China lost the entire eastern seaboard from Manchuria through Shanghai through Nanjing down to HK to Japan at one stage. That's certainly more land than Malaya and Singapore combined. Anyway, like I've said, China was absorbing temporary losses to hold old on for ultimate victory (e.g. Liu Bang v. Xiang Yu). It could afford to and bluntly put, it was used to it anyway. UK accustomed to a tradition of winning was shocked by the loss of Malaya and Singapore to Japan, and worse their allies Holland were in no position or power to hold on to West Indies (Indonesia). What came next after Indonesia? Of course Australia and NZ. That's why Australian and NZ soldiers came here to fight and die. Not for fun or they love Singapore, Malaya or Britain. They knew the cost of total defeat would be even worse.
only a part of monggolia became chinese. Ulan bator is still the capital of free monggolia.
The Battle of Singapore remains British biggest shame ever. It resulted in the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. Winston Churchill called it "worst disaster" and "largest capitulation" in British history. Best part was the surrender was largely down to a bluff by Yamashita. The Jipun kia was probably about to shit his pants worrying whether the Ang Moh will buy his bluff
And here is a map of Japanese occupied China during the 2nd Japanese-Sino War(A.K.A. WWII). They never managed to take the entire country, too big liao. And remember, the China men at this time were fighting each other besides fighting the Japanese and many of them still using primitive weapons
You call that 'small defeat'?
I always remind our dear drunk brits how their grandpa run like sisi when storm by cycling japs troop from the north. The best part is the canons are facing the wrong direction.
Now waiting for someone to overlook these china men's problems and simply just state they were inferior.
it was used in this role as late as the 1930's in the Second Sino-Japanese War. During Operation Nekka the Chinese claim that whenever they had a chance for close engagement, the dadao was so deadly that they could cut off the heads of Japanese soldiers with ease. A military marching song was composed to become the rally cry for Chinese troops thoughtout the Second Sino-Japanese war to glorify the use of Dadao during battle with the invaders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadao
In context of world war scale, yea, just a small defeat, but an embarrassing one nonetheless. US and Britain were the only two true world war warriors. They were fighting practically everywhere, unlike Germany, Russia, Japan and China fighting within defined regions. France had enough spread of colonies then to be fighting "everywhere" but it suffered an early defeat at homeground to Germany. That's a big defeat!
The Eastern Front was the largest and bloodiest theatre of World War II. It is generally accepted as being the deadliest conflict in human history, with over 30 million killed as a result. It involved more land combat than all other World War II theatres combined.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_%28World_War_II%29#Results
The numerical superiority of troops in Singapore became meaningless and even a burden after the fall of Malaya. The Japanese navy wasn't going to attack from the south for a frontal showdown. They just locked up the sea lanes with their then naval superiority gained from the recent setbacks suffered by the British and American navies. It wasn't a bluff.
The common feature in most Singapore wartime stories was lack of food. The Japanese had control over land supplies with Malaya and the shipping lanes. Singapore could either surrender or be starved to death.
Tomoyuki Yamashita said:My attack on Singapore was a bluff – a bluff that worked. I had 30,000 men and was outnumbered more than three to one. I knew that if I had to fight for long for Singapore, I would be beaten. That is why the surrender had to be at once. I was very frightened all the time that the British would discover our numerical weakness and lack of supplies and force me into disastrous street fighting.
I strongly suggest U start reading stories about the Eastern Front. What the Brits, French and the whole of Western Europe + Americans had to deal with during WWII were nothing compared to all the shit the Russians have to endure and most experts agreed that Russians were the one that won the war. The Germans loss more troops fighting the Russians then they did against all the Western nations combined. In terms of highest casualties in modern warfare, the seige of Berlin, Stalingrad, Leningrad and battle of Budapest were the highest. All fought between the Russians and the Germans
The Brits and Yankees made nice movies about WWII but were largely fighting the youths and Reservist by the time they push past France. The city of Leningrad lasted 3 years against the Germans and never got taken. The whole of France lasted 1 month. Most of the elite German troops died in Russia
BTW the Germans also fought in Africa and the Russians fought in Asia(most notably the taking of North Korea)
You call that 'small defeat'?
I always remind our dear drunk brits how their grandpa run like sisi when storm by cycling japs troop from the north. The best part is the canons are facing the wrong direction.
The Germans got involved in North Africa after the surprisingly quick victory over France and surprisingly quick collapse of Italy. Still within the Mediterranean region, still lost to Britain anyway (Montgomery v. Rommel).
Where did British and Americans fight? Practically everywhere between Pacific and Atlantic. Russians and Chinese were fighting homeland defence wars, even if it extended to Korea, it was just border regions to both Russia and China, and Burma, also just southern border to China.
I wouldn't call Luftwaffe ME fighter pilots "reservists and youths." They were the elites of the elites. They lost the Battle of Britain to RAF, in a battle of elites versus elites, that's a fact. With that defeat, the rest of German troops couldn't land on Britain, that's why Hitler changed strategy and turned eastward to Russia. Britain and Russia are west and east brackets to Europe with Germany in the middle. Hitler's thinking of breaking down at least one of the brackets first is strategically sound, but he was denied and defeated in the endeavors on both ends.
Victory in war is not rated by how many died, it's rated by how many saved. Britain stopped Germany at the cost of a tens of thousands of lives, Russia stopped Germany at the cost of tens of millions of lives. Not a single bomb or bullet could land on US. You go figure who's the real victor?
Hitler never wanted to fight Great Britian. He wanted to take on the Russians. However Churchill refused to surrender and the Joker Goering kept boosting that he can beat the British in an air battle which is why it was fought in the first place.
I agree with you on this point. Hitler didn't want to fight Britain. He didn't even demand surrender. He didn't even want his troops stay in Holland and France for long. All he wanted from Britain was to acknowlege German legitimacy over central and eastern European territories. He didn't even intend to conquer Russia. That was also just an attempt at battering and cowering into aquiescience and agreement. Hitler, being the racist he was, hated the Russians far more anyway. He called the British cousins. Well, Anglo-Saxons are half-Germans, Saxony is in Germany wherefrom half of the English race originated.
When Churchill turned his offer down, he had no choice between cease and desist or try to invade Britain. His early success with Scandinavia, Benelux and France made him bolder in belief that he could succeed. Churchill knew that too, and prepared the entire Britain air, land and sea to ward it off.
The failure in Battle of Britain left Hitler with no choice between cease and desist or try to invade Russia to pre-empt a backdoor opening on the eastern front. Yes, the fighting there were more furious and deadly, and the death toll certainly much more horrendous on both sides.
As early as 1925, Hitler suggested in Mein Kampf ("My Struggle") that he would invade the Soviet Union, asserting that the German people needed Lebensraum ("living space", i.e. land and raw materials) and that these should be sought in the east. Nazi racial ideology cast the Soviet Union as populated by "Untermenschen" ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters.[24][25] Mein Kampf said Germany's destiny was to turn "to the East" as it did "six hundred years ago" and "the end of the Jewish domination in Russia will also be the end of Russia as a State."[26] Thereafter, Hitler spoke of an inescapable battle against "pan-Slav ideals", in which victory would lead to "permanent mastery of the world", though he said they would "walk part of the road with the Russians, if that will help us."[27] Accordingly, it was Nazi stated policy to kill, deport, or enslave the Russian and other Slavic populations and repopulate the land with Germanic peoples (see New Order).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa
Mein Kampf has also been studied as a work on political theory. For example, Hitler announces his hatred of what he believed to be the world's twin evils: Communism and Judaism. The new territory that Germany needed to obtain would properly nurture the "historic destiny" of the German people; this goal, which Hitler referred to as Lebensraum (living space), explains why Hitler aggressively expanded Germany Eastward, specifically the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland, before he launched his attack against Russia. In Mein Kampf Hitler openly states that the future of Germany "has to lie in the acquisition of land in the East at the expense of Russia".[7] Hitler's invasion of France was not motivated by that part of his ideology, as he had previously claimed that Lebensraum should be found eastward, but as a retaliation and strategic occupation after the war declaration against Nazi Germany by the Allies (including Great Britain and France). The invasions of Denmark and Norway were similarly not motivated by ideology, but by a strategic need to fortify all coastlines in Europe in preparation for the Allied invasion of Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf
The Mongols knew nuts about sea and couldn't sail. They go on land only. Not bad though, reached middle east and eastern Europe. 2nd largest empire the world has ever seen, bigger than Roman empire but still smaller than British empire. These were what were under the British empire at its height:
Canada (2nd largest in the world)
Australia (6th largest in the world)
India (7th largest in the world)
Plus the Caribbean islands, African and Asian colonies, Pacific islands and New Zealand, the British empire controlled one quarter of planet earth.
And here is a map of Japanese occupied China during the 2nd Japanese-Sino War(A.K.A. WWII). They never managed to take the entire country, too big liao. And remember, the China men at this time were fighting each other besides fighting the Japanese and many of them still using primitive weapons
He probably never even thought of fighting the Western nations. The idea was to go East wards which he did by first "taking back" what used to belong to Germany and the Austrian Hungarian Empire. The Western nations, namely Britain and France were the one who declared war on him not the other way round