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Pearl Harbor episode 2: America on the eve of war

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The Us, Great Britain and Great Britain in the War Against Japan

In 19 forty one, the us was not a super power. There were no super powers in the world at that time. The three powers made an agreement that set tonnage restrictions on their ship building so that there would be something like parody. Japan had walked away from this in the late 19 thirties because it felt unfair to a more assertive japanut essentially what that did as it gave parody to the three powers. In great britain, of course, is the largest navy in the world and both are global powers. Both of those powers have and project their naval strength in the pacific,. It's only concentrated in one place. So in a pacific war

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