Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? The start of the Second Sino-Japanese War‚ in 1937‚ generated friction between the Japanese Empire‚ the United States and the British Empire. The United States and the United Kingdom reacted to the Japanese military actions in China by imposing an embargo on raw metal followed by oil also sent covert military aid to the Kuomintang government. When Japan occupied Indochina‚ a French colony in 1940‚ the Western powers responded with an asset freeze
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the United States‚ and in part the Soviet Union. Notable names in the war were: Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ (president of the United States); Adolf Hitler‚ (Nazi Party leader and German chancellor); Benito Mussolini‚ (Italian fascist dictator); Hideki Tojo‚ (Japanese military leader); and Joseph Stalin‚ (communist leader of Soviet Union). World War II was the most fatal war in history‚ resulting in between 40 and 50 million deaths. World War II was caused by many different reasons. It was caused psychologically
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------------------------------------------------- Mussolini Speech Signore e signori‚ which is Ladies and Gentlemen in Italian. I am Benito Mussolini‚ an Italian Politician‚ and I was born in July 29th 1883.I was the greatest leader of the National Fascist Party‚ and I ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943. I was born in Dovia di Predappio‚ a small town in the province of Forlì in Emilia-Romagna on 29 July 1883. My father Alessandro Mussolini was a blacksmith and a socialist‚ while my mother Rosa
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second cause of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was the threat of U.S. fleet expansion. In July 1940 U.S. Congress passed the Naval Expansion Act which promised to triple the fleet size by 1944(Doc C) This really worried the Japanese leaders. Hideki Tojo‚ one of the Japanese leaders‚ said "When I think about the the strengthening of American defenses in the Southwest Pacific‚ the expansion of the American fleet‚…I see no end to difficulties…I fear that we would become a third-class nation after
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Tripartite Pact in 1940 with Germany and Italy‚ Roosevelt instituted a more extensive embargo. These attempts slowed‚ but did not stop the expansion‚ because the Japanese were able to gain resources from their new territories. In 1941‚ General Hideki Tojo became the Japanese
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2005) Emperor Hirohito was excused from the trial after World War II and was kept in throne for another 44 years. The fact that the war time Prime Minister Hideki Tojo took all the responsibility at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for war Crimes in which he made a speech to admit the actions he had done during the war (Tojo‚ 1994) gave the world an impression that the Emperor was utterly blameless and oblivious to the invasion of China. Although it was
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War 2 is considered to be the deadliest war in history. It involved over 30 countries‚ but 6 countries mainly contributed. The Axis powers consisted of Germany‚ Italy‚ and Japan. Led by the fascist leaders of Adolf Hitler‚ Benito Mussolini‚ and Hideki Tojo. The Allied powers were made up by Great Britain‚ the Soviet Union‚ and the United States. Ran by Winston Churchill‚ Joseph Stalin‚ and Franklin Roosevelt. On September 1st‚ 1939 Hitler and his Nazis troops invaded Poland which kickstarted this
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JAPANESE OCCUPATION & the SECOND REPUBLIC JAPANESE MILITARY ADMINISTRATION 1. Japanese Military Administration established on Jan. 03‚ 1942 by the Japanese High Command. a. First Director-General – Maj. Gen Yoshihide Hayashi; succeeded by Maj. Gen. Takazi Wachi. 2. Military rule by the Japanese conquerors. a. All government officials and employees were ordered to returned to their post. b. Military proclamation declared that for one Japanese killed by the population ten prominent Filipino
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Joining Hitler as an aggressor was extreme facets General Hideki Tojo. After failed attempts to better relations between Japan and the United States‚ General Tojo ordered an attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941. This attack took America by surprise and the United States declared war on Japan the next day. Following the United States declaring war on Japan‚
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