During that time, most of their resources especially oil were coming from the USA. The USA did not approve of Japanese aggression in China and they declared an embargo on Japan. This means they would stop supplying Japan with raw materials, like oil. This angered the Japanese, so they attacked Pearl Harbour. Pearl Harbour was the chosen destination to attack as it had one of the largest US military ports, so this would cause them a dis-advantage.
Which shows the Japanese Government cared very little about their civilians. The Japanese Government wanted to keep the war going in order for them to sustain imperial victory hoping that it would achieve an conditional surrender rather than an unconditional surrender. Because of their selfishness, many civilians had to suffer. On the 26th of July, Truman and the rest of the allied leaders issued the Potsdam Declaration outlining terms of surrender for Japan. The Potsdam Declaration was presented as an Ultimatum that stated that if Japan did not want to surrender, the Allies would attack Japan resulting in “the inevitable and complete destruction of Japanese armed forces and just as inevitably the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland.” On the 28th of July, the U.S. received papers saying that the declaration had been rejected by the Japanese Government.
This was not the sort of surrender that U.S. forces wanted. The country was also torn between whether they wanted to surrender at all, conditional or not. The emperor supported the idea of surrender put forth by the Potsdam Declaration, wishing for an end to the war, but the Japanese Minister of War and other military heads were determined to find another alternative that was more of a negotiated settlement rather than actual surrender (Gosling). After the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, the emperor actually stepped forth and ordered Japan to surrender. If the bombs had not been dropped, this no doubt would not have happened.
They were forced to divert plans and weapons from the battle areas to homeland to protect them. Germany and Italy had also declared war against the United States. America was officially in World War II. Although the United States and Japan had bad intensions toward each other for quite a while, it took many events to build up that hatred and wish of destruction upon one another. The embargo, Tripartite Act, World War I all led to Pearl Harbor.
The U.S. wanted to stop Japanese expansion but the Americans were not willing to go to war to stop it. The U.S. demanded that Japan with draw from China and Indochina. The negotiations that was supposed to solve their differences hadn't been going well in fact this made Japanese more aggressive and that’s when Japan decided to launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbour thinking America would lose it’s great naval power. The Japanese military was asked to devise a war plan. They expected the U.S. to declare war but not to be willing to fight long or hard enough to win.
Document C states the U.S placed an embargo on Japan (stopped trading Japan oil). Japans need for oil caused the Japanese to attack because without the
That one, simple word caused perhaps one of the biggest controversies and rivalries in history. Communism could easily take the blame for the cause of the cold war. The Soviet Union and the United States joined forces during WWII out of necessity, not out of the goodness of their hearts. The United States had to practically beg the Soviets to begin fighting Japan. Even as allies, the countries did not trust each other entirely.
Perhaps this led to the belief that the Japanese would not surrender unless dramatic action was taken. An invasion was most likely out of the question because the cost of lives, both American and Japanese, would be too high. At the beginning of WWII the bombing of civilians was considered a barbaric act. However as the war progressed both sides abandoned previous restraints, although international law had always distinguished between civilians and combatants. Prisoners of war captured by the Japanese
Meaning with the power struggle between the united states and Russia such as the space race coming soon they were jumping at any chance to show dominance. On the other side of people believing that it was wrong to bomb Hiroshima others disagreed and said they deserved it because they were not surrendering. With that in mind, The bombing of Hiroshima was an acceleration of the war already under way and was used with the prospects of the unconditional surrender of the forces of the Empire of Japan, The U.S wanted the war over and if they were not going to surrender they had no other choice but to use forceful actions. Another way people supported the fact that there were no human rights violate was that People believed that bombing was righted considering that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. By doing this it was a way of revenge, if the attack on Pearl Harbor didn’t happen then the U.S wouldn’t have gotten involved.
FDR took a different approach with Japan, he viewed the German threat more prevalent than the Japanese. He strategy was to strangle the island into submission through an economic war. Japan was completely dependent on imports and raw materials from other countries, mainly the US to keep the production of wartime materials. In 1938, Roosevelt issued an embargo against Japan, restricting the trade of steel and oil in hopes to bring Japanese expansion to a halt. With only a six month supply of oil in reserve Japan was forced to make a quick decision that would have an enormous impact on world events.