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The facts are entirely related. FDR was keen on opposing fascism, but neither Congress, nor the US public had much interest in it. The atrocities in China galva
by vkou 3y ago
The facts are entirely related. FDR was keen on opposing fascism, but neither Congress, nor the US public had much interest in it. The atrocities in China galvanized support for anti-Japanese policies, which eventually terminated in the oil embargo, which precipitated Pearl Harbor.
If Japan has only attacked the DEI, the US was unlikely to have sat around on its hands - and it would have had both a Pacific fleet, and the Phillipines to operate it from. Japan's imperial ambitions were unattainable from the moment that the oil embargo was in place.
- jacquesm 3y agoYou are making a direct link between Pearl Harbor and the Rape of Nanking: > the reason Japan attacked the US at Pearl Harbor was because the US backed it into a corner over the Rape of Nanking. The timing doesn't work, and no historian of that era that I'm aware of has made such a direct link, though, of course, like everything it is connected but only in the much larger scheme of things. Historians generally seem to agree on the fact that the Japanese invasion of French Indochina to try to embargo all imports (including US imports) into China is what led to the oil embargo. You're welcome to persist in your own view of history of course, but the fact that the Rape of Nanking preceded Pearl Harbor and the Oil Embargo that led up to it does not automatically mean that the one caused the other.