• ddplf
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    19 days ago

    Can you elaborate about the Pearl Harbor?

    • ileftreddit@piefed.social
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      18 days ago

      There were, iirc a number of serious trade restrictions and other measures enacted against Japan at the time that virtually guaranteed their declaring war on us. I don’t think Pearl Harbor itself was anticipated though

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        18 days ago

        It’s depressing the degree with which we were taught that Japan basically just bombed the US for no reason other than they were a bloodthirsty race who yearned to go out killing for its own sake. And then we berate them for not teaching history properly.