After annexing French Indochina, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt placed a series of embargoes on Japan until July 1941, when he finally banned the sale of oil. The Japanese were faced with the option of either withdrawing from China and losing face or seizing and securing new sources of raw materials in the resource-rich, European-controlled colonies of South East Asia; primarily the Dutch East Indies. In order to protect their move into South East Asia, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto devised a plan to strike the US Pacific Fleet, then based in Pearl Harbor, and cripple the US, preventing them from coming to the aid of the European-controlled colonies. During the planning phase of this operation, in March 1941, Commander Minoru Genda suggested the bold plan of following up the attack
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| - After annexing French Indochina, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt placed a series of embargoes on Japan until July 1941, when he finally banned the sale of oil. The Japanese were faced with the option of either withdrawing from China and losing face or seizing and securing new sources of raw materials in the resource-rich, European-controlled colonies of South East Asia; primarily the Dutch East Indies. In order to protect their move into South East Asia, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto devised a plan to strike the US Pacific Fleet, then based in Pearl Harbor, and cripple the US, preventing them from coming to the aid of the European-controlled colonies. During the planning phase of this operation, in March 1941, Commander Minoru Genda suggested the bold plan of following up the attack
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| - After annexing French Indochina, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt placed a series of embargoes on Japan until July 1941, when he finally banned the sale of oil. The Japanese were faced with the option of either withdrawing from China and losing face or seizing and securing new sources of raw materials in the resource-rich, European-controlled colonies of South East Asia; primarily the Dutch East Indies. In order to protect their move into South East Asia, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto devised a plan to strike the US Pacific Fleet, then based in Pearl Harbor, and cripple the US, preventing them from coming to the aid of the European-controlled colonies. During the planning phase of this operation, in March 1941, Commander Minoru Genda suggested the bold plan of following up the attack on Pearl Harbor with an amphibious invasion of the islands, to prevent any further US strikes against the operations south. The plan was audacious, but Admiral Yamamoto approved it, and forced the Army, though unwillingly to agree as well. General Yamashita's 25th Army was chosen for the task, although only the 5th and 18th Infantry Divisions where to take part in the upcoming invasion. The stage was then set for the greatest gamble in history.
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