Introduction
1. The “Great Aberration”
- The Open Door
- The Open Door: 1900
- Bilateral Arrangements With Japan
- The Lansing-Ishii Agreement
- The Washington Conference
- “Outlawing War”
2. The Manchurian Incident
- Japan Explains
- Manchuria and the Kellogg Pact
- The Stimson Doctrine
- Japan Recognizes Manchukuo
- Japan Withdraws From the League
3. Increasing Tension Over China
- Fighting Resumes in China
- Roosevelt Calls for a Quarantine
- The Sinking of the Panay
- Japan’s “New Order” in Asia
4. Japanese Expansion in a World Context
- The Anti-Comintern Pact
- The United States Imposes Economic Controls
- Japan Moves into Indochina
- Japan Joins the Axis
- Grew nd Roosevelt on Japanese Expansion
- The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Treaty
5. “Preliminary Conversations” April-June, 1941
- The Draft Theory
- Japan Offers Her First Draft
- The United States Responds
- Draft Proposals: Round Two
6. Deteriorating
- Japan Outlines Her Policy
- Roosevelt Warns Japan
- Japan Plans for War
7. The Pacific Conference
- Japan Suggests a Solution
- Japan’s Peace Terms for China Restated
- Japan’s Last Formal Draft
- Grew Urges Acceptance
- Hull Rejects the Conference Proposal
8. A Last Diplomatic Effort
- The Stark-Marshall Memorandum
- Japan’s Proposal A
- The Abortive Modus Vivendi
- Hull’s Final Order
- Were the Japanese Sincere?
9. An End to Diplomatic Conversations
- Roosevelt Appeals to the Emporer
- Japan Ends Diplomatic Negotiations
Chronology
Directory
Further Readings