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During World War II, the Japanese army could have attacked the Soviet Union with the Germans, so why bother the American army?

Yes, at the beginning of World War II, the Germans swept across Europe with their powerful steel torrent and approached the gates of Moscow. If the Japanese army can unite with the Germans at this time and attack the Soviet Union as a superpower on the east and west fronts, then Japan and Germany can eat the Soviet Union in one fell swoop, thus realizing their fantasy that the fascist axis countries share the world.

But in fact, Japan and Germany simply have no ability to attack the Soviet Union as a superpower, especially Japan. In terms of strategic policy, Japan changed its strategy of "going north" to "going south" and launched wars in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In the end, it avoided the entanglement with the Soviet Union in the Far East, but it was strangled by the powerful US Navy in the Pacific Ocean.

As for whether it can be said that the Japanese southward policy cannot provoke the US military, it is obviously impossible. Whether in the military strategy of going south or going north, Japan has a tough battle to fight with the Soviet Union and the United States. Because the Japanese army's northward invasion will infringe the interests of the Soviet Union in the Far East, while the Japanese army's southward invasion of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific will hinder the interests of European and American countries headed by Britain and the United States in Asia.

Japan and Germany attacked the Soviet Union? Obviously impossible.

1940 65438+In February, after several months of drafting, the German "Barbarossa" plan for attacking the Soviet Union was finally drawn up. After tearing up the Soviet-German non-aggression treaty, Germany marched into the Soviet Union. 194 1 In July, the German army at that time was divided into three army groups to attack the Soviet Union, namely the Central Army, the Northern Army and the Southern Army. The three army groups all advanced by leaps and bounds, advancing 300-600 kilometers to the Soviet Union in three directions.

But Hitler thought Kiev was a threat to the northern wing of the group army, so it must be annihilated by the southern army. But in fact, the southern army lacked troops, and most of them were concentrated in the central army of Marshal Bok. If we want to ensure the German oil supply and support the war by fighting, should we concentrate all our forces to occupy Kiev first or continue to occupy Moscow?

To this end, Hitler and his generals argued endlessly on this issue. The German generals at the front, such as Bok and guderian, thought that they should concentrate all their firepower to win Moscow in one fell swoop. However, Hitler thought that Ukraine should be captured first. After all, Ukraine was then known as the "granary" of the Soviet Union. At the same time, Ukraine is rich in natural resources, and the natural resources such as oil and coal produced can provide guarantee for Germany's protracted war. Finally, after a month of discussion and dispute, Hitler and the German generals finally decided to withdraw the Central Army to the southwest and concentrate on capturing Kiev.

At the headquarters of the Soviet Union, Stalin did not want to hand over this treasure land of Ukraine to the Germans, nor did he listen to zhukov's suggestion and withdraw the southwest army of the Soviet Union, so as not to lose his advantage. At this time, zhukov was dismissed because of his contradiction with Stalin. In the end, both the Soviet Union and Germany chose Kiev as the venue, which will be a confrontation between the Soviet Union and Germany.

In this battle, both sides invested a lot of fresh troops into the battle, but in the end, the battle of Kiev ended with the annihilation of most of the 5 th, 2 nd1,37 th, 26 th, 40 th and 38 th armies of the Soviet Union, and the German army also hit the Soviet Union hard in this war.

When Hitler decided to raze Leningrad and Moscow after the Battle of Kiev, it was July of 194 1 year, when the Soviet Union was in summer and winter was not yet near. But when the Germans attacked Leningrad, Hitler also met his nemesis-zhukov. Then, because the winter in Moscow came a month earlier than usual in 194 1 year, the low temperature at this time had already frozen the fuel and lubricating oil of German Tanqueray, what's more, the German soldiers at this time didn't resist the cold winter clothes in Russia at all, and finally Hitler began to repeat the mistakes of France like Napoleon.

The progress of the German army reached its limit at the beginning of 194 1 12. The vanguard troops have advanced to the outskirts of Moscow and even seen the spire of the Kremlin. However, hundreds of thousands of Stalin still came from Siberia to support his troops, and these troops all had good winter equipment and materials. Then, the United States declared war on the Axis countries in February, 194 1. Since the German army began to attack Leningrad, the battlefield situation has undergone earth-shaking changes in just a few months, because the German military production capacity at this time could not cope with the long-term foreign war.

If we look at the earlier confrontation between the Japanese army and the Soviet Union, we can understand why Japan finally adopted the offensive strategy of "going south" instead of "going north". 1May, 9391-1September, 939 16, a large-scale war broke out between the Soviet Union and Japan at Nomenham, the border between Manchuria and Mongolia at that time. The two sides did not confront each other as heads, but represented "puppet Manchukuo" and "puppet Manchukuo". After the war, the Soviet Union and Japan formally concluded an agreement on1June 9, 940 respectively.

In this war, the Soviet Union defeated the Japanese army with overwhelming superiority. In the general attack on August 20th, the Soviet Union invested 524 tanks, 385 armored vehicles, 542 artillery pieces and 500 planes. In the whole battle of Nomenham, the advantages of the Soviet army over the Japanese army were 7 pairs 1 tanks and armored vehicles, 6 pairs 1 artillery and 3 pairs 1 troops. For the Japanese army, under the indiscriminate bombing of armored units and artillery planes of the Soviet Red Army, the gap between weapons and battlefield resources was wide, which eventually led the Japanese army to retreat on its own after running out of ammunition in July.

Although Germany and Japan are axis countries, it is really difficult for them to attack the Soviet Union from both east and west. The battle of Nomenham in the Soviet Union also dealt a heavy blow to the aggressive ambition and arrogance of Japanese imperialism. In the end, the Japanese government was forced to change its strategic decision of "going north" to "going south" to Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

The change of Japan's strategic decision made the Soviet Union avoid facing Germany and Japan at the same time. Finally, the Soviet Union transferred 20 Asian divisions deployed in the Far East to Europe to resist the German attack, thus reversing the situation in the European battlefield, and the original myth of Hitler's unbeaten was shattered. In the face of the victory of the defending war in Moscow, from1942 65438+1October 8, the Soviet Red Army turned to a nationwide all-round attack.

For the Japanese government, the implementation of the strategic decision of "going south" will definitely affect the interests of countries such as Britain and the United States in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Therefore, it is impossible for Japan not to provoke the United States in World War II, unless the Japanese army changes its strategic decision and concentrates all Lu Haijun's forces to continue to invade the Soviet Union.

194 1 In July, after Japan occupied southern zhina, the U.S. government led by U.S. President Roosevelt began to impose economic sanctions on Japan, cutting off the supply line of Japanese raw materials in one fell swoop. At this time, the Japanese government was also faced with a dilemma, either agreeing to the request of the United States to withdraw its troops from the Asian continent or forcing the United States to lift the embargo.

Or occupy British Malaya and dutch east indies to open up new supply lines, but this will definitely provoke an armed conflict between Japan and these countries. In the end, the Japanese government chose the latter of the two decisions, and this decision has already represented that Japan does not agree with the requirements put forward by the US government, so the war between the two countries is inevitable. What's more, for an island country with scarce resources like Japan, without resources, there would be no basic conditions for a long-term foreign war.