Japan: Causes to Pearl Harbor
...her countries even before the war started. So it’s only fair. Even thought Japan and the United state was great allies they still attacked Pearl Harbor because of the action the United State had given to the countries in Asia. Japan didn’t appreciate that the U.S. also helped China so they attacked china too. Not only did they aid China they have cut off the supplies to Japan and froze their assets in the U.S. This had caused big differences between all countries. It mostly affects the United State and China. Many of the countries depends export from each other countries. So, according to this, it meant war has started and Japan was the first to make its move because it wants to be overpowered. III. EVALUATION OF SOURCE The source that I use to find out the information on Japan was from the book called Reader’s Digest: Illustrated History of World War II, and The Story of World War II. These two books gave a good amount of information about what Japan was planning and the details of these actions. They both have similar information, but the Reader’s Digest: Illustrated History of World War II has a better detail of the note of who caused what and what really cause the war. Like both of these book would tell you about the ultimatum that Japan gave to the U.S. before the attack on Pearl Harbor. But the Reader’s Digest: Illustrated History of World War II was the book that actually told what that ultimatum was. The other source I need was a source where I would find out what was going through the U.S. during this confrontation with Japan. That source was also in the book The Story of World War II. This book gave me better information on the U.S. This book was rewritten from the original book from 1945. It was revised because of the missing facts that were not known back then. Thee author of the original book, Henry Commager, and the revised one Donald Miller, are both known historians of WWII. IV. ANALYSIS In the 1920s, Japan started to fall apart, but their economy and living standards was the best in Asia. Japan was a major trading nation, but the 1930s Japan drops economy greatly like many other nations because of the Great Depression. The rice patties weren't growing so well for the countryside. Japan wanted to expand their economy for better resources. Their population growth from 34 millions to 56 million people since 1872. Manchuria, China was already a Japanese occupied area. But this wasn’t enough. They wanted all of Asia to be theirs. By 1935, Japan had conquered land in China from the Great wall to Beijing. In 1937, the war between China and Japan was declared upon each other. With this war it soon brought the other nation involved. These nations were Britain, Dutch, and the United States. These three nations had controls over some of the southern Asian countries. These were soon targets of the Japanese conquest. China was no match for Japan, so the U.S. supported China with a little aid. Even with the support President Roosevelt avoided any war between the United States and Japan. Shortly, Japan made a treaty with Italy and Germany, called the Tripartite. When the president heard of this he banned all exports of scrap metal and oil to Japan. He also increased the support to financial aid to China. Japan was not satisfy with this decision and wanted the western powers out of Asia. Japan now decides a new priority, and that is to take total domination of Indochina. Japan knew that they had just set a collision course with the Indochina and in the westerns. From his point on the U.S. suspended all financial aid and traded relations with Japan. Not only that, the U.S. government also froze off the Japanese assets on America. Other Nations joi...