What were the main causes of the second world war?
In the Pacific, the Japanese government had been taken over by the military industrialists, and they needed fuel to continue their boom. They invaded Manchuria to steal the coal there, but soon set their sights on the oil fields in what used to be called The Dutch East Indies, but today is called Indonesia. When the US cut off oil and scrap iron sales to Japan as sanctions against further incursions into the Asian main land, the Imperial High Command commissioned Admiral Yamamoto to come up with a plan that would knock America out of a Pacific war for a year or two while Japan seized the oil.
