[Marxism] Socialist Policy in World War Two

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 > Japan went to war because it was being strangled by the oil boycott.  

   That was a key reason; seizing the oil supplies in now-Indonesia was 
critical to continuing Japan's war on China.

   In Robert Stinnett's book "Day of Deceit" 
<http://www3.addall.com/New/compare.cgi?dispCurr=USD&id=8910&isbn=0743201299&location=10000&thetime=20090702172543&author=&title=&state=>, 
Stinnett uncovered an October 1940 Naval Intelligence secret strategy memo 
from a mid-level Navy officer who was high enough in the Navy Dept. to be 
CC'ing key admirals linked to FDR. The memo focused on provoking Japan to 
attack and listed out 8 actions the US would have to do to provoke Japan into 
attacking the US. It included things such as moving Pacific Fleet HQ from San 
Francisco to Hawaii (something the Navy Dept. opposed), aggressive probing 
in/near Japanese waters and, of course, cutting off scrap iron and oil 
shipments to Japan.

   The US implemented all 8 of the steps before Japan decided to attack. 
Stinnett's claim was that a Japanese attack on the US was needed in order for 
the US to enter the war in a united manner. At that time, the US was already 
de facto fighting Germany by attacking U-boats, but the Germans weren't 
taking the bait. So, the author maintains, the US decided to enter the war 
via Japan and the Axis pact of military alliances.

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