Provided affordable power that allowed the west to develop more rapidly
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Generally speaking, Japan was becoming an Imperial power right before ww 2. They were waging war on China and Manchuria; and some other island nations. Therefore weakening Japan's steel supply was aimed to slow down their momentum.
