Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "The War in the Pacific: How WWII Changed the World Forever - Dr Robert Lyman" video.

  1. 6:15 Japan proposed a racial equality clause to the League of Nations' charter at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919: Proposal: The clause would have stated that all alien nationals of League member states should be treated equally and justly, regardless of race or nationality. Rejection: The European Allies, including the United States, rejected the clause.
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  2. 28:56 Japanese military were on hand when Billy Mitchell demonstrated that air power could sink Battleships. Japan started working on air power then. The US did not have B-29s until late in the war, it was the small, ironically named, B-25 Mitchell bomber which was first used to bomb Tokyo in 1942. I don't understand this guy's spin, or point of view?
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  3. 1930s Pan Am built a series of airports into the Pacific to reach the Philippines and then Hong Kong. Japanese understood this route could easily be turned into military bases.
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  4.  @rd1084  I agree, Japan earned a war, no question. However, the US, my country, was complicit in the Japanese military's justification for war. My father was in the Army Air Corp stationed in Adak awaiting a Japanese invasion early in 1942. I'm not making excuses, just giving context.
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  5.  @grannyannie2948  During WWII, the Japanese army had a secret biological warfare research unit in Manchuria called Unit 731. General Shiro Ishii was the lead physician of Unit 731; he reasoned that biological warfare must be dangerous and effective if it was banned by the Geneva protocol of 1925. He also noticed that the United States did not immediately sign the protocol; therefore, they must have biological weapons and were prepared to use them. The United States did sign the 1925 Geneva Protocols, but the US Senate refused to ratify the treaty.
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  6. Hiroshima was a military production site, one of the largest in Japan at the time. WTF?
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  7. Didn't mention the US 1924 Immigration Act which restricted the number of Japanese into the United States. The Japanese had previously been exempt from a similar act.
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  8. 5-5-3 Ratio agreement in the 1920s limited the number of Battleships Japan could build. Angered many of the younger military leaders. It was a slow, boiling pot. Who is this guy?
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  9. No, Hitler had an agreement with the Japanese and declared war on the US a few days after Pearl Harbor. Easy to fact check?
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  10. Read Mussolini's "Doctrine of Fascism 1932", it was indeed racist, and why even before that he went into Ethiopia using Sudanese soldiers. Were any of those Sudanese Generals? LOL
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  11.  @taylorlibby7642  I'm speaking historically, it's a fact, and Japan walked out which led the way to it's increased Imperialism and a partially failed military coup which brought in the young war hawks. He left all that out?
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  12. Yes, Japanese aircraft bombed and sank the USS Panay, a U.S. Navy gunboat, on December 12, 1937 in the Yangtze River:
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  13. ? The US did carpet/firebomb Tokyo before dropping the A-Bomb?
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