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War in the Pacific The Sino-Japanese War, the attack at Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki

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Old November 11th, 2003, 08:49 AM
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I was wondering what you all thought if japan had not attacked USA but did invade Australia do you think the usa would come to the assitance of Australia ?

As it was during the war the british pulled back towards inda and the usa put a battle fleet in the coral sea(THANK GOD).
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I think that yes the US would have come to the assistance of Australia.
I would think that Japan would have invaded the Philippines on it's way to invading Australia in this what-if since they greatly desired that chuck of land. Since they were still going to attack the Philippines they still needed to hit Pearl Harbor.
But after capturing the dutch east indies, bottling up the British and hitting the US i think that if Japan had launched a concerted attack to invade Australia the US would have launched some sort of relief units to help as soon as they could.

However realistically i don't think Japan had much desire to invade australia being that their motivation to go to war was simply the raw materials of the east indies area, china and india.
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