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Originally Posted by theking
The US told Japan to cease and desist in their invasion of China and threatened a Naval blockade if Japan did not comply. Japan is an island that cannot even feed its people and has virtually no natural resources thus it had a major decision to make...comply or fight. Unfortunately they made the wrong decision. BTW they did not ever expect to win a war with the US...but did expect to buy themselves enough time to consolidate their expansion into Asia and then sue for a peace with the US.
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Correct. They knew they would never win. Pearl Harbor was a tactic to destroy their fleet to buy them 12-18 months to run through the south Paicfic, gianing as much territory as possible, and then hope for peace, and that the US/world would let them keep their emporer, and territorial gains.
Didn't happen.
