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    The document discusses several key events leading up to World War II in both Europe and Asia: 1) In 1939, Nazi Germany approved the Z-Plan to expand its navy but it was cancelled less than a year later with minimal effects. 2) In 1940, Japan occupied northern Indochina to block supplies to Chinese nationalists and established a protectorate over the colony with Vichy France. 3) By 1941, Japanese general Yamashita's relationship with Hitler had grown closer and they discussed Japan expanding further into Asia and Africa. 4) However, Japan's naval leaders concluded after the Battle of Midway in 1942 that victory was unlikely, though the military remained committed to continuing the

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    The document discusses several key events leading up to World War II in both Europe and Asia: 1) In 1939, Nazi Germany approved the Z-Plan to expand its navy but it was cancelled less than a year later with minimal effects. 2) In 1940, Japan occupied northern Indochina to block supplies to Chinese nationalists and established a protectorate over the colony with Vichy France. 3) By 1941, Japanese general Yamashita's relationship with Hitler had grown closer and they discussed Japan expanding further into Asia and Africa. 4) However, Japan's naval leaders concluded after the Battle of Midway in 1942 that victory was unlikely, though the military remained committed to continuing the

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    The document discusses several key events leading up to World War II in both Europe and Asia: 1) In 1939, Nazi Germany approved the Z-Plan to expand its navy but it was cancelled less than a year later with minimal effects. 2) In 1940, Japan occupied northern Indochina to block supplies to Chinese nationalists and established a protectorate over the colony with Vichy France. 3) By 1941, Japanese general Yamashita's relationship with Hitler had grown closer and they discussed Japan expanding further into Asia and Africa. 4) However, Japan's naval leaders concluded after the Battle of Midway in 1942 that victory was unlikely, though the military remained committed to continuing the

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    Pel Jane G.

    Mantes
    BSIE 1st Year Historical Criticism
    The Koga Document is also known as the Z - Plan a plan for re-equipment and expansion of
    the Nazi German Navy ordered by Adolf Hitler in 1939. Development of the plan began in 1938, but it
    reflected the evolution of the strategic thinking of the Oberkommando der Marine (Naval High Command)
    over the two decades following World War I. Since the plan was cancelled less than a year after it was
    approved, the positive effects on German naval construction were minimal. All of the ships authorized by
    the plan were cancelled after the outbreak of war, with only a few major surface vessels that predated the
    plan completed during the conflict. The war of European presented the Japanese with tempting
    opportunities. After the Nazi attack on Russia in 1941, the Japanese were torn between German urgings to
    join the war against the Soviets and their natural inclination to seek richer prizes from the European colonial
    territories to the south. In 1940 Japan occupied northern Indochina in an attempt to block access to supplies
    for the Chinese Nationalists, and in July 1941 it announced a joint protectorate with Vichy France over the
    whole colony. Natasha, F. (2020, May 19) Hitler-Yamashita-meeting-world-war-two-gold. The relationship
    between Yamashita and Hitler seems to have grown more cordial over time. Speaking to reporters in June
    1941, six months after his meeting with Hitler, Yamashita said that the spirits of Nazism and of Japan were
    so much alike as to amount “almost to a surprising coincidence.” In 1942, Japanese officials clashed over
    whether to continue Japan’s conquests beyond their efforts in the Netherlands, India and Burma. Yamashita
    was among those swung by Hitler’s arguments about overrunning India and offering East and South Africa
    to Japan. He pushed to press on with expansion, regardless of the risk. But Yamashita’s crusade for more
    territory at any cost would eventually be his undoing. In the last months of 1945, he was sentenced to death
    for war crimes before an American military tribunal. In February 1946, he walked the 13 steps to the gallows
    taking any secrets about hidden gold with him. This opened the way for further moves into Southeast Asia.
    After Midway, Japanese naval leaders secretly concluded that Japan’s outlook for victory was poor.
    Koiso formed a supreme war-direction council designed to link the cabinet and the high command. Many
    in government realized that the war was lost, but none had a program for ending the war that was acceptable
    to the military. There were also grave problems in breaking the news to the Japanese people, who had been
    told only of victories. Great firebombing raids in 1945 brought destruction to every major city except the
    old capital of Kyōto; but the generals were bent on continuing the war, confident that a major victory or
    protracted battle would help gain honorable terms.
    The Allied talk of unconditional surrender provided a good excuse to continue the fight. The
    attack on Pearl Harbour, the US military sought to strike back at Japan, and a plan was formulated to
    bomb Tokyo. As Tokyo could not be reached by land-based bombers, it was decided to use an aircraft
    carrier to launch the attack close to Japanese waters. There are many different causes for World War II.
    To Japanese militarism, to Political takeover from Hitler here are some of the reasons for World war II.
    The Treaty of Versailles was a complete and almost a total failure due to the distaste of many of the allied
    powers. Here we have Japanese militarism. Japanese militarism spread rapidly throughout Japan, being it
    is that Japan has an emperor but at this time the military had more of a say than the crowned emperor.
    Next the political takeover of Hitler, because we all know that the takeover of Hitler in Germany
    contributed greatly to the war.
    REFERENCE
    https://www.history.com/news/hitler-yamashita-meeting-world-war-two-gold
    https://www.britannica.com/place/Japan/World-War-II-and-defeat
    https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-tcc-worldciv2/chapter/causes-of-world-war-ii/

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