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“On July 2, 1940, Roosevelt signed the Export Control Act, authorizing the President to license or prohibit the export of essential defense materials.” Under this authority, “on July 31, exports of aviation motor fuels and lubricants and No. 1 heavy melting iron and steel scrap were restricted.” Next, in a move aimed at Japan, Roosevelt slapped an embargo, effective October 16, “on all exports of scrap iron and steel to destinations other than Britain and the nations of the Western Hemisphere.” Finally, on July 26, 1941, Roosevelt “froze Japanese assets in the United States, thus bringing commercial relations between the nations to an effective end. One week later Roosevelt embargoed the export of such grades of oil as still were in commercial flow to Japan.”The British and the Dutch followed suit, embargoing exports to Japan from their colonies in southeast Asia."

https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=1930

“On July 2, 1940, Roosevelt signed the Export Control Act, authorizing the President to license or prohibit the export of essential defense materials.” Under this authority, “on July 31, exports of aviation motor fuels and lubricants and No. 1 heavy melting iron and steel scrap were restricted.” Next, in a move aimed at Japan, Roosevelt slapped an embargo, effective October 16, “on all exports of scrap iron and steel to destinations other than Britain and the nations of the Western Hemisphere.” Finally, on July 26, 1941, Roosevelt “froze Japanese assets in the United States, thus bringing commercial relations between the nations to an effective end. One week later Roosevelt embargoed the export of such grades of oil as still were in commercial flow to Japan.”The British and the Dutch followed suit, embargoing exports to Japan from their colonies in southeast Asia." https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=1930

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dealing with the Soviets

One of the great problems in WW2 was that the Japs were not dealing with the Soviets. They really let Uncle Adolf down by signing that non-aggression pact with Stalin. Though we really let him down as well in the sense that the Japanese were set to conquer Eastern Russia during WW1, and had sent in at least 60,000 troops to do that, but faggot Woodrow Wilson invaded Russia with our guys and used our guys to stop the Japs long enough that the (((Bolsheviks))) could consolidate military power and secure the nation.

Weirdly, there is this myth in mainstream history that Stalin had a super-yuge mega-army stashed away in Siberia to beat back the Jap, and that he then recalled it to whup the Wehrmacht. I wonder why that is.

Though, in the Jap's defense, at the end of WW2 the Red Army completely crushed the Japs--it wasn't even a contest--so if they had attacked the USSR during WW2 it might not have ended too well for them.