Why Japan Thought It Could Defeat the United States in World War II

Описание: Why Japan Thought It Could Defeat the United States in World War II

In the early 1940s, Japan made one of the most consequential decisions in modern history: to go to war with the United States.

But this wasn’t madness—or blind aggression.

Japanese leaders believed, with calculated confidence, that America could be beaten. Or more precisely, that it would lose the will to fight.

This documentary explores the strategic assumptions, intelligence failures, and cultural misreadings that led Japan to believe a short, decisive war against the United States was possible—and why that belief turned into a catastrophic miscalculation.

From Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s private warnings, to Japan’s expectations of a war-weary America, to the brutal reality of industrial warfare, this is the story of how a nation convinced itself that the impossible was achievable.

And why it was wrong.

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⏱️ CHAPTER

00:00 – The Decision That Shocked the World
01:42 – Japan’s Strategic Dilemma
04:10 – The Assumption About America
07:05 – Yamamoto’s Warning
10:18 – Why Japan Expected a Short War
13:40 – Industrial Reality vs Strategy
17:22 – The War That Didn’t End
20:30 – The Cost of Miscalculation

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