They have been looked down upon for decades and possibly centuries. It had become a sort of a social norm in a sense to view them that way, hence all of the public opinion has shaped how we think of them today.
Answer: Oil.
Japan wanted southern Indochina's supply of oil as they were starved for it and unable to maintain their military. On the same day they attacked Pearl Harbour they also attacked the Philippines to gain access to this oil. The attack on Pearl Harbour was to prevent any armada of US ships from retaking the Philippines, which they succeeded at doing.
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Answer:
d. Churchill and Stalin became allies.
Explanation:
- 4/23/1941 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain Winston Churchill sends a letter to the Prime Minister of the USSR, Joseph Stalin, informing him that the German Government is preparing an attack on the USSR.
- July 18, 1941 USSR Prime Minister Joseph Stalin sent a letter to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill: demanded that the United Kingdom open a second front in the west (in northern France) and in northern Europe (in the Arctic).
- 7/20/1941 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain Winston Churchill replies to the Prime Minister of the USSR, Joseph Stalin, that the Germans have 40 divisions in France and that the British have no opportunity to open another front in either France or the Arctic.
- September 15, 1941 USSR Prime Minister Joseph Stalin sent a letter to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, requesting that the United Kingdom open a second front in the West or send twenty-five to thirty divisions via the Archangel or Iran .
- October 25, 1941 US Prime Minister Winston Churchill, through the British Ambassador to Moscow, informs USSR Prime Minister Joseph Stalin that the UK has no possibility of sending 25-30 Divisions through the USSR Archangel or Iran.
- August 12, 1942 Multi-day talks (Moscow Conference) begin between the Prime Minister of the USSR, Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Averell Harriman, US Presidential Envoy discussing general plans for future federal operations.