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The German-Japanese Alliance In World War II

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In the final project, I will explain the basis of the German-Japanese alliance in World War II., in which the two nations affirm a shared hostility to the Communists. This was also later the basis of the Tripartite between Germany, Japan, and Italy. The Three Power pact of 1940, seemed less concerned with sending a campaign against world Communism, and more with dividing the world into sovereign forms of interest
The specific roles of Germany and Japan during world war II seemed identical on the surface. Both possessed a combination of economic and racist ideology. But the countries’ motivation was fundamentally expressed quite differently. Both Germany and Japan engaged in large-scale territorial conquests in the years leading up to World …show more content…

Japan was victorious in both wars, and won the attention of the world as the first industrialized Asian power to hold its own against a European nation. China and Japan had been at war for several decades before the beginning of World War II. They fought over control of Korea before the turn of the 20th century, and thought aggressive colonization program Japan became a more expansionist power in the region. Various incidents in the 1930s led the two powers to begin fighting the Second Sino-Japanese War in July 1937; this fighting persisted until the end of World War II in 1945. After Germany’s defeat of WW1, they faced numerous sanctions, military limitations and other punishments from the Treaty of Versailles. These limitations would delay their overall economic growth. Hitler and other Nazi officials in Germany supported the idea of lebensraum, the natural living space necessary for what they considered the racially superior German people. Under this doctrine, Hitler declared that German territory needed to be expanded through occupation of surrounding nations. Japan’s leaders held similar ideology in the racial superiority of the Japanese and began territorial …show more content…

Japan also felt they needed to expand into Asia, soon after the expansion the United States began an economic embargo against Japan for the expansion into China. Common hate for the United States brought Germany and Japan together. However, Japan knew Hitler’s goal was to lay claim to the West and Japan wanted to continue to claim Asia. They both believed they would achieve their goals if they became Allies.
Japan and Germany are medium-sized powers with some, but not an overriding, influence on global developments. They owe much of their postwar successes to strategies of balancing interests and objectives between many and diverse partners.
Both countries might successfully apply the lessons they have learned to tackle the new tasks. The BBC’s poll results are not the global response to German and Japanese friendly smiles. They reflect German and Japanese soft power.
This soft power is based on the trust that both countries managed to establish in the seven decades since the war. It is a trust in the competence of both countries to solve

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