Transcription: President Roosevelt believed sanctions on oil and the freezing of Japanese assets in the US would make Japan break down after its occupation of Indochina. But the pressure on Japanese resources and the pride of the military factions only served to bring war closer. If sanctions were not lifted by November, the Japanese government had decided war would be initiated. The then Prime Minister of Japan, Prince Fumimaro Konoya was under pressure from the militarists within the cabinet to keep up the warring stance. Nevertheless, he still believed that Japan could negotiate with the Western powers to ...
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