ld stop at nothing to get what they wanted. The
             US Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Grew, warned President Roosevelt that Japan wanted to carry
             out plans to dominate China, the Philippines, and British and Dutch possessions in Southeast Asia.
             Grew said that their plans included military force and diplomacy. This proved to be true a year
             later when Japan became the dominant nation in Eastern Asia. During Japan's invasion of China,
             many Americans were killed, causing a rise of an Anti-Japanese assessment in the US, but
             were built even stronger when the American ship Panay was sunk by Japanese planes in
             December 1937. The Japanese apologized profusely about the incident, and the Americans were
             quick to forgive. They wanted no part of a conflict, they only asked that American ships be
             President Roosevelt played it smart by building up the military over the course of a few
             years. He wanted to be prepared if we were to encounter a conflict of any kind. As the US
             armed itself, it also supplied Britain with arms. We gave them several planes and ships to help
             the nation in a time if need, but some people had something to say about it, even though we were
             repaid by Britain giving us leases on several British bases. When Britain couldn't repay,
             however, Roosevelt created the Lend-Lease act, which enabled the US
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