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Japan and Germany were economic basket cases at the start of WWII. They acted out of desperation and probably would have crumbled purely from macroeconomic pro
by kingkongrevenge 18y ago
Japan and Germany were economic basket cases at the start of WWII. They acted out of desperation and probably would have crumbled purely from macroeconomic problems without any outside intervention. Germany had bread riots in the weeks before rolling on Poland. Japan was being crushed by the costs of maintaining the empire they had already built.
- Retric 18y agoYes, but let's add 1 year to the time line. Poland was quickly crushed and was adding a lot of resources to the German economy. [Edit: I don't know a lot of the details but I think Germany could have consolidated power in Poland and then stooped. I mean the ultimatum was one thing, but they had yet to start fighting and by giving up a little land or trying to stall etc they could have still gained land with little cost. The secret would have been for them to "stop" soon enough.] Germany would have probably failed much like the USSR and for similar reasons, but who knows. Japan - I don't know much about their economy but having industrialized they had a significant advantages. Attacking China was probably a bad idea due to it's size, but there where plenty of local countries they could have absorbed with little difficulty.
- rsheridan6 18y ago>Germany had bread riots in the weeks before rolling on Poland. I've never heard of that.. the closest thing I've heard of was riots by the German minority in Poland. Cite?