Why didn't Japan Attack the Soviet Union in World War 2?

Why didn't Japan Attack the Soviet Union in World War 2?

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Otterstedt, Charles. Kwantung Army and the Nomonhan Incident.

Coox, Alvin. Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia.

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[raulroopchand]

Admiral Yamamoto was against attacking the US because he actually studied at Harvard University in the US, was naval attaché at the Japanese embassy in Washington DC, and had travelled extensively throughout the US. So he knew that America was industrially and militarily powerful and that Japan could not win a protracted war with them. Ultimately he was overruled by others in the Japanese High command who underestimated the US and didn't listen to him.

[juantamayo]

Japan: "Russia is too powerful for us, we should fight an easier enemy"

*Atacks the US*

[theapocalypse]

Germany : *Attacks the USSR
Japan : I will pretend I didn't see that.

[ymbsome]

Germany: just woken a sleeping giant.
Japan: "how about another one?"

[malickfan]

The USA issued an oil embargo on Japan once they occupied French Indochina, thereby cutting them off from about 85 percent of their oil income. In order to continue their war with China, Japan needed to get oil from the Dutch East Indies. Thus, the “go south” option was picked because they really didn’t have any other option at that point. I personally think that they would have attacked the USSR at some point had the USA not issued its embargo.

[onlyfacts]

Axis can't seem to coordinate their efforts to attack in sync in a team based game

[tvgerbil]

There was another reason for Japan being so keen to have peace with the Soviets in 1941. Japan was already at war with China for nearly 4 years by then. Although Japan had been winning, it couldn't wrap up the war there. Over a million Japanese troops were already committed in China and far more were needed. From 1937 to 1941, the Soviets were the Chinese only allies and had been supplying arms and airplanes to the Chinese. The deal the Japanese reached with the Soviets in 1941 was for the Soviets to cease helping the Chinese so that Japan could gain final victory in China. The Chinese, deprived of help from the Soviets from 1941, turned to the Americans. The Americans then started their embargo on Japan in 1941 and that became the catalyst for Japan to make its moves against the Americans.

[jacksonmacpherson]

One of the biggest reasons why, and something very few pop historians grasp is that the Axis were allied basically only on paper. Prior to the 2nd world war, Germany traded more with the USSR than with Japan and conducted more training exercises with them. Germany even actively hindered Japans war effort by training the KMT's elite 88th army.

[naveennidhurshan]

The real reason is, they feared that the Soviets had the mighty Bob Semple on their side.

[spassocane]

Germany: "guys I'm going to attack the USSR"

Italy: "cool man, I'll send troops"

Japan: *seen 5:35 p.m.*

[John-rnnm]

They did, they lost hard. That's why the Army was sidelined and the Southern expansion (European Southeast Asia) was chosen instead of the Northern expansion (Inner Mongolia, Soviet Union).

[liammckenna]

Iv been asking this question for so long why one never attacked the other thank you so much for making this video!!!!

[brandonarmienti]

Two reasons 1 the Battle of khalkin Gol showed the Japanese the Russians weren't pushovers and so made no more plans against the USSR and Japan shifted its focused on Southeast Asia. 2 they were planning for war against the Americans and unlike the Germans they were smart enough not to pick a fight with both the USSR and USA even though they lost anyway.

[FPSGamer]

Japan: The Soviet Union is too strong, we could never oppose them!

Also Japan: Let’s take on the British Empire and United States at the same time we’re invading China, it’ll be simple!

[fem]

Probably because they
1. Overextended getting destroyed and china still lived
2. They had a job aggression pact which they honored unlike Germany but the Soviet didn't after Germany died

[schatzkammerein]

Because the Soviet Union already whopped Japan at a battle known as Khalkin Gol, and that was enough for the IJA when they were already focused on fighting the Chinese.

[rlm]

Japan is like that friend that does nothing in a school project

[Hellstona]

Japan loved to overestimate the effects of training, morale, and self-sacrifice. In fact in Khalkin-Gol, Japanese infantrymen, gunners, and pilots were qualitatively better. But all that was steamrolled by Zhukov and his colleagues' expertise in land operations and maneuver warfare.

[drunkenlancer]

In any relationship the key is communication. That is why the Axis were poor lovers.

[nassauguy]

Japan could not wage a two front war. Moreover, its forces had suffered a beating down by Soviet troops in an isolated border skirmish in East Asia a few years earlier, causing Japan to realize that this was NOT the Russia of 1905.