Did FDR Know About Pearl Harbor?

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where starting to strain everywhere, and threatened to bankrupt such naval competition.
Major powers met in Washington to limit naval armament and try to ensure security in the Pacific. The Depression left the limitations to continue through the Thirties. However weapons stocking pilling is only a result from national rivalries, not the cause of them. The Depression and First World War were the major parts in the origins of the Second World War. WWI removed powers from the Far East, which had been shaping the region for the past 70 to 80 years. Russia was basically eliminated as a major power in the Far East for at least a decade only to return as an enemy of Japan. Most European powers where removed from Asia and Japan quickly took over many of Germanys former holding in China. The removal of European presence gave Japan a great advantage in control over Asian matters. Japan tried her power with “twenty-one Demands” where Japan tried to become China’s overlord after China collapse to civil war in 1916. Although Japan was denied in it...