Timeline for Where did Japan get their oil during WWII?
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| Jun 4, 2020 at 17:09 | comment | added | Schwern | @3244611user You should ask that as its own question. You'll get better answers. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:30 | comment | added | 3244611user | I heard it often said that at least in Germany a lot of natural oil consumption was substituted with gas from pyrolysis/gasification of e.g. wood and coal. Can you comment on that? | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 23:41 | comment | added | Schwern | @DevSolar I think you're taking that to mean they sent a note saying "we're going to attack you if you don't do X". That's rarely how it works. Japanese expansionist policies, powerful navy, alliance with the Axis, anti-colonial policies (at least in name), takeover of Vichy French holdings, and disregard for treaties made the Japanese a threat to US interests and holdings in the Pacific, particularly the very exposed Philippines. There were many negotiations to try and defuse the coming conflict. As for the DEI/Indonesia, that wasn't attacked until after Pearl Harbor. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 13:24 | comment | added | DevSolar | At no point prior to the US embargo did Japan "threaten the US". I am not trying to absolve them in any way or form, but what they did was attack China, Indochina, and the Dutch East Indies. The US embargo was a result of political alliances. (Same as England and France being the ones declaring war on Germany, not vice versa. Germany still started the war by attacking Poland, but let's keep facts straight.) | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 7:08 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2015 at 6:28 | comment | added | default locale |
Great answer! Would you be able to provide a reference to this part: The USSR also continued trading oil with Japan? This part is surprising if you take into account the devastating effect of WWII on USSR. Actually, United States transferred more than 2 million tons of petroleum to the Soviet Union.
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| Nov 10, 2015 at 16:03 | comment | added | trippt02 | This was the answer I was looking for. Thank you. | |
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| Nov 10, 2015 at 3:14 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 10, 2015 at 3:06 | comment | added | WS2 | Very good summary. Note also the importance of the area formerly known as British North Borneo, (nowadays part of Malaysia, as Sabah, and Sarawak). It was a big oil producer for Japan, the fields having been developed by Standard Oil and Shell in the early 1900s. It remains today on of the biggest oil and natural gas producers in Asia. . | |
| Nov 9, 2015 at 19:12 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 9, 2015 at 18:56 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 9, 2015 at 18:49 | history | answered | Schwern | CC BY-SA 3.0 |