WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Ban on trade
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only trading with them
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joining the Axis Powers
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Nothing
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Detailed explanation-1: -On July 26, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.
Detailed explanation-2: -Roosevelt, pushed by outraged public opinion, embargoed the export to Japan of various goods of military value, beginning with a “moral embargo” against the sale of airplanes and engines, then extended to an actual prohibition against the export of iron and scrap metal and aviation gasoline of 87 octane and higher.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Impending Crisis President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made one of those escalating moves in July 1940 when he cut off shipments of scrap iron, steel, and aviation fuel to Japan even as he allowed American oil to continue flowing to the empire.