The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
|
 |
 
|
Have done a lot of reading about WW2. God damn the Japanese were stupid.
Poast new message in this thread
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:23 PM Author: Sticky rose den digit ratio They were rolling China and would have taken all of Asia - including the last vestiges of the colonial controlled countries. All they had to do was just not attack America. So fucking stupid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526323) |
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:25 PM Author: Aromatic partner They smoked the colonies but they were hitting a brick wall in China even before war with the US weren't they?
My memory was that they did very well against China early and took most of the coast but struggled to push further towards the interior. |
 |
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:27 PM Author: Sticky rose den digit ratio If they had concentrated on China - they easily would have taken it over. They already had Korea. They'd easily been able to grab and hold Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, etc. They could have easily grabbed India too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526353) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:32 PM Author: poppy roommate Zhukov decided it was time to break the stalemate.[43] At 05:45 on 20 August 1939, Soviet artillery and 557 aircraft[43] attacked Japanese positions, the first fighter-bomber offensive in Soviet Air Force history.[53] Approximately 50,000 Soviet and Mongolian soldiers of the 57th Special Corps attacked the east bank of the Khalkhin Gol. Three infantry divisions and a tank brigade crossed the river, supported by massed artillery and by the Soviet Air Force. Once the Japanese were pinned down by the attack of Soviet center units, Soviet armored units swept around the flanks and attacked the Japanese in the rear, achieving a classic double envelopment. When the Soviet wings linked up at Nomonhan village on 25 August, they trapped the Japanese 23rd Infantry Division.[32][54][55] On 26 August, a Japanese counterattack to relieve the 23rd Division failed. On 27 August the 23rd Division attempted to break out of the encirclement but failed. When the surrounded forces refused to surrender, they were again hit with artillery and air attacks. By 31 August, Japanese forces on the Mongolian side of the border were destroyed, leaving remnants of the 23rd Division on the Manchurian side. The Soviets had achieved their objective.[56] (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526379) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:28 PM Author: poppy roommate They fell for the oldest trick in the book at Khalkhin Gol. Biggest upset since, well, Tsushima. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526360) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:44 PM Author: Maniacal french stain ticket booth Link? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526436) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:28 PM Author: Translucent bonkers dopamine yea bro all hitler needed to do scrap barbarossa and hed be alive today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526363) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:29 PM Author: Sticky rose den digit ratio Pretty sure he'd be dead today, bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526366) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:33 PM Author: Translucent bonkers dopamine stuffwhitepeoplelike: playing armchair general (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526384) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:35 PM Author: Sticky rose den digit ratio Armchair Admiral, achually ... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526390) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:29 PM Author: Pungent bearded institution China doesn't have oil (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526368) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:31 PM Author: Sticky rose den digit ratio Attacking the US got them no oil. They got all their oil from Indonesia and Borneo. The US would NOT have declared war on them if they attacked those countries. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526374) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:32 PM Author: Jade locus When you read up on how fanatical their culture was back then, you understand that rationality was an impossibility. During that time, any politician who was halfway rational and cautious found himself quickly executed by some radical hothead. And that hothead immediately found himself a hero.
I recall reading about one such assassin who was on trial for murder and like ten military cadets sent the judge letters written in blood with their own severed pinkies attached, begging for the honor of being executed in the hothead's place. |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:33 PM Author: Sticky rose den digit ratio (guy who listens to Hardcore History) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526386) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:35 PM Author: Jade locus Got it from here:
As usual a large segment of the public sympathized with the assassins, and there was general applause when one defendant declared that he and his comrades only wanted to sound an alarm to awaken the nation. The people had heard so much about “corruption” that little sympathy was shown the memory of gallant little Inukai. His death was a warning to politicians. Feeling ran so high that 110,000 petitions for clemency, signed or written entirely in blood, inundated officials of the trial. Nine young men from Niigata asked to take the place of those on trial, and to show their good faith enclosed their own nine little fingers pickled in a jar of alcohol.
Toland, John. The Rising Sun (Modern Library War) (pp. 24-25). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:39 PM Author: Sticky rose den digit ratio I think he actually told that story if those 9 guys were all going to the Japanese West Point at the time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526412) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:34 PM Author: poppy roommate Then one day they became rational, and stayed rational ever since. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526389) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:35 PM Author: Sticky rose den digit ratio (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526393) |
|
Date: March 26th, 2024 3:03 PM Author: yapping alcoholic gay wizard “Without Jews, your society can’t lose.” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47528985) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:36 PM Author: Vengeful Iridescent Crackhouse Almost like it was a trap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526397) |
|
Date: March 25th, 2024 9:40 PM Author: 180 internal respiration chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47526420) |
|
Date: March 26th, 2024 2:42 PM Author: Sticky rose den digit ratio (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5509054&forum_id=2#47528914) |