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To your point (4), I would counter that while WW2 Hitler was certainly ideology, WW2 Japan may indeed have been oil. Remember that the UK & US were squeezing Ja

To your point (4), I would counter that while WW2 Hitler was certainly ideology, WW2 Japan may indeed have been oil. Remember that the UK & US were squeezing Japan's oil access (90% of oil came from US imports which we blocked) and their only option was to assert themselves militarily and conquer the East Indies for oil. The rest is escalation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II#Competition_for_resources_and_markets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II#Competi...

WalterBright 10y ago
> WW2 Hitler was certainly ideology Lebensraum?
- baldfat 10y ago
  Definition Lebensraum (German pronunciation: [ˈleːbənsˌʁaʊm] ( listen), "living space") refers to conceptions and policies of a form of settler colonialism connected with agrarianism that existed in Germany from the 1890s to the 1940s. One variant of this policy was supported by the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany.
baldfat 10y ago
Prior to the US Embargo was the Invasion of "Manchuria" and China. Heck Japan had been ruling Korea since 1910. > In 1937 Japan invaded Manchuria and China proper. Under the guise of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, with slogans as "Asia for the Asians!" Japan sought to remove the Western powers' influence in China and replace it with Japanese domination.[24][25] The ongoing conflict in China led to a deepening conflict with the U.S., where public opinion was alarmed by events such as the Nanking Massacre and growing Japanese power. Lengthy talks were held between the U.S. and Japan. When Japan moved into the southern part of French Indochina, President Roosevelt chose to freeze all Japanese assets in the U.S. The intended consequence of this was the halt of oil shipments from the U.S. to Japan, which had supplied 80 percent of Japanese oil imports.

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To your point (4), I would counter that while WW2 Hitler was certainly ideology, WW2 Japan may indeed have been oil. Remember that the UK & US were squeezing Ja

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WalterBright 10y ago
> WW2 Hitler was certainly ideology Lebensraum?
- baldfat 10y ago
  Definition Lebensraum (German pronunciation: [ˈleːbənsˌʁaʊm] ( listen), "living space") refers to conceptions and policies of a form of settler colonialism connected with agrarianism that existed in Germany from the 1890s to the 1940s. One variant of this policy was supported by the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany.
baldfat 10y ago
Prior to the US Embargo was the Invasion of "Manchuria" and China. Heck Japan had been ruling Korea since 1910. > In 1937 Japan invaded Manchuria and China proper. Under the guise of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, with slogans as "Asia for the Asians!" Japan sought to remove the Western powers' influence in China and replace it with Japanese domination.[24][25] The ongoing conflict in China led to a deepening conflict with the U.S., where public opinion was alarmed by events such as the Nanking Massacre and growing Japanese power. Lengthy talks were held between the U.S. and Japan. When Japan moved into the southern part of French Indochina, President Roosevelt chose to freeze all Japanese assets in the U.S. The intended consequence of this was the halt of oil shipments from the U.S. to Japan, which had supplied 80 percent of Japanese oil imports.