Why did Japan dare to go to war with the United States during World War II?

Let's analyze the strength of Japan during World War II from various aspects.

Let's start with the population. During World War II, the Japanese were quite large, their population was more than that of any European country, and they had every reason to go to war with other countries, because they had enough manpower to plan such a big war, invade other countries, and make their small country strong.

Let's talk about resources. During World War II, Japan had gradually become stronger, and many of its things could be invented by itself, whether it was at noon or in terms of advanced technology, the country already had too many things. However, because China is indeed too backward, it is still in a period of feudal backwardness.

In addition, in 1937, the three northeastern provinces were already occupied. Therefore, the Japanese ** felt that he had a complete advantage in occupying the whole of China.

There is also the fact that China itself was in the weak position of that era, and a country with a feudal nation had not yet woken up at all, and as the saying goes, if you are backward, you will be beaten. The Chinese people were not interesting at all, so that time was the best time for Japan to invade China. In addition, China has a vast land and abundant resources, and Japan's land area is small, so how can Japan not go to war against China with such a big piece of fat meat in front of China!

The last point is that the German Nazis, the frenzied aggression, fueled the arrogance of Japan. If Japan were a small country invading other countries, I think Japan would definitely be cowardly. It was the powerful Germany behind him that supported him.

He had no reason to be afraid at all, with the strategic and technical support of Germany, plus it was still an Allied country, so his arrogance must have become even more arrogant, so a war of aggression was inevitable.

Because of the lack of resources and too much ambition.

The United States wants to protect its territory in Southeast Asia. Japan wants a "piece of the pie" in Southeast Asia. Judging from the situation at that time, in order for Japan to "make a difference", it had to "touch" the United States, so Japan decided to go to war with the powerful United States! <>

Before Japan went to war with the United States, in fact, Japan had two main operational directions: southward and northward. To go south is to march into Southeast Asia, and to go north is to go deep into Siberia to seize rich resources.

From May to September 1939, Japan first implemented the "Northward Plan", but it was severely damaged by Russia in the wasteland, and the Northward Plan failed. Since the plan to go north did not work, Japan had no choice but to go south, and if it wanted to go south, it would have to "grab meat and eat it" from the mouths of the Western powers. <

To go south, specifically, was to establish a Japanese colony in Southeast Asia, which at that time was already occupied by the Dutch, British, and American countries. If Japan wants to intervene in the cake that has been divided in Southeast Asia for a long time, it must speak by force. The reason why the United States was chosen to "open the knife" is because the United States and Japan have a long history of economic and political disputes.

In response to the Japanese army's imminent performance in Southeast Asia and other regions, the United States decided to adopt a closed state against the Japanese army and banned the export of steel and oil to Japan. The bits and pieces of contradictions eventually converged into the major incident of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, a naval base in the Pacific, and at the same time launched an attack on the colonies of Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma, and the Philippines, and the Pacific War officially began.

The United States, which was watching from the other side, was dragged into the water by Japan and participated in World War II. The United States may not understand why Japan, "a small country," dares to do something to itself, but in Japan's view, they have no choice, and their "operations" in other regions require soldiers, oil, and minerals. If they could not expand their colonies, it would be difficult to achieve a long-term offensive, and they had to go to war with the United States, which was a psychological activity of the Japanese, and it turned out that they overestimated their own strength.

Because during World War II, Japan's strength was also very strong, and it wanted to occupy a certain amount of land in Southeast Asia, and at that time, Southeast Asia had been conquered by the United States and fell under the jurisdiction of the United States, so Japan challenged the United States in order to compete for resources and land in Southeast Asia.

It was because Japan occupied the northeast of China at that time, and Japan's military strength had changed and improved greatly at that time, and Japan's ambitions were particularly large, and the United States was the country with the largest oil production at that time.

Because Japan's strength was also very strong at that time, and they also had certain economic and resource disputes, so they suddenly went to war.

Because they are all seizing the resources of Southeast Asia, they are for their own interests, so they dare to go to war against the United States.

Because Japan wants to occupy the territory of the United States, this situation will arise.

World War II was a very large war in human history, involving more than a dozen countriesThe Germans and the Japanese caused the war is very painful, Japan is a small island country, the territory is very small, but it dares to start the Pacific War, openly provoke the United States, and make enemies of the United States, what is the reason?

Before the war started, the United States and Japan have always been in a cooperative relationship, each side takes what it needs, the cooperation is very good, and Japan is an important importer of the United States, and the amount of oil and steel imported every year is very large, and these things are very important to the war. Without these, Japan would be greatly affected.

Since the United States attacked Japan, it suddenly imposed an embargo on Japan, which is undoubtedly a blow to Japan, and there are only two ways in front of the Japanese, stop the war, or find new resources. Japan is unwilling to let go, they are reluctant to let go of everything under Chinese aggression, how can they let go of the fruits of their labor that they have finally obtained. Japan wanted to have resources and didn't want to lose its gains.

If you advance northward, you will lose the benefits of China's battlefield, and if you advance southward, you will come into conflict with the United States, and they will choose to invade Southeast Asia for the sake of interests. Many parts of Southeast Asia are colonies of the United States, and Japan will certainly harm the interests of the United StatesDriven by interests, they finally attacked the United States and attacked Pearl HarborThe Japanese negotiating team left the United States only a few hours before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese wanted to destroy the main force of the U.S. Navy through war, thus bringing the United States to the negotiating table. This war has hurt too many innocent people, resisting the war and living in peace.

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in order to conduct their Pacific War and weaken the strength of the United States, the biggest rival in the Pacific. This step proved to be his gain time and early initiative in the Pacific War.

At that time, he had already won a great victory in Asia, and in order to expand the results of the war, he pointed the finger at the United States.

Because Japan was a very powerful presence in Asia at that time, it had super strong strength.

Due to the unilateral announcement of the United States to terminate the war with Japan, Japan's oil and steel resources were threatened, and in order to open up the Pacific Ocean and ensure Japan's war resources, it had no choice but to declare war with the United States.

Because Japan was developing rapidly at that time. The country is very strong and ambitious.

When you have a chance to wipe out the strongest navy in the world at the time, you still have a chance of victory (Pearl Harbor).

The United States and Japan had always maintained a cooperative relationship, and the annual imports were huge, especially oil and steel, which were important for the war effort. But the United States suddenly imposed an embargo on Japan, which had a huge impact on Japan, so they either stopped the war or found new resources, and Japan was definitely not willing to give up the hard-won results, so they decided to find a new place to obtain resources, so they found Southeast Asia, which can fully support the resources used in the war. So for the sake of Southeast Asia, Japan began to fight with the United States, attacked their Pearl Harbor, and declared war on the United States.

From my personal point of view, Japan may be because of its own strength. Defiant.

Because at that time, Japan and the United States were not in the same camp, and they had to defeat the United States if they wanted to truly achieve this goal.

In order to seize the resources of Southeast Asia, it will inevitably conflict with the interests of the United States in Southeast Asia.

1. At the beginning of World War II, due to the special geographical location of the United States, there was basically no direct armed conflict with Germany and Italy in the European theater and Japan in the Asian theater. In September 1939, the German-Polish War broke out, and on September 5, the United States declared that the United States remained neutral in the war.

2. Due to the heavy defeat of the United States in World War I, and at the same time North America is far away from the Eurasian continent, the atmosphere of isolationism in the United States in the 30s of the last century was strong, and it did not care much about things outside the United States, but as the war progressed, the neutral position of the United States began to loosen. After the defeat of France in 1940, the United States actively prepared for defense and decided to assist Britain by all means other than entering the war.

3. An important reason why Japan dared to be the first to go to war against the United States in World War II was that Japan successfully occupied Northeast China in 1931. In 1932, Japan established the "puppet Manchukuo" here, and at that time Japan said that the puppet "Manchukuo" was an "independent country", and the "puppet Manchukuo" was recognized by 23 countries or regimes.

4. The Northeast region is not only rich in resources, according to historical statistics, in the early days of World War II, its industrial scale has been comparable to that of Japan, and in the later stage of World War II, the industrial scale of the so-called puppet Manchukuo has surpassed that of Japan and has become the largest economy in Asia, and its GDP is second only to the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom in the world.

5. This is an important confidence for Japan to dare to be the first to start a war against the United States in World War II, because after Japan occupied Northeast China in 1931, it not only doubled its economic strength, but more importantly, it obtained rich strategic resources, such as grain, steel, coal and other minerals.

In fact, the biggest reason for BAI is the attitude of the United States towards Japan

The two poles have changed, and if the dao United States has been keeping nothing back, yet.

However, when Japan was preparing for the invasion of China, the United States was giving Japan technical and material support, and even in the early stage of the invasion of China.

It is like this, it was not a whim for Japan to fight the United States in World War II.

As early as the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, the Japanese Navy regarded the U.S. Navy as an imaginary enemy and formulated a strategy for itself to dominate the Pacific. This caused concern in the US Navy.

Since then, there has been constant friction between Japan and the United States, but the United States pursued isolationism at that time, and the contradictions were not prominent for the time being.

In 1939, after the outbreak of the European War, relations between Japan and Germany became even closer. At that time, Japan was caught in the quagmire of the Chinese battlefield and could not extricate itself, and the Japanese military department also had the consideration of withdrawing troops from China to ensure the interests of North China and Manchuria, and the United States also acquiesced to this clause at that time.

However, after seeing Hitler's successive victories, the fanatics of the Japanese military began to be arrogant again, believing that the Nanyang region (the traditional colony of the European powers) had become a ripe peach, and Japan had it at its fingertips.

As a result, Japan entered the French colony in Vietnam (Indochina).

This aroused the vigilance of the United States, which began to impose a steel and oil embargo on Japan.

Japan lacked resources, and the Navy proposed at that time that if the embargo was carried out for 1 year, the Japanese Navy would not be able to fight the United States.

Under these circumstances, Japan finally decided on a policy of going south, and going south to seize the colonies in Europe would inevitably encounter American resistance, so Japan decided to follow the example of the Russo-Japanese War in the past, first crushing the American fleet, then occupying the Southeast Asian colonies, and finally making peace with the United States.

In the end, there was a war against the United States.

There are two reasons for this.

One is on the American side

Because of the economic sanctions imposed on Japan by the United States, Britain and other countries. and the control of economic zones in Southeast Asia caused economic isolation to Japan. In addition, in 1941, the United States did not do a good job of fighting against Japan, and single-mindedly "bargained" with Western European countries, and its Pacific forces were obviously insufficient compared with Japan (the US military had only two aircraft carriers in the Hawaiian Islands; Japan, on the other hand, has assembled a total of 8 large and small aircraft carriers).

The Japanese army was provided with the conditions for a sneak attack.

The second is the Japanese side

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan's military and economy developed rapidly. The national strength is booming. It has the capital to compete with traditional powers such as Europe and the United States.

Coupled with the war of aggression in China, the war is fed by war...and the growing expansion of militarism. At the same time, the "neutral countries" led by the United States tightened economic sanctions against Axis members.

In Southeast Asia, it has been with Britain and the United States. For the sake of our own economy and the common prosperity of Greater East Asia, there is also a little arrogance. Japan finally started the Pacific War.

During World War II, war between the United States and Japan was a matter of time.

However, it is impossible for Japan to brazenly launch a war against the United States because of arrogance, because after all, in the early days of the Pacific War, the Japanese army had absolute superiority. The turning point was at Midway.