Pacific Empires: Japan vs. USA - The Path to Pearl Harbor - WWII - Part 1 - Extra History

Did you know that at one point, people actually thought that Japanese-American residents of Oahu helped the Japanese up to and during the Pearl Harbor raid?

Woodrow Wilson was incredibly racist, and that's a big part of why the US government of the time opposed the proviso on racial equality. One of many things Wilson ruined.

i thought that perry was a commodore, not an admiral

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I 100% understand for artistic and story telling reasons why you put midway island SO CLOSE to hawaii but seeing it still got a sudden laugh out of me. considering its almost at the halfway point between hawaii and japan its a little jarring to see it so close to hawaii

When it comes to the USA taking Hawaii you didn't mention the 1890 Mckinley Tariff Act that made sending sugar to America expensive. The entire Hawaiian island's economy was in economic freefall. They had their own great depression and most people were unemployed.

Thank you for going in depth about this, I don't think I learned this in school at all. Only from my grandparents and mom.

I love how the US was actually the villain all along

Interesting fact : King Kalakua recognises himself as a Malay and goes out to see the whole world to have a better understanding of travelling

Y'all should do a series dedicated to the annexation of Hawaii. You guys are literally the only channel who does Pacific history and I know you will do a great job of it. If extra history videos are books, the last time we saw the Kingdom of Hawaii was them signing up by the hundreds to fight in the American Civil War and in this series they are annexed.

"Underdeveloped" the classic euphemism for "sensitive and ecologically important biome".

I love that the series on the Sengoku Jidai perfectly dovetails into the series on the Fall of the Samurai, which then flows into the series on Japanese Militarism, before concluding with the lead-up to Pearl Harbor. You should do a series on the Plaza Accord and the Tokyo Asset Bubble.

Oregon was a bit of trouble. Another channel mentioned one of the border disputes. A War, in which the only casualty was a pig.

Remember that many of the islands that America portrayed Japan as capturing in it's quest for empire were actually GIVEN to them at the end of WW1.

oh boy, if you thought things were bad at Pearl Harbor, it was much worse in the actual Asiatic fleet

You forgot to mention that king kalakaua was forced to sign the 1887 contitution at beyonet point, hence the name "beyonet constitution."

"Links to our completed series that are backstory to this one in the description" my ass.

Do y’all have a podcast? I see one in Spotify but it hasn’t been updated since 2019. You could do what economics explained does and upload the audio from videos to the podcast

Evil imperialistic expansionists. If Americans weren't acting like dicks, Japan wouldn't join the Axis.

nice to see the actual history of this be covered

This is what makes life worth it

Philippines without palawan sure is cursed but nonetheless great video

I wonder if they'll mention the fact that there is a de-classified document predating Pearl Harbor composed and submitted by a US General in which he details a 10-point plan for provoking a Japanese attack which was subsequently followed to the letter. The US wanted the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor. And not only did they want it to happen, they expected it. And not only did they expect it, the caused it.

Great video. Thoroughly researched and presented with style and humour.

Damn this channel has only gotten better in the past 7 years, not just consistency but improvement at an insane speed, Very Very Well made

The outros have been getting longer and more annoying lately. Makes watching these a pain in the ass

Spanish American War? Never heard of it

So pearl harbor Was planed like the Mexican American war?

YEAH EXTRA HISTORY HELL YEAH

Filipino American war 🥱 this spark the cause of Filipinos to collaborate to Japan...

It should be noted that at Versailles, while Japan's racial equality proposal was struck down by the US, the japanese in reality held a "equality for me, not for thee," attitude towards the Koreans and Chinese.

would it really be accurate to say the U.S. had/has an empire?

The Immigration Acts of 1917 and 1924 also played a role in worsening US-Japanese retaliations.

Why did you portray the missionaries as so benign and pleasant?

Crediting a general for "ending" another countries "isolation" is pretty messed up.

Nice episode.

Btw, not a good idea to use someone as Sarkeesian, a scammer and liar, as an example to promote Nebula 😅.

You have to address the way the Japanese military tortured American POWS.

The Nebula ad is pretty funny.

A history on Alaska would be nice. In many ways, it's not that well known.

Holy crap, in the ad at the end, you sound like Peter Griffin and Brian.

The Mormon expansion into the south Pacific is another interesting piece of American colonialism in the Pacific

I learned in college that the Washington Naval Treaty actually favored the Japanese. The British and US Navies needed to exert a presence in at least two oceans while the Japanese only needed a presence in one. Even during WWII the Japanese only reached into the Indian Ocean and not beyond. Given that reach the ratio in the Pacific was actually Britain 2.5, US 2.5, Japan 3. Obviously the US and Britain could redeploy portions of their fleet, but not without weakening it's presence in the Atlantic or elsewhere. With Britain an island nation with extensive colonies redeployment would be risky. That left the US whose major cities and ports were, at the time, on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast. And so the Washington Naval Treaty and the subsequent London treaty significantly benefited Japan. That didn't satisfy the militarists, but it gave Japan a significant head start.