HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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a lack of natural resources
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a plan to end unequal treaties
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the need to increase cultural diffusion
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the desire to spread communism
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was the military expansion in the 1930s that created an artificial shortage of mineral resources, the wholesale exodus of population, and a lowering in the standard of living of the general public. resources has ever been a serious problem in Japanese economic history.
Detailed explanation-2: -Japanese imperialism was not simply about increasing the nation’s territory. It was also fueled by a strong ideological sense of mission and racial superiority. These ideas were captured in a word widely used at the time but rarely heard today: Pan-Asianism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Unfortunately, Japanese industry was at a disadvantage. The island country lacked many raw materials, including that very important burnable rock called coal.
Detailed explanation-4: -Having lost 94% of its oil supply and unwilling to submit to U.S demands, Japan planned to take the oil needed by force.