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Japanese peace treaty

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  Posted by U1969296 (U1969296) on Friday, 30th December 2005

  Hi Guys
  If the Japanese would have attacked the Russian Mainland ports instead of Pearl Harbour how would the events turned out. I suppose it was essential that the U.S.A. entered the war. Briton alone could not hold back the Japanese.
  Any theories

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  Posted by Ijeomaodigwe (U2790958) on Friday, 30th December 2005

  This changed the outcome of the war very much. If Japan had attacked Russia, Germany probably would have been called in to the conflict forcing Russia to fight on two fronts. Russia could have fought them both off for probably 3 years, but eventually they would have been exhausted out their supplies and men.

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  Posted by Erik Lindsay (U231970) on Saturday, 31st December 2005

  Considering what Stalin had done to his armies - particularly his top commanders - there's a very good chance that Japan and Germany would have been victorious. Stalin's grip on the nation was not so strong that he couldn't have been deposed Γ‰ in fact, he ran to the Black Sea hideaway, certain he was going to be assassinated, when it looked like Germany would take Moscow. Without the troops and commanders from Siberia and with the armies fighting thousands of miles apart on two fronts, the US and the rest of the Americas might today be confronted by a Germany-controlled Europe and a Japanese-dominated eastern Asia -- not a pleasant prospect.
  
  Had Japan not attacked US possessions in the far east, IMO Roosevelt would have had a very tough time trying to convince the American people to go to war merely to help Imperialistic nations (Holland, France, Britain, etc) to hold onto their unwilling colonies. The Pearl Harbour attack may have been a tactical victory for the Japanese, but I think, strategically, it was a military disaster of monumental proportions. It brought America into a war they didn't want, and it brought them in with blood in their eye. They had been attacked without warning by a people whom most of them viewed with contempt. They wanted to destroy them completely.

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  Posted by U1969296 (U1969296) on Saturday, 31st December 2005

  The of course if the Japanese wear successful in attacking the eastern Russian coast they would have had access to the oil in that area?
  
  And then would the Americans still be Isolationists?

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