Political Cartoon

Japanese soldier cutting off the legs of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. This is propaganda released just before Pearl Harbor occurred. The significance of cutting off the legs of the octopus is that Asia is cutting off the hold that western culture has always had on them. WWII was a perfect opportunity for Japan to attack because Britain (Winston Churchill) and the U.S. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) were so caught up in what was going on in Europe that they didn't have their eyes on Japan. This is what gave Isoroku Yamamoto and Hideki Tojo the opportunity to target Pearl Harbor.


***FUN FACT: Hideki Tojo ordered a pair of denchers from an American leader. On the dentures the phrase "Remember Pearl Harbor" was drilled into them.