© First, if the Battle of Moscow was one of the turning points of World War II, then would Japan pinning down the Siberian reinforcements have crippled the Soviet counteroffensive? AP Photo / At least the Siberian troops were good, but in 1941, they were at the end of a long supply line from western Russia that would have been disrupted by the German capture of factories and resources. In an "As strange as it may seem," the journalist wrote, "the key reason preventing Japan from implementing its militaristic plans against the USSR was the pact concluded with the Soviet leadership by Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka" in April 1941. © 2020 Sputnik. They would have needed help from the U.S. Navy to do so. Germany came close to capturing Stalingrad and the Caucasus oil fields before the Soviets launched their devastating counteroffensive in November 1942; would sending forces to stop, or at least delay, a Japanese advance have meant no Stalingrad catastrophe for Germany?The ultimate question for a 1941 Russo-Japanese War may actually be psychological. An attack by Japan in the fall of 1942 was quite possible, since the USSR essentially had no defenses deployed on its eastern front, and the destruction of its mfg capacity would have doomed the USSR to the residual Nazi attack, and would have cost Japan very little, assuming the US had not advanced in the Pacific after Midway. This became painfully obvious to Hitler during the 1941–42 Battle of Moscow, when the Red Army’s well-trained and well-equipped Siberian divisions reinforced the battered Soviet armies defending Moscow. Attacking under these circumstances would mean putting themselves in the same situation as the Nazis after June 6, 1944, "i.e. In two weeks, Imperial Japan lost 677,000 troops, including 84,000 killed or wounded, with over 593,000 troops taken prisoner. Hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops would have to be thrown into battle at once; they would have to be fed, dressed, washed, would need medical treatment and would have to be evacuated when injured." © Yes and no. Peace was not possible until one side or the other was conquered. © Finally, in December 1941, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and awoke the American sleeping giant, any prospect for an attack against the Soviet Union was closed for good. "Finally, in December 1941, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and awoke the American sleeping giant, any prospect for an attack against the Soviet Union was closed for good. Consider this: if Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor, would isolationist America would have declared war on Japan? This war was no cakewalk for the Imperial Army.

Like most great what-if questions, the answer depends on the assumptions you make. stuck between the Soviet hammer and the American anvil." The Soviet Union could lose Vladivostok (even though much American Lend-Lease came through that port), but Moscow was a different matter.
Spared from battle with the Americans, the Imperial Navy could have employed naval gunfire and its elite, long-range Zero fighter squadrons to ensure air superiority for a drive on the vital port of Vladivostok. Would the Axis Win World War II If Japan Attacked Russia Instead of America? "One might say that a neutrality pact is just a piece of paper, like the one the Nazis signed and then cynically ignored. But what if the Soviet Union had also faced a two-front war? At the least, a Russo-Japanese war would have diverted Soviet resources away from Germany and thus prolonged the European war, though perhaps America would have found Japan less difficult to subdue.Had Japan declared war on the Soviet Union in 1941, the East might have been Red, as the "In Evdokimov's view, Japanese diplomats' probing for the prospects for a peace treaty between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in both 1941 and 1942, while unrealistic, indicated that Tokyo probably realized that without such peace, it and its partners in the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis would be doomed to defeat. On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union officially declared war on Japan, flooding 1.6 million troops into Manchuria, an area of 600,000 square miles in the North-East of China. It’s just a really bad idea, as Germany can attest. U.S. history has overlooked it. One of the great what-ifs of the Second World War is what would have happened if Japan had attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, when the Soviet Union seemed at defeat’s door as the German panzers drove deep into Russia.The traditional narrative is that in mid-1941, Japanese leaders were split between the What would have if Japan had struck north after all, attacking Russia from the east while Germany relentlessly advanced from the west? As it bravely but ineptly demonstrated against the Finns and Germans, the Red Army in 1941 had been devastated by Stalin’s purges. "The theater [consisted] of endless, nearly impenetrable forests, which would have forced offensive operations to take place along the Trans-Siberian railway, very convenient for defenders and very difficult for the attackers. The Red Army suffered four million casualties in 1941; it had enough problems attempting to build new divisions and control the ones it already had in western Russia, without having to deal with a Siberian front. Sputnik /

Attacking under these circumstances would mean putting themselves in the same situation as the Nazis after June 6, 1944, "i.e. The German armies in front of Moscow were depleted, exhausted, unsupplied and freezing. Are you sure you want to delete your Sputniknews.com account?Your account has been deleted! "By 1941, Japan was bogged down in bloody battles with red China, led by Mao Zedong, and the Kuomintang. Yet many of the Soviet armies at Moscow were hastily thrown together, inexperienced, poorly led and still struggling to regain their balance from the German onslaught.


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