Why Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor? (Documentary)

Get Nebula with 40% off annual subscription with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/realtimehistory Watch Red Atoms on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/redatoms Nebula Lifetime Membership: https://go.nebula.tv/lifetime?ref=rea... December 7, 1941: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor shocked the world and brought the US into the Second World War. But why did the Japanese resort to such an attack against a powerful rival and what did it have to do with the Japanese war in China? » SUPPORT US   / realtimehistory   https://nebula.tv/realtimehistory » THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Dorn, Frank, The Sino-Japanese War: From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor, 1937-41, (New York, NY : MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1974) Evans, David C, & Peattie, Mark R., Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941, (Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, 1997) Frank, Richard B., Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937 – May 1942, (London : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2021) Henshaw, Jonathan, Smith, Craig A. & Smith, Norman (eds), Translating the Occupation: The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931-45, (Vancouver : UBC Press, 2021) Hsu Long-hsuen & Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), (Taipei : Chung Wu Publishing Co., 1971) Lindsay, Michael, The Unknown War: North China 1937-1945, (London : Bergström & Boyle Books Limited, 1975) MacKinnon, Stephen R., “The Tragedy of Wuhan, 1938”, Modern Asian Studies, Volume 30, Issue 4, (October 1996) MacKinnon, Stephen R., Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees and the Making of Modern China, (Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2008) Mitter, Rana, China’s War with Japan 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival, (London : Penguin Books Ltd, 2013) Paine, Sarah C. M., The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949, (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012) Sih, Paul K. T. (ed.), Nationalist China During the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, (Hicksville, NY : Exposition Press, 1977) Yôichi Hirama, “Japanese Naval Preparations for World War ll”, Naval War College Review, Volume 44, Number 2, (1991) »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Mark Newton Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Above Zero Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Toni Steller, Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Mark Newton Fact checking: Florian Wittig, Jesse Alexander Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster Contains licensed material by getty images and AP Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 Music Library: Epidemic Sound All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2023