Feis Road to Pearl Harbor

The Coming of the War Between the United States and Japan
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6828-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 370 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

This is a probing narrative of the history which came to its climax at Pearl harbor; an account of the attitudes and actions, of the purposes and persons which brought about the war between the United States and Japan.

It is full and impartial. Though written as an independent and private study, records and information of an exceptional range and kind were used in its making. These give it authority. They include all the pertinent State Department papers; the American official military records in preparation; selections from the Roosevelt papers at Hyde Park; the full private diaries of Stimons, Morgenthau, and Grew; the file of the intercepted "Magic" cables; and equivalent collections of official and private Japanese records. The author was at the time in the State Department (as Adviser on International Economic Affairs) and thus in close touch with the men and matters of which he writes.

In telling how this war came about, this book tells much of how other wars happen. For it is a close study of the ways in which officials, diplomats, and soldiers think and act; of the environment of decision, of the ambitions of nations, of the clash of their ideas, of the way sin which fear and mistrust affect events, and of the struggle for time and advantage.

The narrative follows events in a double mirror of which one side is Washington and the other Tokyo, and synchronizes the images. Thus it traces the ways in which the acts and decisions of this country influenced Japan and vice versa.

Originally published in 1950.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Feis, Herbert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. vi
Contents, pg. xii
1. The Arc of Opposition, pg. 3
2. The Last, Lost Good Chance: 1937, pg. 8
3. 1937-39: Japan Goes Deeper into the Stubble, pg. 17
4. The Dismay of the Japanese Strategists: August, 1939, pg. 25
5. Separation but Still not Enmity: the Winter of 1939-40, pg. 38
6. The First Waves of German Victory Reach the Southwest Pacific: April, 1940, pg. 49
7. The Grave Dilemma before the United States: May, 1940, pg. 56
8. Japan Starts on the Road South: June, 1940, pg. 66
9. The American Government Forbears, pg. 72
10. Japan Selects a New Government, pg. 76
11. Japan Stencils Its Policy in Indelible Ink: July, 1940, pg. 84
12. Our First Firm Counteraction, pg. 88
13. Maneuver and Resistance, pg. 95
14. We Stop the Shipment of Scrap Iron, pg. 101
15. The Making of the Alliance with the Axis: September, 1940, pg. 110
16. We Draw Closer to Britain, pg. 122
17. After Our Elections: Steps towards a Concerted Program, pg. 133
18. Matsuoka Pursues the Great Combination, pg. 145
19. At the Same Time Japan Continues to Seek the Best Road South, pg. 150
20. Diplomacy by Gesture and Signal: American Policy in the Winter of 1940-41, pg. 153
21. We Reach a World-Wide Strategic Accord with Britain: March, 1941, pg. 165
22. Hull and Nomura Begin the Search for Formulas of Peace, pg. 171
23. Matsuoka Goes to Berlin and Moscow, and Returns with a Neutrality Pact, pg. 180
24. The Two Faces of Japanese Diplomacy Glare at One Another: April, 1941, pg. 188
25. Would Japan Stand Still While We Extended Ourselves in the Atlantic? The Spring of 1941, pg. 196
26. Japan Chafes and Germany Invades the Soviet Union: May- June, 1941, pg. 202
27. Japan Makes the Crucial Decision: July 2, 1941, pg. 209
28. The Konoye Cabinet Resigns—to Get Rid of Matsuoka, pg. 219
29. The United States and Britain Prepare to Impose Sanctions, pg. 227
30. We Freeze Japan's Funds, pg. 236
31. Was Japan to Have Any More Oil?, pg. 242
32. The Choice before Japan Is Defined; and Konoye Seeks a Meeting with Roosevelt, pg. 251
33. Roosevelt Meets Churchill; Argentia and After: August 1941, pg. 255
34. The Japanese High Command Demands That the Issue with the United States Be Faced and Forced, pg. 261
35. The Idea of a Roosevelt-Konoye Meeting Dies; the Deadlock Is Complete: October, 1941, pg. 271
36. The Army Insists on a Decision for War; Konoye Quits; Tojo Takes Over, pg. 282
37. The Last Offers to the United States Are Formulated: November 5, 1941, pg. 291
38. November: The American Government Stands Fast and Hurries Its Preparations, pg. 298
39. Japan's Final Proposal for a Truce Is Weighed and Found Wanting, pg. 307
40. As Stubborn as Ever: the American Answer, November 26, 1941, pg. 320
41. The Last Arrangements and Formalities for War, pg. 326
42. The Clasp of War Is Closed, pg. 333
Index, pg. 343