Is United State of America the bad guys in World War 2?

Question

to me i think it was the american that make japan into a military power in world war 2. if i remember correctly, the US was the one who came into Japan and want Japan to be like the West, and they used their military to make the Japanese open up to the West. So if we were to blame on who started it all was the US. If the US would have leave japan alone in the pass then there wouldn't be any "PEARL HARBOR" at all.

Give me you thoughts?

Answer 1

Japan attacked America for way different reasons than what you are saying. You need to read your history books again because right now, it seems like your dyslexic.  

Answer 2

Yeah, definitely a revisionist history. I advise you to study grammar, composition and the English language before further dwelling on an issue as deep as this. Suffice it to say, if our HEROIC forefathers didn't fight WWII, we'd be living under fascism and speaking German right now.

Answer 3

And Japan signed the Decleration of Independance along with Tom Clancy and Rosie O'Donell.

Answer 4

You got that part really wrong.

It was Japan, Germany and Italy that formed "axis" alliance and started WW II. Japan invaded and conquered china and half of asia at that.

Finally Japan made a mistake and attacked USA in pearl harbor.

That was 2 years after WW II started and in general US didn't make Japan into military power.

Before that , 19-20th centuries, Japan did learn western military science from many countries.

Answer 5

For god's sake grow up you idiot

Answer 6

There are several things wrong with your understanding of WWII and the US involvement.

1. Japan's military presence had nothing to do with the US. Even BEFORE Hitler started marching into Poland, Japan began a slaughter in China known as the "Rape of Nanking." Look it up. For absolutely no reason, they went into China and actually killed more Chinese than Japanese that died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

2. The US did not go into Japan, nor did they "want Japan to be like the West." Where did you get that concept from? Post WWII, we helped them get their economy back on track by teaching them our efficient assembly lines. The Japanese were so intricate that a grain of sand would clog up their rifles.

3. Pearl Harbor was an unprovoked attack. We did not go into Japan. We were supplying them with oil and steel, but after the Rape of Nanking, we stopped supplying them with these materials.

4. The US does NOT colonize other countries. It has never been a practice of ours to create colonies. That is a British, French, and Roman practice, but not one of the US. We do attack other countries, but if you know what "colonize" means, you will understand that's not what we do.

5. The US did not make Japan strong in WWII. However, you are saying that the US made Japan strong in WWII then got mad when Japan attacked them? Uh...even though you're literally making up history right now, even that doesn't make sense. Of course we would be upset when a country we helped attacked us. The Japanese and n***s actually had an agreement to not attack each other, so that would put them on the same side as the n***s, and thus qualify as an "Axis" power. We went into Japan AFTER WWII to help them get their economy back on track, not BEFORE.

I guess this is why you think the US was the "bad guy" in WWII: you have absolutely no idea about what happened or the order these things happened in. Also, I wouldn't call a country who decimated the n***s AND THEN gave Europe free money to rebuild itself a "bad guy" (it's called the Marshall Plan, look it up).

Did you just not pay attention in school, or are you so enamored with anime that you are re-writing history in your head?

Answer 7

and the american navy just so happen to have taken out a bunch of their newest ships from pearl harbor the day it was bombed.  

Answer 8

Maybe it was the European nations fault when they force Germany(US took no part) to sign the Treaty of Versailles. This cause Germany to want revenge for the suffering.

So the way you put it, everyone on the Allies side are the bad guys.

We should have just let n**i-Germany take over Europe and kill the Jews and others.

Maybe we should et Japan take over the Pacific and massarce more than the 15 million they already killed.

EDIT: If you form an alliance with Hitler, your part of the Axis. And if you think Japan is all innocent with world conquest, ou're wrong. you know how many times Japan tried to invade Korea?

And comon, just look at Europe colonizing Africa. At least the US open the Japanese into the modern world(after WW2). Look at Africa, European nation boardered them up together which cause many conflicts and genocides. And you know how they get diamonds? And if we never had modernized Japan, there would have never been a Sony, PS3, video games, cars,etc..

Answer 9

No.  So now young people have decided to revise history to say the entire WWII was the Americans fault.  I don't know how delusional our younger generation is going to get, but once you destroy our Western world, you deserve everything you get.  Just let me be dead and buried by that time.

Answer 10

The United States did not make Japan into a powerful militaristic country. It was started by a man named Sadao Araki, who mixed together the ancient bushido code and European fascist ideas (like Hitler’s and Mussolini’s) to create a movement of totalitarianism, militarism and expansionism. Plus, the Japanese did not get their idea of empire from the small American empire. They got it from the British Empire, the biggest empire the world has ever seen. The British controlled India and many other colonies around the world. They were the ones to look up to and envy when dreaming about an imperial nation, not the United States with just a couple of islands.

Also, World War II did not start when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. It started in 1937 when Japan attacked China to gain her resources, so they could extend their Japanese empire and build a new Asian order led by the so-called Japanese “master race.” The Chinese tried to fight them back, which cost them 4,000,000 of their soldiers. n**i Germany killed 10,000,000 Russian civilians in WWII. Imperial Japan killed 16,000,000 innocent Chinese civilians, because the Japanese considered the Chinese racially inferior and sub-human. Koreans were used as slave labor, and the Filipinos were treated just as badly.

Answer 11

The actions of President Fillmore did indeed force Japan to open up it's closed society to trade. It also deeply humiliated Japan, that a western power was so easily able to force their will upon them.

It was from this humiliation that drove Japan to modernize and westernize. However, the United States had nothing to do with the 1937 invasion of China and the rape of Nanjing.

Many criticize the US for its subsequent oil embargo on Japan, but what was the US to do? Allow Japan to continue their bloody march through China?

Answer 12

The west didnt colonize Japan idiot, Japan's emperor Meiji wanted to modernize the nation and opened up to western technologies. This was in the late 1800's. They were successful. Japan became industrialized very quickly. This is called the "Meiji Restoration"

Fast forward to the 1930's, Japan was led by a military regime and expanded into the asian world by force. They were also secret allies with n**i Germany. Japan and the US were trading partners. Japan relied on the US for metal used in war planes. The same war planes that were menacing the Asian population. When the US cut off shipments to the Japanese, they began plotting against the US because they knew that the US would eventually enter the war and help the British.

I think you should never say this stuff out loud because someone will hurt you. America wasnt even  concerned with the rest of the world back then. We only minded our own business back then, so to say that WW2 is the US fault is just something a fool would say.

Answer 13

You do understand that WW2 encompassed more than the Pacific front right? You also understand that Japan did not attack the US for "revenge" right? Geez if you are going to troll, do it with little more intelligence. Happy trolling =).  

Answer 14

Well, if you're going to blame the United States for that (they got to Japan in 1854, a good 87 years before the bombing of Pearl Harbor), why not go back just 10 years earlier and blame the Dutch?  In 1844, William II of the Netherlands sent a message to Japan urging the country to open its doors.  They didn't show force, but they were the first ones there.

You can't blame the United States for Japan becoming what they became.  The United States was looking for a large sphere of influence early in its life to maybe challenge that of Britain's, and Japan was the major prize.  A United States-Japan alliance at that time would have meant almost complete, unchallenged control of the north Pacific Ocean.

It was only a matter of time until Japan opened up, whether it was of their own doing or at the bidding of someone else.  I can bet you that Britain would have tried for Japan if the United States couldn't get Japan.

Japan was part of the Axis because there was actually some sort of alliance between Germany and Japan in World War 2.  n**i Germany is THE definition of a global bad guy, and thus anybody allied with them is a bad guy, too.

Why not blame the Wright Brothers for Pearl Harbor?  If it wasn't for their first planes, the bombing would have been impossible.  And at least the Wright Brothers were more recent than Commodore Matthew Perry.

Answer 15

No.  Japan attacked Pearl Harbor did all the other things they did prior to the start or WWII because they got the idea that the Japanese Empire could rule the world.  If you read documents or watch films that the Japanese Empire put out prior and during WWII you'd see that their goal was world domination.  It was the same goal and purpose that Hitler had for his Third Reigt for Germany and that Musolinni had for Italy.  All three countries leaders decided to make an attempt to rule the world at the same time.  That's what made it a world wide war.  Germany, Italy and Japan formed a pact that was called the Axis during that time.  If the Axis powers had won the war, then for a time, each of the three would have ruled a portion of the world.  Eventually, one of the three, probably Japan (especially if it got China) would have overthrown the other two and ruled the world.  

The United States had given up on the idea of having any kind of empire at all prior to WWI.  Actually, it was other countries (including Japan) who were very eager to mimic the U.S. and be as much like it as they could because the U.S. was the richest, most prosperous country in the whole world by the beginning of the 20th century.  The U.S. never forced Japan to adopt it's ways.  Japan did it because they wanted to compete with the U.S. in the developing world economy.  They realized that if they stayed stuck in their feudal past, they would be a poor country by comparison to the U.S. and much of Western Europe.  

The "bad guys" were those in the n**i party who set up concentration camps that killed thousands of civilians whose only "crime" was being a certain race or of not agreeing with n**i policies.  The bad guys were those in all three of the Axis armies who tortured and killed captured enemy troops instead of following the Geneva Convention's requirements for proper care of POW's.  

I don't know where you got your ideas, but it wasn't from anything historicly accurate.

Answer 16

Japans reasons for entering the war are a bit unclear. More to do with their emporers ego than any thing else. They blamed American political aggression for their attack but that doesn't explain invading every other country around them.

We Aussies are quietly gratefull The US entered the war or else we'd be eating a lot more sushi and rice right now. The actuall plan for Japanese invation here in Australia was to draw a line through the middle of Australia and try and defend south of that line.    

Answer 17

you've got to be kidding........