WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
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Question
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We used economic sanctions.
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We went to war with them immediately.
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We wrote them angry letters.
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We movies that were embarrassing to the Japanese.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The United States placed an embargo on scrap-metal shipments to Japan and closed the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping. That hit Japan’s economy particularly hard because 74.1% of Japan’s scrap iron came from the United States in 1938, and 93% of Japan’s copper in 1939 came from the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Roosevelt swung into action by freezing all Japanese assets in America. Britain and the Dutch East Indies followed suit. The result: Japan lost access to three-fourths of its overseas trade and 88 percent of its imported oil.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1937, Japan invaded China. In response, the League of Nations sponsored a conference at Brussels in November 1937. As the delegates debated whether or not to impose economic sanctions against Japan, the United States announced it would not support sanctions.
Detailed explanation-5: -Rather than send troops, US and European leaders called for economic sanctions and warned that harsher steps would follow if Japan continued its aggression. President Roosevelt banned the exports of some armaments and aircraft parts to Japan in 1940 after its leaders formed a military alliance with Germany and Italy.