Top 3 Reasons America Almost Got Beaten by the Japanese in World War II

During the Second World War, our nation, the United States of America, was fighting a war on multiple fronts. First, we were fighting against the Germans in Europe. Second, we fought the Italians in Italy and third, we fought the Japanese in the Pacific. Even though the Germans and the Italians put up a fight, we beat them and their government never surfaced again. But in Japan, it was a different story, the Japanese didn't surrender, and they fought hard, most of the time to their deaths. American boys who had just gotten out of high school would be sent to replace those that had died at the hands of the Japanese. Here are some of the reasons why we almost lost that war.

1. The Japanese Never Surrendered: The Japanese had a culture in which a soldier's loyalty belonged to their emperor. Emperor Hirohito, the ruler at the time of World War II, forced his nations  soldiers to take an oath in which to never surrender. At many of the famous battles between Japanese and Allied forces, the number of Japanese that surrendered was in the single digits. 

2. In relation to the first reason, the Japanese had everything to fight for. They were defending themselves, and while the United States wanted to take revenge on them because of Pearl Harbor, they didn't have as strong of a will as the Japanese did to fight for their country. Thus, islands were harder to take because the Japanese had something to protect-their territory.

3. Finally, because the Japanese killed so many Americans, the American public was reluctant to send their high schoolers off to war.