WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To increase trade with Japan and create more jobs in the United States
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Refusing to trade with Japan would limit Japan’s ability to further expand their territory in the Pacific
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FDR hoped that the embargo would force the Japanese to surrender to the Allied powers
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To improve diplomatic relations between Japan and the United States
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The US protested this aggression by cutting off trade with Japan. The embargoed goods included oil which Japan needed to fuel its war machine.