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The cause of the Japanese invasion is when the Americans emabargoed an oil trade against Japan. Oil, you have to understand is like the feeding fuel for all war machines. Oil has been fought over not only today with the Americans in the Middle East, but in World War II as well. The Germans invaded Russia because they had rich resources and oil fields. Same with Japan, oil was something that their military depended on. When the United States emargoed trade against Japan, this triggered them to invade islands all over the Asia-Pacific area owned by the United States. Two reasons, they were angry. And, these islands had that lovely war juice called "oil". The Philippines, was a major United States military and naval base in the Pacific Ocean. The Philippines, also had oil; the Japanese bombed the Philippines and destroyed a bunch of inactive American war-planes. Just as America was about to grant the Philippines its independance, Japan went in and invaded. This caused, the United States and Japan to battle each other in the Philippines. But see, the U.S troops in the Philippines were not prepared for this. The United States was a military superpower that is, but they were not prepared to have important island bases like Philippines, Hawaii and Guam invaded. So the U.S troops in Philippines ended up suffering and losing 3/4 of their battles against the Japanese. There was a lot of victories, but the U.S troops just really didn't have the means. Supplies and reinforcements couldn't even get to the Philippines because Japan blocked all of it. So the U.S ended up surrendering the Philippines, but returned to liberate it in 1945.

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