Timeline for What information could a Time Traveller give to Nazi Germany to make them win WWII?
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 21:17 | comment | added | Keith Morrison | @Mark, it's more than that. They needed Malaysian and Indonesian resources, which meant they had to neutralize Singapore, but there's the Philippines. All that territory, including existing military bases and airfields in a perfect position to cut the supply lines between Japan and Southeast Asia. They needed to take that perfect flanking position out, but that means war with the US, so that means they had to take out the primary immediate American threat, the USN, and thus Pearl Harbor. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 2:33 | comment | added | Mark | The problem with Japan is that Japan needs to go to war. In mid-1941, the "ABCD embargo" cut off Japan's access to oil and steel, giving Japan two choices: retreat from China, or go to war with Britain -- and Japan isn't known for retreating. The attack on the United States was because Japanese leaders figured that any attack on Britain would bring the United States into the war on the British side anyways. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 2:16 | history | answered | dmoonfire | CC BY-SA 4.0 |