Because they wanted to prevent the energy resources of the Middle East from falling into the hands of Nazi Germany.
They wanted to protect their investments in oil.
No. Standard Oil & other American companies (like Ford) had facilities in Germany & other European nations when the war started. These American companies ceased having control of these facilities once Germany & America were at war.
The Japanese hoped to catch the European colonial powers by surprise by attacking Dutch and British colonies located in Southeast Asia. They also planned to attack U.S. outposts in the Pacific.
Because it drove all Axis forces from North Africa and allowed the Allies access to the oil fields.
To cut off their chances at getting a steady oil supply and controlling the Suez canal. As a British defeat in North Africa would have handed the Axis control of the vast oil reserves in the Middle East and would enable them to open up a Southern Front against Russia by going through Iran.
Kuwait is a huge producer of oil and the U.S. requires a lot of oil. The United States and some other countries did not want Sadaam Hussein to be in charge of so much of the world's oil.
They wanted to protect their investments in oil.
Vietnam is one of the worlds leaders in exporting rubber and palm oil.
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They wanted to protect their investments in oil
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor to prevent the US from interfering as it widened its activities in the western Pacific and invaded the Philippines and several European colonies to get access to oil and other raw materials. The attack on Pearl Harbor had nothing to do with Germany as far as either the Japanese or the Americans were concerned.
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