Countdown to War JAPAN - How Imperial Japan Prepared for WWII
Simon Whistler · November 22, 2022 · 31 min video · China & Indo-Pacific
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It's November 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II has just abdicated his throne. The Ottoman and former Austro-Hungarian empires are quaking in their boots. The Spanish flu has replaced the Great War as the leading force of misery and death around the world.
The Allied powers of France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States and Japan are beginning the process that will eventually lead to the signing of the Treaty of Versa illes and the establishment of a new, albeit temporary, world order.
Although Japan had seen comparatively little action compared to the other nations involved in the war, this war is proven invaluable to the Allies. The spoils, a scatter of formerly German territories and the far greater prize of international recognition sat as a comfortable weight in the Emperor's pocket.
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