During World War II, wouldn t it be better for Japan to go north to attack the Soviet Union? Why pro

Because during World War II, Japan's resources were depleted with the war, resulting in a shortage of Japan's resources, and at this time, the United States had also slowed down the export of resources to Japan, and at the same time increased its support for the Allies. Therefore, this caused a very lack of wartime resources in Japan, and at this time, if it continued to go north and attack the Soviet Union with Germany, then Japan's resource consumption at this time would be greater, and in the end it would be unimaginable, so Japan at that time would choose to go south to occupy Southeast Asia, so as to plunder resources.

The Japanese raid on the United States during World War II and the launch of the Pearl Harbor attack were actually because the Battle of Normenheim between Japan and the Soviet Union was in a white-hot stage at that time, and Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact at this time, and it was still without Japan's knowledge. At this time, Japan was actually very annoyed, so in 1941, Japan directly attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States without notifying Germany, in order to retaliate against Germany.

From this incident, it can be seen that Japan and Germany were actually in a state of mutual suspicion at that time, so the two sides did not trust each other at this time, and even held a trace of resentment. Even if the two sides establish an alliance relationship, then it is a very weak relationship, and it is not unbreakable. And if the two sides do occupy Moscow together, then there may be a dispute over the distribution of spoils.

Therefore, the reason why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor at that time was not only to retaliate against Germany, but also because of the problem of resources. Due to the continuous attrition of the war, many industrial production in Japan at that time was actually in a state of stagnation. In addition, at that time, Japan originally wanted to occupy the resources of Southeast Asian countries, and later after going south, many countries in Southeast Asia were colonies of European countries, so Japan was in a dilemma at this time, and it was very difficult to plunder resources.

Because Japan and the United States had differences of opinion at that time, Japan sent troops to attack the United States in order for the United States not to stop itself.

Because Japan wants to plunder maritime resources, and Japan is a maritime country with stronger naval combat capabilities, it will not attack the Soviet Union, but will fight the United States.

At that time, Japan and the Soviet Union had a neutrality treaty, so there was no moral mutual protection for the war with the Soviet army, and during World War II, Japan invested a large number of troops in China, resulting in its own shortage, and Japan went to war with the United States for oil resources, provoking the United States.

During World War II, Japan's ambition was to cover the entire Asia-Pacific region, and at that time, there was a strong militaristic atmosphere in Japan, so the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, which led to the entry of the United States into World War II.

It's not that you don't dare, but it's not necessary. If Japan and the Soviet Union went to war, what could Japan get? The essence of the Soviet Union is all in Europe, Siberia is a polar bear where there is ice and snow, and Japan has no ability to extract oil in the frozen region, and he cannot even cope with the frozen soil of Northeast China, let alone Siberia.

A war with the Soviet Union can only end up being a wedding dress for the Germans. Of course, this is true from the point of view of the general interests of the entire fascist camp, but the essence of international competition is the national interest; Japan and Germany were only loose alliances, and Japan had neither the need nor the possibility of serving German interests.

On the contrary, it was in Japan's best interest to go to war in Southeast Asia. Japan itself is a resource-poor country, while Southeast Asia is rich in resources, especially Japan and its scarce oil resources; At that time, Indonesia was the equivalent of the current Persian Gulf. The main occupiers there, the European powers, were basically defeated or pinned down by Germany in their own countries, and the only one who could resist Japan was the United States.

Therefore, it is in Japan's best interest to use Germany to defeat the European powers, contain the favorable situation of the Soviet Union, and actively move south. Of course, in the long run, this choice ultimately destroyed Japan, but the biggest problem of Japan in World War II was the lack of far-sighted strategists who always pursued immediate interests.

After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, there were considerable differences within the Japanese military department about "southward advance" and "northward advance." The "northward" side held that under normal mobilization conditions, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese and Soviet divisions was roughly one to one, but due to the Soviet-German war, the Soviet troops in the Far East were in a poor state of preparation, and their combat effectiveness was only 7/5 of that of the Japanese divisions. Therefore, the Japanese army later launched the tentative Battle of Nomenkan, which underestimated the combat effectiveness and reinforcements of the Soviet army, and the Japanese army's armor technology and army combat effectiveness lagged behind the Soviet army, coupled with strategic mistakes, and finally suffered a crushing defeat at the Soviet army, and its only and most valuable tank division, the First Tank Division, was almost completely wiped out.

After the Nomenkan, the Japanese intelligence department judged that the German army was unable to force the Soviet army to surrender that year, and the situation was not necessarily favorable to the German army in the second year, so the Japanese army finally had to abandon the "northward advance" plan. The reason why the Japanese army has never been able to make up its mind to send more troops north is that the Chinese battlefield has contained it.

As for the "southward expansion", on the one hand, it is because after Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, the United States took into account its own interests to impose an oil and ** embargo on Japan, which is undoubtedly a choke on an island country like Japan with few resources. At that time, Southeast Asia was a major oil and natural rubber producing region, and the invasion of the south could solve its urgent needs, and countries such as Britain, France, and the Netherlands had no time to look east because of the war in Europe. Second, Japan, relying on its own military superiority, is mainly a navy, and naturally goes south to seize colonies and strategic resources.

Later, in order to further expand its interests and seize the dominance of the Pacific Ocean, he risked a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in a vain attempt to destroy the US Navy, thus launching the Pacific War.

First of all, the landlord understood why Japan was fighting.

Empire glorious? East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere? That's just literally, wars are always for profit. It is a political fool to have an empty name and no interests.

Resources, Japan has always been fighting for resources, whether it is Mongolia, the three eastern provinces or Southeast Asia, the Japanese army is running to places with a lot of coal, oil, and rubber - no way, Japan's local resources are really lacking, it is said that if no resources are grabbed, Japan's oil reserves are only enough for the army for a week.

Therefore, when he attacked the Northeast, North China, and Southeast Asia, he took a fancy to the fact that the troops in these places were too weak and had a lot of resources. What about the United States? When he saw that a small island country had occupied all the resources of the whole of East Asia, he was unhappy in his heart, and he was unwilling to send troops to die, so he blocked Japan's resource shipping lanes.

Now Japan is dumbfounded - the resources are there, and there is a fart for not being able to transport them back? Therefore, sooner or later, Japan will have to fight the United States, and if it does not fight, it will not be able to lift the blockade, and if the blockade continues, its troops will "starve to death."

Moreover, the Soviet army has not taken it lightly in the Far East, even if it sends troops to support Moscow, the number of its troops in the Far East has always remained at 70-1 million, and there are more than 2,000 tanks. Look at the Nomenkan ...... againThe Japanese are still very sober.

Even if the Soviet army was undefended in the Far East, Japan had no intention of going north - to flank Moscow? Don't be funny, thousands of miles of Siberian plains, they all froze to death and starved to death before they finished walking; And the resources of Siberia are difficult to develop today, let alone Japan at that time. Occupying an enclave and not being able to spare resources, Japan will not do such a thankless task.

After fighting, the Battle of Nomenkan in 1939 could not win the Soviet Union at all, and was completely crushed, and the Japanese army found that the difference between dream and reality was huge, so they gave up fighting the Soviet Union and turned south to attack other parts of Asia.

In 1931, Japan and the Soviet Union went to war at Nomenkan, and Japan, impressed by the powerful firepower of the Soviet Union, dismissed the strategy of going north to fight the Soviet Union and turned south.

Germany has been defeated, and Russia in the Greater East Asia Prosperity Circle has only the Far East, and they fascists have a division of labor.

World War II period. Germany's main opponent was the Soviet army.

At that time, the Japanese army was pinned down by China and could not attack the Soviet army from the direction of Asia.

In June 1941, Germany launched a thunderous attack on the Soviet Union, and the Soviet-German war broke out. The German army was overwhelming, straight into Moscow, and the Soviet Union could only parry due to poor defense. At this time, Japan, which was also an Axis power, did not make any moves on the other side of the Soviet Union to help Germany flank the Soviet Union.

The author believes that there are the following reasons:

First, the Battle of Nomenkan in the early stage made the Japanese army feel uneasy. It is not that Japan has no intention of committing any offense to the Soviet Union, because after all, the Soviet Union is the number one rival entrenched on the road of Japan's "northward expansion policy." Therefore, after Japan occupied the three eastern provinces, it could not wait to fight with the Soviet Union in the name of "Manchukuo" and "Mongolia" at Nomenkan.

Although the Soviets were briefly locked in a fierce battle at Nomenkan, the campaign ended in a crushing defeat for Japan. In this battle, the Japanese army saw the military hard power of the Soviet army to engage in mechanization, and the outstanding military soft power of Soviet generals such as General Zhukov. Let the Japanese army pack up their mood and set off towards the Soviet Union again, the Japanese army will inevitably hesitate.

Second, the adjustment of Japan's strategic deployment at this time led to the lack of combat strength of the Kwantung Army. At the beginning of the war, the Japanese army and navy were arguing endlessly over strategic deployment, with the former advocating the northward march and the Soviet Union to compete for the right to speak on land, and the latter advocating going south to compete with the United States and Britain for the right to speak on the sea. After the failure of the Kwantung Army's northward expansion policy, the Japanese army adjusted its strategic deployment to a southward policy, and most of its superior forces and logistical support were tilted toward the Pacific theater.

When the German army attacked the Soviet Union, the Japanese army had just signed the "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty" with the Soviet army, not that Japan was a gentleman who abided by the treaty, but the Japanese Kwantung Army was really unable to fight the Soviet army at this time.

Third, driven by Japan's national interests. The Axis alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan was not so close, especially Japan and Germany, which was equivalent to grazing in two troughs, and it was really a slice operation, and it did not reach the level of fearlessness that focused on global strategic coordination. Although the "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty" was signed after Japan invaded the interests of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union did not relax its precautions against Japan, and with the stubborn resistance of the righteous soldiers of the Northeast China Anti-Japanese Alliance against the Kwantung Army, Japan was really unwilling to gnaw on the hard bone of the Soviet Union.

Proceeding from its own interests, the Japanese Kwantung Army focused more energy on its vested interests in China, and perhaps it was also waiting for the Soviet Union and Germany to exhaust themselves and lose both, and it was not clear whether they would seek other benefits at that time.

Because Germany was temporarily attacking the Soviet Union at that time, and Japan's main battlefield was in China, there was no extra energy to fight Germany to flank the Soviet Union.

Because Japan did not have so much energy, their main forces were consumed in the East Asian theater, and they simply did not have the energy to attack the Soviet Union again.

Because both Japan and Germany had their own enemies, Japan was delayed in the Chinese theater at that time and could not do it.

During the Soviet-German contest in World War II, why did the Japanese Kwantung Army dare not flank the Soviet Union?

I think it can be won. Because Germany and Japan were waging an unjust fascist war, they would be opposed by other countries.

Dumbfounded, Japan helped Germany destroy Russia, then Germany will destroy Japan next, Japan's headquarters is thinking about the mutual consumption of Germany and Russia, and Japan can reap more benefits in the Pacific direction, I have seen this confidential report of Japan...

The Soviet Union and Japan had Fu first, and the Japanese had suffered heavy deaths on the battlefield in China.

In order to force the United States to cede Southeast Asia to itself, Japan wanted to inflict heavy damage on the U.S. Navy and occupy Southeast Asia by attacking Pearl Harbor.

Answer: Because during World War II, the Japanese army believed that its land forces could not defeat the Soviet Union, so they gave up the plan to flank the Soviet Union with Germany; At the same time, developing toward the sea as its national policy, and in the process of dominating the western Pacific, it would endanger the interests of the United States, but in order to establish hegemony in the western Pacific, Japan chose to provoke the US military.

Because Japan was arrogant and arrogant during World War II, it believed that the United States would not dare to send troops, so it went to provoke the American military.

Judging from the contest between Germany and the Soviet Union, if Japan were to attack Germany at the same time, the Soviet Union would be very dangerous.

After passing through the vast snowfield, thousands of kilometers of no-man's land to the west to join the German army, how many people can the Japanese guarantee that they will not starve to death? Not to mention fighting.

If during World War II, Japan cooperated with Germany to flank the Soviet Union, (at this time, North China sent troops Okamura Ningji, and added the South China Dispatch Army, which was fully capable of striking at the people**), and poured the whole country into taking the Soviet Union! On the Italian side, with the cooperation of the German army, Africa was taken, and the Axis powers were victorious. At this time, the United States will merge with North America.

A new pattern of the world is formed!

The Japanese emperor moved the capital to Chinese mainland! After a short period of peace, the Axis powers poured their power into Asia, Europe and Africa to attack the Americas!