WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The oil embargo was an especially strong response because oil was Japan’s most crucial import, and more than 80% of Japan’s oil came from the United States. Japanese war planners had long looked south, especially to Brunei for oil and Malaya for rubber and tin.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese attack the USA?-The answer is oil. Japan had been modernising its economy throughout the 20th century and wanted to build an empire of its own.

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Embargo that prohibited export of fuel and other war materials to Japan in the years preceding World War II. In 1937 Japan and China began the second Sino-Japanese War, a war that would ultimately last until 1945.