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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (204458)9/27/2006 7:26:31 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<I suppose that the US could have let the Japanese take over the entire Pacific Rim, and you'd be bowing to the Emperor now.>

I'm glad you picked that one CB [as I expected]. I worried that there was something which I'd have trouble answering. That one is so trivial it's not even fun.

The USA didn't get into a war with Japan to defend NZ. NZ wasn't even an issue. The USA was interested in stopping Japan for their own reasons and benefits. The same as NZ was interested in stopping Adolf marching around Europe for our own benefit, not as an altruistic, slavish concern for France or Belgium.

Here's a history test to go with your algebra test. Multichoice:

The USA went to war against Japan to:

1.....Save New Zealand from being forced into the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity sphere.

2.....To reduce Adolf's military supply sources.

3.....To save China from occupation by Japan and to avenge the "rape of Nanking"

4.....To ensure Toyotas were made available to Americans to avoid global warming.

5.....To make sure USA nuclear bombs worked and to show the USSR what they'd get if they didn't pull down the Berlin wall.

6.....To establish military bases close to China and to provide a launch-pad for the Korean war.

Go on, see if you can pick the thing that got the USA so riled up that they just had to go to war against Japan, not stopping until they had unconditional surrender, after use of weapons of mass destruction against civilians.

Mqurice

--- answer... it was to save New Zealand from Japanese invasion.
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