French privateers attacked his ship, and thats what ended his journey.
In WW1, the Japanese army only had to clean up what it could get from the German colonial possessions. Tsingtao was its biggest engagement and went well. It had not cost the lives of countless Japanese soldiers.
Contrast that to WW2, where you have an army that has been fighting in China since 1931 and then was thrust into the jungles of southeast Asia and the Pacific in a bitter fight for survival against the British and Americans. When you have spilled your blood, you are less predisposed to the gallantries of "civilized" fighting.
<span>And then you have the precedent of these exact same foes having turned down Japan's </span>Racial Equality Proposal<span> in 1920. The Japanese understood that the westerners were still looking at them as inferior. That resentment had time to fester in the intervening 20 years, among the ranks of the Japanese army officers.</span>
<span>Last but not least, in the interwar years the entire world saw a slide to totalitarianism, with Japan being no exception
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<span>The beginning of the new United States of America and the beginning of the French
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Because my partners gotta wash the taste of Indian raids and starvation out of their mouths.
The Southerners were of the belief that Abraham Lincoln was about to split the Nation even though he had no intention too. And this led to a rising fear of a Civil war occurring in America.
