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Re: Did Roosevelt push Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor?
The oil embargo was just the breaking point as it was primarily the Japanese military that depended on oil while much of the Japanese economy still relied on coal.
It was the embargo of steel, tin, copper, aluminum, and rubber that threatened to stop the Japanese industy in it's tracks. Japan had almost no natural resources of it's own, and it's occupation of China was mostly for agricultural land.
The embargoes were not just to stem Japanese military growth, but to choke the Japanese industry and to wreck it's economy.
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