Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must first understand Japanese psychology. In times past they had reason for grievance against the western powers. After wars with China and Russia they felt that we had snatched some of their loot. Therefore, they felt they had as good a right as anyone to help themselves in Asia...
This was a showdown. The U.S. and Japan were nearer war than at any moment of their history. In a speech that was like a cry of pain and rage-and also of disappointment-Japanese Tojo called on his people to purge Asia of British and American exploitation...
...Yakutat, Kodiak, Sitka, Anchorage, from Annette out along Alaska's trunklike Aleutian Islands to Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, men were desperately at work excavating, blasting rock, building a string of fortifications. When the big job was done, the U.S. would have a 2,000-mile flagstone path toward Asia and a natural rampart bristling with man-made ramparts...
Said Premier General Hideki Tojo: "Britain and the United States desire to fish in troubled waters of East Asia...
...honor and pride of mankind, we must purge this sort of practice from East Asia with a vengeance...