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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-04-08 11:25 PM
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11. Eerily reminicent of FDR's embargo of oil shipments to Japan w/Indonesia
Edited on Fri Jul-04-08 11:26 PM by EVDebs
"After the French occupation of Indochina in July 1941 President Roosevelt embargoed oil shipments to Japan; and on December 7, 1941 the Japanese navy and air force struck not just south to occupy Dutch-ruled Indonesia and acquire an alternative source of oil, but everywhere else in the Southwest Pacific to enlarge the Japanese Empire--and at Pearl Harbor as well."

Review of Akira Iriye's The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and in the Pacific (New York: Longman, 1987).
Brad DeLong
Professor of Economics
U.C. Berkeley
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/econ_articles/reviews/iriye_origins.html

War took only 5 months after that.
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