Background
Japan
United States
World War II
Long-Term Effects
100

This country relied heavily on imported oil in 1940-1941.

What is Japan?

100

Without the embargo, Japan may have relied more on this instead of war.

What is diplomacy?

100

The United States entered this global conflict after Pearl Harbor.

What is World War II?

100

Germany, Italy, and Japan were known as these powers.

What is the Axis Powers?

100

America's influence in this continent may have been reduced.

What is Asia?

200

The United States placed this restriction on Japan in 1941.

What is an oil embargo?

200

Japan attacked this U.S. naval base in 1941.

What is Pearl Harbor?

200

U.S. wartime production likely would have grown more slowly without this.

What is direct involvement in the war?

200

The Soviet Union may have carried more of this burden without U.S. involvement.

What is fighting Germany?

200

The development of these weapons may have changed.

What are nuclear weapons?

300

Japan moved across this region before the embargo was placed.

What is French Indochina?

300

Japan wanted resources from this region of the world.

What is Southeast Asia?

300

This secret U.S. project developed weapons for military use.

What is the Manhattan Project?

300

The war theater involved Japan and the United States.

What is the Pacific Theater?

300

This conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union may have developed differently.

What is the Cold War?

400

This was on major reason the U.S. worried about Japan.

What is Japanese expansion across Asia.

400

The embargo increased Japan's urgency to do this.

What is expand for resources?

400

Without Pearl Harbor, the U.S. may have remained this longer.

What is neutral?

400

The Allies may have struggled longer against this German leader.

Who is Adolf Hitler?

400

Japan and the U.S. may have maintained stronger relations through this.

What is trade?

500

Japan needed oil mainly for these two things.

What is the military and economy?

500

Without the embargo, this attack on an island between the two countries may not have happened.

What is The Battle of Midway?

500

This U.S. became this after World War II.

What is a global superpower?

500

Without the embargo, this global war may have unfolded very differently.

What is World War II?

500

This type of relationship studies how countries interact with one another.

What are international relations?