ocr: Ony26.1 1939, the United States formally notified Japan that a1911 commercial trade agreement was canceled in retaliation for Japan's aggression, American public sentiment was still primarily solationist, so FDR. could do Little miore than impose trade restrictions as deterrence. His attentions were aiso consumed by the needs ofBritain and Europe under Adolf Hitier's advançiag troops. Then the European war broke out in. September 1939, and the Japanese saw an opportanity, The French and British were distracted by battles with Hitler and could ill afford to protect their colonial possessions in ...
