If the Japanese hadn't attacked the Pearl Harbor base in the United States, would World War II have been lost?

194 1 year, 65438+February 7th, is definitely a day worth remembering in the world history. On this day, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The first time the United States dropped a bomb from an enemy country, the United States officially declared war on Japan. This was a major turning point in the Second World War. From this day on, the history of World War II was different from the past.

At that time, everyone knew that Japan and the United States were not in the same order of magnitude in terms of comprehensive national strength. When Japan goes to war with the United States, it is absolutely an egg hitting a stone.

Therefore, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, China, then Chiang Kai-shek, immediately expressed condolences to the United States and promised to stand with the Americans and fight Japanese aggression to the death. At that time, the broad masses of Japanese people, especially those who were wavering and had no confidence in resisting Japan, strengthened their determination to resist Japan. Why? It is because the United States and Japan are at war that Japan is bound to fail.

Everyone in China knows why Japan wants to go to war with the United States.

Japan had to attack Pearl Harbor for several reasons.

1939, Japan was in short supply, and a nationwide rationing system was implemented. In enemy-occupied areas such as China, the policy of supporting wars with wars was implemented. The shortage of resources forced Japan to occupy Southeast Asia as soon as possible. And the United States is its stumbling block.

Southeast Asia, especially the oil-rich Dutch East India, is included in the "Greater East Asia Glory Circle" designed by Japan, and if you want to get this place, you must go through the Philippines of the United States.

The most important thing is that the United States imposed an embargo on strategic materials on Japan, and it also strongly supported Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore, Japan believes that its desire to dominate Asia cannot be realized without hitting the United States, and war with the United States is inevitable. Since we want to fight, we must strike first.

On the one hand, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor attempted to defeat the American Pacific Fleet in one fell swoop, and on the other hand, it temporarily neglected Southeast Asia. While attacking Pearl Harbor, Japan landed in the Philippines and launched an all-round attack on Southeast Asia.

Facts have proved that Japan's sneak attack plan is indeed successful, but this success is a tactical success, not a strategic success.

The United States failed tactically, but succeeded strategically. Up to now, there is still a view in the history circle that President Roosevelt, the supreme commander of the United States at that time, had long known the plan of Japanese sneak attack, but in order to get the support of American nationals for his participation in World War II, he still let Japan sneak attack. So from a big strategic point of view, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was a wrong choice. Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, as a country deeply influenced by pragmatism, the voices of "isolationism" and "peace" in the United States were so high that even the prestigious President Roosevelt could not reverse it. However, the Pearl Harbor incident aroused the unity of the American people, and the voices against the United States' participation in the war and the expansion of the government vanished in an instant.

Then US Secretary of State Hull later recalled: "The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor for their own benefit. However, this sudden attack immediately United the American people. Therefore, this is also the mistake of the Japanese. "

US Secretary of the Army Stimson also said: "Because of the Pearl Harbor incident, American indecision finally disappeared. ..... because of this, we Americans are United. "

Since then, the United States, as the largest economic power in the capitalist world, has devoted all its political, economic and military forces to the Second World War. The unprecedented strength of the anti-fascist camp in the world has given people of all countries fighting fascism greater hope for victory and doomed Japan's ultimate failure.

From the above analysis, we can see that both China and the United States are good at grand strategies, while Japan is only good at tactics and lacks strategy. Perhaps, the geographical environment has caused the difference between a big country and a small country, so up to now, some people in Japan are still studying what the historical development would be like if Japan had not made the choice of attacking Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately, history cannot repeat itself, and the gains and losses of the attack on Pearl Harbor can only be discussed on paper.

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