1941: Negotiations Between Japan And The United States

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- Just before Hitler’s invaded the Soviet Union, Japan signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin. This removed the threat of a Russian attack on Japan’s new holding. Europe was occupied fighting Hitler, which left the United States as the only obstacle to Japan’s aim to establish a an East Asia spanning empire. By the end of 1940, he United States had ended shipments of scrap metal, steel, and iron ore to Japan. At the same time, the United States began to send military resources to the Chinese resisting Japanese aggression.
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- Negotiations between Japan and the US began in early 1941, but there was little movement. By midsummer, Roosevelt made the decisive step of freezing all Japanese assets in the United States, and ceasing shipments of

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