06-09-2015, 11:03 PM
(06-09-2015, 10:36 AM)Beaker Wrote: Japan had decided to align itself with the axis powers as far back as the end of WWI when they were our allies and were snubbed at the Treaty of Versailles. It was a huge dishonor to them and was instrumental in setting them on a course of never having to be beholding to another country. Their aggression in the pacific was due mainly to acquiring resources such as rubber and oil that they did not have access to as a small island nation. Japan had already begun this policy years before the US stopped trading with them.
In Richmonds link there were specific numbers on what the U.S. provided them.... I wanna say 57-60% of their steel/iron .... (Could be off a little, but I am in the ballpark of a reasonable discussion). Once FDR passed and used the export control act then followed up with an embargo.... That backed them into a corner.
Btw a side note.... progressives doing what progressives do.... FDR passed a law and got his pen and his phone and did what he wanted. He followed in Wilson's ideology of centralizing power with the executive. Now we have the same problems today.... Yet no one wants to acknowledge where these all came .....
