Question

How did the Japanese plan to catch the European colonial powers and the United States by surprise?

Answer 1

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They planned massive attacks on British and Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia and on American outposts in the Pacific—at the same time. ... He would then seize islands that were not well defended but were closer to Japan.

Answer 2

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So, basically the Japanese did friendship with hitler a liitle before the second world war. Hitler even did friendship with Italy at the same time.As we all know that Hitler was the ruler of Germany .

So he formed an alliance with the three countries i.e Germany , Italy , Japan. Hitler during the time of the second world war was a man with great power. So both Italy and Japan thought they were in profit at the time of the second world war because of the support of Hitler i.e Germany. Germany and Italy were busy fighting the the second world war in Europe with the European countries. Whereas Japan with German support started annexing the territories of the different countries in the East. Japan even thretened the U.S.A that the would attack their country. U.S.A at that time had prevented themselves from entering the second world war remebering to the damages which were faced by them at the time of the first world war. They did not think that Japan would do anything to them because U.S.A was a much powerful nation than Japan at that time also. So they did not take the Japanese words seriously.Gradually during the second world war Germany further extended a huge support to Japan for further expansion of their territory in terms of ammunition and jets. So the Japanese made a plan to attack a Naval base in America which would cause them a lot of damage. This decison was taken very secretly by Japan. So one fine day the Japanese dropped air missiles on a U.S Naval base. U.S.A were not all prepared for this attack and this attack tottaly suprised them. This led to the entry of U.S.A in the second world war. The second war ended after U.S.A dropped atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan