Transcription: Japan viewed United States policy in the Pacific as an impediment to its territorial expansion. Beginning in July of 1937, after the Japanese opened hostilities against China, Roosevelt established limited economic quarantine on Japan. The following year Roosevelt loaned the Chinese under Chiang Kai-shek $25 million to aid in their struggle with Japan. Tensions mounted with each side reluctant to provoke the other to war. Britain too became engaged in a diplomatic dance with Japan, unwilling and certainly unable to cope with war in the East while Hitler's armies threatened all of Europe. In 19 ...
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