Throughout 1941 Japan's unflagging determination to establish a 'Greater East Asia' threatened to draw the whole of the Pacific area directly into the orbit of the European war. Far Eastern politics was dominated by one primary question: Would Japan's continued program of aggressive territorial expansion, buttressed since Sept. 27, 1940, by military alliance with the Axis powers, lead to a merging of the wars in Europe and Asia? The answer was given on Dec. 7 at Pearl Harbor.
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Early War Scare.
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