slaphead:
What sort of logic is that? Why should the Empire of Japan accept a bunch of funny-colored foreigners ordering them about? Regardless of the background, announcing “stop doing what you want and start doing what I want or I’m gonna make you my bitch” is overtly hostile, and that’s exactly what the US was saying to Japan.
Hahaha. Imperial Japan chose invasion and war as the way to achieve it’s sovereign policies. No one forced them to chose that path. That was their choice and their responsibility.
And I’m pretty sure that you don’t speak for everyone participating in this thread but you have my permission to think that you do.
Leo_Bloom:
Amazing factoid. Cite?
Interesting if a cite could be found, but I’m holding my breath.
mlees
February 12, 2015, 7:19pm
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Leo_Bloom:
Another amazing fact.
Just in case this was another cite request:
The Two-Ocean Navy Act, also known as the Vinson–Walsh Act, was a United States law enacted on July 19, 1940, and named for Carl Vinson and David I. Walsh, who chaired the Naval Affairs Committee in the House and Senate respectively. In what was then the largest naval procurement bill to date in U.S. history, it increased the size of the United States Navy by 70%.
Modest naval expansion programs had been implemented by the Vinson–Trammell Act of 1934 and the Naval Act of 1938. In early June 194...
On June 17, a few days after German troops conquered France, Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark requested four billion dollars from Congress to increase the size of the American combat fleet by 70% by adding 257 ships amounting to 1,325,000 tons. On June 18, after less than an hour of debate, the House of Representatives by a 316–0 vote authorized $8.55 billion for a naval expansion program, giving emphasis to aircraft.
