Pearl Harbor: United States against Japan
Words: 1540 Pages: 5 6136The tension between the United States and Japan began during the Great Depression. Japan wanted to fix their "...economic and demographic woes by forcing... [their] way into China, starting in 1931 with an invasion of Manchuria." "...[The United States wanted to stop Japan's Global Expansion so they] began passing economic sanctions against Japan, including trade embargoes on aircraft exports, oil and scrap metal, among other key goods, and gave economic support to Guomindang forces." September of 1940 the Tripartite Pact […]