Japan didn't want to surrender to Russia, and so they were planning to surrender to the US a few days before the US launched its nuclear missiles to send its own message to the world that it was becoming an empire.
@Quick-n-eg쿠이크앤이지 Says:
Dropping H bomb won the war. Invading an island nation would have been difficult. The US had less military personnel after fighting in Europe and also running out of weapons.
@micro7vista Says:
You never unstood the only thing about WW2 Pacific theater history that they taught us in high school? 😅😅 pay attention in class maybe
@theguy7273 Says:
Dont forget the U.S's massive economy
@nelsonchereta816 Says:
How did the US beat Japan in WW2? By the end of World War II the U.S. Navy was by far the largest and most powerful navy in the world with 7,601 ships, including 28 aircraft carriers, 23 battleships, 71 escort carriers, 72 cruisers, over 232 submarines, 377 destroyers, and thousands of amphibious, supply and auxiliary ships. It wasn't atomic bombs or a brilliant strategy, it as sheer overwhelming numbers and industrial capacity.
@matthewhuszarik4173 Says:
The US beat Japan by overwhelming production of war materials and men. The Japanese lost WW2 when they attacked Pearl Harbor. They never had any chance of winning.
@MrMTGPsycho Says:
There was also the Aircraft Carriers, the vast superiority in sheer number, the advanced tech like Radar on every US vessel. It's really not that hard to figure out.
@baconpwn Says:
The key was "Carrier go brr!"
@michaelpiwcewicz1412 Says:
BEET JAY PAN BIDEN SKI WAS SLEEPING
@katselija001 Says:
no it was nukes
@GRDwashere Says:
I suspect deleting entire cities with artificial suns may have something to do with it.
The allies, the British empire and her commonwealth played a huge roll as well…especially our navy, but we fought the Japanese in Singapore…
@cheongyiptuck5399 Says:
US ARE LUCKY .THEIR HOMELAND ARE SAFE.THOSE AMERICAN JOE CAN MANUFACTURE WAR EQUIPMENT WITHOUT DISRUPTION
@ChrisJensen-se9rj Says:
Dude, the submarine service of the USN sank over 5 million tons of Japanese merchant shipping.
@margaretbush Says:
Hmm… well we had a pre learned Navy (aka we knew what their strengths and weaknesses were because of what happened at Pearl Harbor). Spit firing the state was a huge mistake in their eyes.
@EzekielDeLaCroix Says:
Misinformation Harris at it again
@silentclown4307 Says:
How did your dad beat you when you was 10, yeah he explaining it
@jayrome8245 Says:
island hopping was needed to get close enough to rule the skys
@W1HURI Says:
Its like asking why how did the dad beat his 10yo child. Its not even a competition.
@jon0097 Says:
Bombs really big bombs
@worlds3061 Says:
I really hate this dude tbh, i don't mind watching edutainment videos, in fact its one of my favorite sub-genre of youtubers, but he treated us like a schoolchildren who don't know history, like goddam dude. When you made this type of videos, logically you might think your audience may have some prior knowledges such as world leaders, politics, wars, ect. but noooooo... I'm gonna explain some basic knowledge everyone pass middle school should know.
The fact that he also didn't call Kissinger a war criminal and only said "uhrrmmm idk, he had that war criminal vibe tho but i'm not sure lmao" Is infuriating.
@deadchannelxd4910 Says:
-80 iq
@jaster2211 Says:
Clearly failed highschool ww2 history class
@Holly-hm8wu Says:
This isn’t nearly the full story… this is like a high school level take and a narrow one at that.
Industrial capacity, access to resources, a decade of Sino-Japanese war, air supremacy and strategic bombing, submarine warfare, the manhattan project, Russian invasion of Manchuria.
@ghoxty1675 Says:
Didn’t it have something to do with a nuke or something…
@Stixxs254 Says:
I really liked your channel but now it just feels like a 10 year old who just got conscious
@BesimtariBerat Says:
Yeah but without an atomic bomb, conquering mainland japan would have been an whole other ball game.
@cthoadmin7458 Says:
The same way the battle of the Atlantic was won, by producing more ships, aircraft, tanks and guns than the Germans and Japanese could ever hope to destroy. The moment the Soviet Union and US entered the war, was the end ever really in doubt?
@josephh891 Says:
I think the nuclear bomb had a lot to do with it, too
@rf9078 Says:
"i never got how the us beat japan in ww2" dude we found out it was called the land of the rising sun so we gave them two.
@comment943 Says:
Is this guy for real everybody knows it took a fucking nuclear bomb to bet Japan they would have never have surrendered other wise some never did facts
@GodSonBlessed Says:
I'm pretty sure it was the two nuclear bombs.
@alexanderthompson5713 Says:
Eh. Japan had most of those little islands first. I wouldnt really say thats the main reason how the US won. They won because of victory at the battle of Midway and overwhelming industrial capability that kept pumping out more ships and planes while the IJN never truely recovered from their huge losses at Midway
@Randy.Bobandy Says:
They had more stuff. It’s really that simple.
@hugodias2449 Says:
History is written by the winners and the winners lie, distort and the truth....the invasion of Manchuria by the Russians was what made Japan surrender, the rest is BS to justify using the Japanese people as guinea pigs for their atomic bombs.....truth sucks
@Stevoblues Says:
“Winning”? There is no winning at war
@adammissildine8027 Says:
How would we not win.Our industrial capacity was humongous and after Pearl Harbor the US wasn’t going to surrender no matter what.
@razvy6949 Says:
People seem to think the nukes did everything lmao. If you do a ridiculously small amount of research you'll find out that a fire bomb strike on Tokyo a day prior killed more people than both the nukes combined so... It's ironic, because Japan's government at the time wasn't impressed about the bombs
@AstrophoenixOfficial Says:
In two words:
Big nukes
@razabadass Says:
:)
@marksteve9247 Says:
Logistics wins wars, in America case that is a factor!
@reg1mbald294 Says:
You should read the book of Eugene sledge "the man and the old breed" about his experience in the pacific theater, there's also this TV show called "The Pacific" directly inspired from this book, it's a great show, it shows how brutal the war was against the japanese for the americans forces, also how they had to fight in harsh conditions with the tropical climate and jungle setting!
@VirtualInsanity91 Says:
This isn’t a secret.
@Biga101011 Says:
I mean Nimitz was pursuing the Island hopping campaign simultaneously with MacArthur pushing through Indonesia to take back the Philippines.
Oh and that was all while we were flying supply runs over the Himalayas and building a road through Burma to supply the Chinese resistance.
It really helped that the wartime American economy had the resources to put out a relentless amount of equipment and pull from a significant supply of manpower.
@monsoon861 Says:
Little boy and far man has entered the chat
@GabrielGonato-dg4mh Says:
I thought the 2 nukes made the job. So it was more complicated than that😐...
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