that after 4 years of a meaningless and ruthless war, nobody remembered what exactly that war had begun for, really. France took the chance that the German was the ones who requested the armistice and put all the blame onto Germany.

@Original_meme_find 2 ай бұрын

It was SSSR not Russia .

@Jack-mr6ty Ай бұрын

Germany ; why attack me Japan; I need land Germany; well

@Barwasser 2 ай бұрын

My answer before watching the video: "It's free real estate"

@MasteIsIllmatic 2 ай бұрын

Never been so early to a video i just saw a race or tribal war start from scratch haha…

@Thomas_Name 2 ай бұрын

😂

@micahistory 2 ай бұрын

ironic given their alliance just 2 decades later

@johnwalsh4857 12 күн бұрын

well my take on it is that a Allied(mainly USA and USSR but with small contributions from the British and French) invade and conquer the Japanese home islands by like 1947. The Soviets would have conquered all of the Sakhalin, Kuriles and Hokkaido islands while the USA would take all of Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku. Not surprised the campaign would have been extremely brutal for all sides as the Japanese would fight to the death and both sides would be using chemical weapons, and the US would be using multiple atomic weapons. The Soviets would have deported all the surviving Japanese civilians in their conquered areas as they did in OTL to the USA zone of control. and repopulate these areas with Russians, in fact Hokkaido main northern Japanese island was sparsely populated at the time of invasion of its population would have been drastically reduced. The USA would have been responsible for literally all the rebuilding of its controlled Japanese territories and would have executed a bit more Japanese war criminals than in OTL. Since many Japanese gov officials were probably killed during the invasion or executed later, the post war Japanese gov would have made up mostly of USA and Soviet military and civlian personel. The Soviets annex its conquered Japanese areas in the USSR . the USA would designate its occupied areas of Japan as administered territories which is a nice term for colony, essentially USA controlled areas of Japan becomes a USA colony. and would not be given independence due to the hundreds of thousands of American casualties just taking Japan. I can see the USA immigrating hundreds of thousands of Americans from the mainland to Japan. as Japan rebuilds. and settling down so Japan by the 70s has a sizable American minority. the Japanese population post war is reduced from its pre war levels by around 50 percent noting millions of Japanese died during the conquest of Japan 1945 to 1948, and probably a million or so more in the brutal pacification campaigns of the late 40s and 50s. (note Emperor dies during the invasion of Japan). USA occupied Japan gets completely Americanized. so by 2000 Japan(Okinawa, Kyushu Honshu and Shikoku) becomes the 51st state of the USA. where English is the main language spoken followed by Japanese. Japan is one of the richest states in the USA and rivals the GDP of the states of Texas and California. Meanwhile the invasion of Japan by the Allies has a major effect on the rest of Asia, KMT and CCP start fighitng each other in a major way starting 1946 , even with the Japanese still controlling eastern China. without USA aid(as the USA is focused on the invasion and conquest of Japan), the CCP defeats the KMT by 1949. as in OTL what replaces USA aid however is the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in Eastern China and Formosa whose Japanese military govs surrender to the Allies in 1947 however many Japanese troops join the KMT to fight the CCP. Chiang and the KMT remnants flee to Formosa now being called Taiwan. All of Korea is overrun by the Soviets by 1946. and the new Korean country is headed by Soviet puppet Kim Il Sung.

@kaisermuto 2 күн бұрын

If Japan had an ambition of territory on Korean peninsula, Japan must annex Korea as soon after the victory of Sino-Japanese war end in 1894. But Japan did not annex Korea, more over Japan supported to let Korea establish Korean empire in 1895. Korea established Great Korean REmpire in 1895. The reason why Japan bigan Sino-Japanese war was what Japan had to protect from Russia. Before the war Russia had advanced to Korean peninsula. But Korea was so vulnerable country. And Korea had been slavic dependency of Qing china for 1000 years long. Japan thought what Korea must be strong country. Japan tried to negotiate to let Korea be a modernized nation as well as Japan. But Korea denied Japan's offer. Soon Qing china intervened to Japan's action. So Sino-Japanese war occurred in 1894, Japan destroyed all Chinese gun ships. Japan won Qing china in 1894. So Korea could be an independency for first time.

@user-nd2zs1bd8l 2 ай бұрын

Where is Luxembourg

@j.a.weishaupt1748 Ай бұрын

Between Belgium, France and Germany

@user-nd2zs1bd8l Ай бұрын

@@j.a.weishaupt1748 I know that but the map didn't show Luxembourg in the video

@user-nd2zs1bd8l Ай бұрын

@@j.a.weishaupt1748 I know that but the map didn't show Luxembourg in the video

@hyltoniali257 2 ай бұрын

6:40 Qing* dao: Green, not Quing

@yassrecraft 2 ай бұрын

Why you didn't mention the russe Japanese war of 1905!!!!????????????!!!!!

@DujasKasemWilliamJohn 2 ай бұрын

It's not even WW1

@Putseller100 25 күн бұрын

@@DujasKasemWilliamJohn But the 1895 war with China was mentioned, that is also now ww1.

@Thomas_Name 2 ай бұрын

Because they hoped to make some easy conquests from a country whose lmain fleet was blocked in port back at the mother country 😂

@mach1systems. 2 ай бұрын

"Torbedo" !? (7:00) 🤣🤣🤣

@user-lj1lz9pp4e 2 ай бұрын

yes

@mr_ludwig 2 ай бұрын

TORBEDO🌮🇲🇽🤠

@user-lj1lz9pp4e 2 ай бұрын

@@mr_ludwig tarbela put

@jayjaylates5749 2 ай бұрын

He loved Albedo so much.

@Cory-gu7cm Ай бұрын

People should just call the first world.War the great war and just say world war 2 was world war One simple easy

@miliba 2 ай бұрын

Its spelled Qingdao, not Quingdao. At least the narrator pronounced it correctly

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 2 ай бұрын

A wonderful historical coverage video about the Japanese switching side against Germany during WW1 upon Britain advice and encouragement ....German Empire military advisors trained Japanese officers ,soldiers , and sailors before 1905 and WW1 ...against Russian empire navy and military...but the fire 🔥 turned against Germans during one night 😂😂😂😂

@DujasKasemWilliamJohn 2 ай бұрын

23 hours

@historyUnlimitedX Ай бұрын

100 battleships? lol NO you mean 100 warships of all classes. Britain and Germany had the most 25-30.

@SARodriguez-kw7wl 23 күн бұрын

Because in wWI Japan was an Allie of the US, UK and France

@bradotts 2 ай бұрын

First comment!!!! You guys always have some of the best videos. Can you do more videos on the Mongols. Also can you please put the sources in the videos just a simple request.

@jzi1601 2 ай бұрын

Explosions in the Netherlands when they were neutral during the whole war 🤔🤔😜

@jzi1601 2 ай бұрын

Also Qing didn't exist anymore in WWI. It fell to revolution in 1912.

@oliversherman2414 2 ай бұрын

10 minute gang 👇

@janekciscek288 2 ай бұрын

It's Qingdao, without the u.

@lpjuni 2 ай бұрын

If Japan did not side with Nazi Germany in order to give reason for continued expansion. Korea may have stayed unified. Japan and Germany was late to Colonialism and their eagerness displayed a too large to maintain. Always happens with Empires, they ultimately collapse.

@jamesholland8057 2 ай бұрын

To learn how to make good beer.

@kls9421 2 ай бұрын

how cheap were the battleships because 100 is a lot

@Alengar 2 ай бұрын

No country ever had 100 battleships, not even 20. Imperial Japanese Navy had 113 warships, including 12 battleships upon entering the war. During the war, four more battleships were built and one was sunk.

@xWarLegendx 2 ай бұрын

@@Alengarww1 or ww2?

@Alengar 2 ай бұрын

@@xWarLegendx WW1

@Farball189 2 ай бұрын

Yea

@vardhanidsp7250 2 ай бұрын

good vid

@lexbraxman9270 2 ай бұрын

JApanese was wilding out back in the days

@skilletfan51 2 ай бұрын

This just has...a lot of factual errors.

@joshfeehan6929 2 ай бұрын

No ottoman representation at the start good to see😂

@aleksandarjovanovic398 Ай бұрын

Japan were 1. Oriental state which beet Europe power like Russia 1905!

@juliasasha2029 2 ай бұрын

Japan had toppled China and crippled Russia and Germany

@theawesomeman9821 2 ай бұрын

Japan did it because it was opportunistic

@watchman835 2 ай бұрын

Japan should try to be independent from US and then have another go at China.

@DSS-jj2cw 2 ай бұрын

They will be sorry!

@sadfrog1248 2 ай бұрын

Cf do

@user-el3mt9uv4g 2 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

@williamlee7672 2 ай бұрын

This shows China was larger than today.

@theburden9920 2 ай бұрын

but china is more powerful today