Japan's Need For Natural Resources
•Invasion of Manchuria begins this process in 1937
•Sphere of influence across the Pacific (Greater East Asian Co-prosperity sphere)
•Coal, iron and rubber in Dutch east Indies
•Indo-China, Taiwan, Mainland China, Philippines and Solomon Islands all captured
•Americans boycott oil to Japan in 1941
•Sphere of influence across the Pacific (Greater East Asian Co-prosperity sphere)
•Coal, iron and rubber in Dutch east Indies
•Indo-China, Taiwan, Mainland China, Philippines and Solomon Islands all captured
•Americans boycott oil to Japan in 1941
Summary: The Japanese invade the East indies in order to gain resources as they are running out. Americans stop supplying Japan with resources as they are at war with each other.
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