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Japan believed that Great Britain and the US would hamper its efforts to control all of China and southeast Asia. Japan sought to put the US Navy in dire straits by attacking the US's main Pacific naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The US was forced to declare war on Japan in December of 1941 to counter the efforts of Japan to dominate the Pacific Ocean.

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