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The oil embargo reaches Tokyo
26 Jul–1 Aug 1941 — Washington answers the seizure of southern Indochina by freezing Japan’s assets and cutting off its oil. The fleet burns its reserves from this day; the clock to war now runs in months.
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — The Turn South in The Road to War, 1931–1941.
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