[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
German Invasion of Russia – Operations, 22 June-25 August 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[dfwgator]

And thus, the die was cast for War in the Pacific.

[Friend of the Friendless]

I really enjoy these posts. Thank you.

[PeterPrinciple]

JAPANESE BITTER OVER U.S. STAND

-———Some papers examined at great length the effect that the threatened American embargoes would have on Japanese war efforts and came to the conclusion that they would hurt the United State with out being able to stop Japan. This is true, Yomiuri claimed, even in regard to oil because the United Sates long since had put high octane gasoline under license to that only low grade fuel was exported to Japan anyhow. And as for Japan's silk exports, the cessation of which to American be be expect to hit Japanese economy, this paper assert that those exports were made merely to pay for imports so that the embargoes would relieve Japan of necessity to export silk.

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I guess you have me hooked, I am interested in all the little things that led up to the war with Japan. We tend to think it was one event, Pearl Harbor. This reminds be of the essence of Greek tragedy plays, where the characters do themselves in in spite of them selves.

In the very recent posts it was Japan doing a communication black out and now we do trade embargo and freeze assets. Freezing assets is a major step toward war. But the die was cast, the only unknown was when and how we were going to war. This goes to show that embargoes don't really do much do they? Can anyone cite me when an embargo did work? But you have to do something..................