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A 5 page research paper that draws on a book that presents primary documents from the era. The cause of the War in the Pacific during World War II between the United States and Japan is typically attributed simply to the surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. However, this event did not occur in a vacuum, but rather evolved out of the political context of the time and was seen by the Japanese as a logical consequence of the failure of diplomatic negotiations between the US and Japan to resolve the disputes between the two countries. Primary source documents from the months preceding the Japanese attack and the instigation of war reveal that both the US and Japan were intent on maintaining specific positions that they saw as non-negotiable. These positions constitute the causes that led like a fuse to a power keg in initiating the Pacific War. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. However, this event did not occur in a vacuum, but rather evolved out of the political context of the time
and was seen by the Japanese as a logical consequence of the failure of diplomatic negotiations between the US and Japan to resolve the disputes between the two countries. Primary
source documents from the months preceding the Japanese attack and the instigation of war reveal that both the US and Japan were intent on maintaining specific positions that they saw
as non-negotiable. These positions constitute the causes that led like a fuse to a power keg in initiating the Pacific War. However, while these source documents indicate the causes
of war, they do not relate background information as this knowledge is assumed and this knowledge of political and military situation of the time is essential to understanding the context
in which the documents were written. For this reason, editor Akira Iriye addresses this context in his introduction to his review of WWII primary source documents. He relates that the
war in Asia began in September of 1931 when Japanese forces "manufactured an incident and attacked Chinese forces in Mukden, located in southern Manchuria (Iriye 3-4). At that time, China
was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government led by Communists and also because China, like
all other countries at the time, was affected by the worldwide economic depression, Chiang Kai-shek did not retaliate against the Japanese in Manchuria (Iriye 4). Furthermore, the Western countries, while
they voiced their opposition to such aggression, were too preoccupied with their own affairs to offer official sanctions against Japan. Due to this success, the armys influence in Japanese politics
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