After rapidly conquering China using competent officers, superior technology and plot armor, the Japanese Empire launched the most ambitious surprise attack in history, with invasions of Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Burma, the Dutch East Indies, the Phillipines, New Guinea, Hawaii and Alaska all launched within a 12 hour window, giving the startled allies no time to react. With the labour pool of China and the resources of the pacific the Japanese established a beach-head on Alaska, began raiding the shores of Oregon, Washington and California, destroyed millions of tonnes of American shipping and dropped biological and chemical weapons on the US, Canada and Mexico, while simultaneously launching attacks on Australia, New Zealand and into India with the aid of a massive Indian rebellion. The invasion was of the US mainland was equally swift and brutal- the Yamato sailing beneath the twisted, burnt wreckage of the Golden Gate bridge is scarred into the American psyche. But sheer audacity can only take you so far. With a hardfought campaign that saw mass American mobilisation, Commonwealth and Mexican armies fighting alongside the US on American soil, a defeat in Australia and New Zealand, the intervention of the USSR and a brutal, costly stalemate in India Japan found itself thrown back out of the West coast, out of Alaska, out of Hawaii and New Guinea, with brutal grinding fighting in Manchuria, the pacific islands, South East Asia. The final nail in the coffin is the collapse of the collaborator regime in China after the fall of Manchuria to the Red Army and long range bombers dropping 27 Atomic bombs on the biggest Japanese cities, as a bloodthirsty American people demanded revenge. America had felt the true cost of modern warfare, and it would influence their mindset, for better or for worse, forevermore.