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Why didn't FDR do anything when Japan invaded China? What did he consider?

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FDR believed that Japan was the aggressor, but he saw Germany as the larger threat. Isolationist laws also constrained what he could do and he didn't want to anger Japanese moderates. He thought about "quarantining" Japan, but eventually settled on just banning the export of war material to Japan?