Japan oil embargo ww2
The US imposed an oil embargo on Japan on August 1st, 1941 to motivate Japan comply with the US demands for Japan to leave Manchuria and stop the imperialism and murders. After Hitler invaded Russia in June 1941, Japan moved into southern Indochina. FDR ordered all Japanese assets frozen. But FDR did not want to cut off oil. As he told his Cabinet on July 18, an embargo meant war, for that would force oil-starved Japan to seize the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies.