Comparing The Alliance Of Japan And Hitler

After the world war I allied countries had signed the treaty of Versailles. Japan had felt left out because it wanted to include a part about racial equality. They felt that they weren't being treated equally. So Japan had started to take control and conquer land in southeast Asian countries. They wanted to spread their rule and race. The U.S. didn’t agree with Japan’s action and over the years tension has developed between the two countries. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because of their nationalist mindset, America’s embargo of oil, and the fear of being attacked by the United States because of its growth.

Clearly, Japan wanted more power during World War II. Japan believed Europe and America dominated across the globe for too long. Japan became jealous and wanted to be as powerful as these nations. They decided to establish a policy titled the “New Order”. Japan hoped to spread their reign across the world, however The United States did not appreciate this. Document A explains, “The benevolent rule of the Emperor may be extended so as to embrace the whole world”. Japan wants to control other countries around the world. America does not agree and decides to freeze their assets and bank accounts to hopefully stop Japan’s power strides. Instead of accepting America’s demands, they decided to bomb Pearl Harbor in retaliation to prove their brutality to the rest of the

Overall, Japan had many reasons that led to the attack and bombing of Pearl Harbor. Although the attack on Pearl Harbor may have been an overdue response to the decisions made after World War I, Japan also wanted to put their plan into place for a new world order, the United States oil embargo against them caused issues, and the expansion of the American naval fleet frightened them. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because they wanted to gain power and leadership in the

For starters, Japan’s imperialistic interests could be due to multiple reasons such as their beliefs and fears. As a matter of fact, according to Doc. A,”The ideals of Japan… are represented by the principle that the

Japan’s decision to isolate themselves from the world created the conflict. Their decision however, was greatly influenced by the Europeans, who constantly tried to take advantage of the

War II and broke the Allied relationship between Japan and America. The reasons why Japan

The cause of Japan wanting to attack Pearl Harbor was the United States standing in the way of Japan for their plan for a new world order. In 1938, Japan announced their plan for a new world order (Doc C). Japan wanted their empire to rule the entire world (Doc A). The idea was that Japan would be in control of Asia, Japan, the United States. (Doc A). Japan started by occupying Manchuria in 1932 and attacking China in 1937 (Doc C). Japan did not want other countries to overpower them and wanted control to themselves.

The war against Japan provided the Allies with completely new problems as they faced up to an enemy with completely different tactics. Japan’s imperial ambitions had been evident from as early as 1931. Japan became seen as a serious threat to the economic interests and influence of the US and European powers in Asia. By July 1937, Japan was engaged in all-out war with China and turned to the Axis powers, signing the Tripartie Pact with Germany

wanted to avoid war. Japan, Italy and Germany were the ones who wanted to cause conflict. These three countries wanted to expand and take over and were willing to go to war over it. Japan wanted to expand so they invaded Manchuria. Italy wanted to go into Africa and build an empire and Germany was being taking over by Hitler who wanted to take over Europe. Everyone was wanting to take something that did not belong to them. Benito Mussolini was over Italy, Hitler had Germany and Francisco Franco had France. Italy and Germany signed an Axis Pact and Japan forged an alliance with Germany and joined the Pact later. Hitler had it out for the Jews of Germany. He launched a massive attack on them. He wanted to unite all German speaking people and form a new empire the “Third Reich”. Roosevelt gave a speech and mentioned Four Freedoms which were the freedom of speech, to be able to worship God in their own way, freedom of want and to not fear you neighboring nation. When he gave this speech he was not just talking to America. At the end of each one he ended it with “everywhere in the world”. He then demanded heavy military expenditures and in April 1941 the U.S. occupied Greenland. That summer Winston Churchill and Roosevelt signed the Atlantic Charter that pledged freedom of the seas and trade. Germany and Japan are the ring leaders in this. We were able to crack a Japanese code that told us they were planning to attack the Dutch Indies. So to try

eventually in a way caused the war by limiting japans resources and getting involved with their war with japan and their process of imperialism. The U.S. had control over japans supply in oil and resources but didn’t have access to Germanys so getting involved with Germanys imperialism would take a lot more effort on the U.S. side, while we did have control over the resources and oil of japan so we could easily prevent Japan from growing stronger as a country.

What did all of this have to do with the U.S.? Well, because the U.S. had ties with East Asia, politically and economically, the decisions Japan were making were also affecting the U.S. So, America took it upon itself to increase military and financial aid to China. The reason this decision was made was to cut off oil shipments and raw materials to Japan. This is what really angered the Japanese.

The Japanese could have joined the war by saying they were on our side and then took the side of their people. We have always had a tight relationship with the Japanese people. So we don't know what is going to happen. They could turn against us at any time. So we have to be prepared for anything that they throw at us. They can be our allies one minute, and in the next minute they could be our enemies. We need to know whether or not we can trust them. If we could we should have let them fight for us, they might have

The idea that something this catastrophic could happen to their seemingly untouchable country was simply unbelievable. This newfound rage for the japanese united America and yanked them out of neutrality. The Second World War actually provided new jobs for many people in military factories, civilians could take out their anger fueling the American war

Japan was a very nationalistic country in which the purpose of the civilians was to fight until death for their emperor. This was evident in the fact that they had practiced an extremely nationalistic concept of Bushido. This concept made surrender unacceptable for all Japanese people and they lived to die for the emperor. There nationalism was fueled by the fact that they won 2 large battles (Sino Japanese War and Russo Japanese war) against larger countries. Along with this, the Japanese also had Kamikaze pilots who suicide by deliberately crashing planes into American warship as a tactic of fighting. This extreme nationalism shows that they could not be fought with regular weapons and so posed a threat for the whole world.

We wanted the end the war at the earliest possible moment. The U.S. wanted an effective and quick way to end the war, so bombing Japan was the way to go. The Japanese believed up to 20 million many have died