The road to Pearl Harbor : the coming of the war between the United States and Japan / by Herbert Feis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The arc of opposition -- The last, lost good chance: 1937 -- 1937-39: Japan goes deeper into the stubble -- The dismay of the Japanese strategists: August, 1939 -- Separation but still not enmity: the winter of 1939-40 -- The first waves of German victory reach the southwest Pacific: April, 1940 -- The grave dilemma before the United States: May, 1940 -- Japan starts on the road south: June, 1940 -- The American government forbears -- Japan selects a new government -- Japan stencils its policy in indelible ink: July, 1940 -- Our first firm counteraction -- Maneuver and resistance -- We stop the shipment of scrap iron -- The making of the alliance with the Axis: September, 1940 -- We draw closer to Britain -- After our elections: steps towards a concerted program -- Matsuoka pursues the great combination -- At the same time Japan continues to seek the best road south -- Diplomacy by gesture and signal: American policy in the winter of 1940-41 -- We reach a world-wide strategic accord with Britain: March, 1941 -- Hull and Nomura begin the search for formulas of peace -- Matsuoka goes to Berlin and Moscow, and returns with a neutrality pact -- The two faces of Japanese diplomacy glare at one another: April, 1941 -- Would Japan stand still while we extended ourselves in the Atlantic? The spring of 1941 -- Japan chafes and Germany invades the Soviet Union: May-June, 1941 -- Japan makes the crucial decision: July 2, 1941 -- The Konoye cabinet resigns, to get rid of Matsuoka -- The United States and Britain prepare to impose sanctions -- We freeze Japan's funds -- Was Japan to have any more oil? -- The choice before Japan is defined; and Konoye seeks a meeting with Roosevelt -- Roosevelt meets Churchill; Argentia and after: August 1941 -- The Japanese high command demands that the issue with the United States be faced and forced -- The idea of a Roosevelt-Konoye meeting dies; the deadlock is complete: October, 1941 -- The army insists on a decision for war; Konoye quits; Tojo takes over -- The last offers to the United States are formulated: November 5, 1941 -- November: the American government stands fast and hurries its preparations -- Japan's final proposal for a truce is weighed and found wanting -- As stubborn as ever: the American answer, November 26, 1941 -- The last arrangements and formalities for war -- The clasp of war is closed.