Answer:
The Spanish were looking for gold and silver and wanted to convert the natives to Catholosim.
In an effort to discourage Japanese militarism, Western powers including Australia, the United States, Britain, and the Dutch government in exile, which controlled the petroleum-rich Dutch East Indies, stopped selling iron ore, steel and oil to Japan, denying it the raw materials needed to continue its activities in China and French Indochina.
I am pretty sure it is tobacco
