USA HISTORY

Which retaliatory measure did the Japanese take in response to the U.S. freezing Japanese funds and implementing an embargo on petroleum?

(A) established a corrupt government in Manchuria

(B) ** attacked U.S. forces in the Pacific

(C) created an alliance with China against the U.S. forces

(D) developed the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Concept note-1: -Japan’s immediate response was to occupy Saigon, again with Vichy France’s acquiescence. If Japan could gain control of Southeast Asia, including Malaya, it could also control the region’s rubber and tin production-a serious blow to the West, which imported such materials from the East.

Concept note-2: -The United States responded to this growing threat by temporarily halting negotiations with Japanese diplomats, instituting a full embargo on exports to Japan, freezing Japanese assets in U.S. banks, and sending supplies into China along the Burma Road.

Concept note-3: -Responding to Japanese occupation of key airfields in Indochina (July 24) after an agreement between Japan and Vichy France, the U.S. froze Japanese assets on July 26, 1941, and on August 1, it established an embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan.

Concept note-4: -Roosevelt hoped that such sanctions would goad the Japanese into making a rash mistake by launching a war against the United States, which would bring in Germany because Japan and Germany were allied.