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
"I do not think there is the slightest prospect of any war."
- Viscount Cecil, Britain’s chief representative at the League of Nations
- Viscount Cecil, Britain’s chief representative at the League of Nations