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Film, Video Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor

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Title

  • Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor

Summary

  • Was the bombing of Pearl Harbor an unprovoked attack on the United States? According to a new book by Edward S. Miller, the Japanese motivation stemmed from U.S. plans to defeat Japan economically in the years before World War II. Miller discussed his book, "Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor" in a program sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Division. In his book published by the Naval Institute Press, Miller contends that the United States forced Japan into international bankruptcy to deter its aggression. The Japanese government had a huge cache of dollars fraudulently hidden in New York. In July 1941, President Roosevelt froze the money to "bring Japan to its senses, not its knees," Miller asserts. Roosevelt's intentions were thwarted, however, by U.S. bureaucrats who were determined to deny Japan the dollars needed to buy oil and other resources for economic survival. Miller demonstrates that the deprivations facing the Japanese people as a result of the fund cutoff buttressed Japan's choice of war at Pearl Harbor.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2008-01-15.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  Government, Law
  • -  Presidents
  • -  War, Military

Notes

  • -  Classification: General Works.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Military Science.
  • -  Classification: Naval Science.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Edward Miller.
  • -  Recorded on 2008-01-15.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687906

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  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Researcher And Reference Services Division. Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-15, 2008. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687906/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Researcher And Reference Services Division, S. B. (2008) Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-15. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687906/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Researcher And Reference Services Division. Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-15, 2008. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687906/>.