I cannot find the list, but I did see WWII and it was stated in the blurb that it all came down to one man, Adolf Hitler.
First of all, there were two protagonists, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany.
First, let's look at Japan...
Nationalist leaders in Japan desired to unite all of Asia under one emperor, an ideology known as hakkô ichiu.
In order to execute this ideology and grow its military, Japan needed more natural resources to increase its industrial productivity and strength. Japan did not want to be reliant on other countries for these resources, so the Japanese military leaders who directed their still feudal society ordered the invasion of resource-rich colonies. Japan's leaders soon decided on invading neighboring China, specifically the province of Manchuria in 1931.
China was weak due to the civil war with Communists led by Mao Ze Dong. Due to the Nationalist Chinese forces, led by Chiang Kai-Shek, preoccupation with the Communists, they did not resist the invading Japanese at first. Instead, China turned to the League of Nations for help. The League of Nations set various deadlines for Japan to withdraw, which Japan ignored, showing the increasing erosion of the League's ability to halt or minimize aggression. The United States failed to retaliate with any military or economic action at this time. When Japan formed the puppet state Manchukuo in Manchuria, both the United States and the League of Nations refused to recognize it as a legitimate entity causing Japan to withdraw from the League in 1933, further weakening this paper tiger based in Geneva, Switzerland. That same year, Japan invaded and took control of Jehol a neighboring province.
By 1939, the United States finally started to challenge Japan's actions in China by pulling out of trade mutual agreements.
So WWII had its early roots in the far west of the Pacific Ocean Areas in 1931, two years before Adolf Hiltler assumed the Chancellorship of Germany in 1933.
Why did Imperial Japan attack the United States of America at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
After Japanese forces invaded French Indochina (modern Vietnam and Cambodia) in June 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull implemented a ban on iron, steel and oil exports to Japan, jointly with Australia and the United Kingdom.
Japan’s Pacific-spanning Empire, and its oil guzzling navy and military, depended on oil—and Japan had been importing 80 percent of it from the United States. Tokyo did have fifty-three million gallons of oil in reserve—a supply which could sustain its Empire for roughly a year during normal operations.
However, Japan soon realized that it would have to withdraw from its Empire unless it could obtain more oil. There was a convenient supply of oil in the Dutch colonies of the East Indies. As the United Kingdom and its Royal Navy were tied down fighting Nazi Germany and the Netherlands was already occupied by Nazi Germany, Japanese forces could likely use their existing oil reserve to capture the vital oil wells—but with the likely consequence of drawing the United States into war.
Admiral Yamamoto, chief of the Imperial Navy and a Harvard graduate who was well aware of America's industrial might, warned the Japanese militarists that he could only guarantee Japan six months of victories—but he dutifully went ahead and planned the Pearl Harbor attack, which by any conventional military standard was an extraordinary success. Japan’s simultaneous amphibious invasions of the Dutch East Indies, Singapore, Burma, Hong Kong, Malaya and the eventual defeat of the US Army forces in the Philippines, commanded by General Douglas MacArthur, succeeded spectacularly.
While the Pearl Harbor attack destroyed the Pacific Fleet's battleships, it had failed to eliminate the most important elements of U.S. power projection—its force of aircraft carriers, each carrying a hundred fighters, torpedo planes and dive bombers which could attack targets up to two hundred miles away. And it narrowly missed the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6, whose aircraft were flying into bases at Pearl Harbor as the Big E was returning from a patrol to the southwest. The Japanese had also failed to bomb the oil and fuel storage tanks allowing Pearl Harbor to operate as a forward base even as the damaged ships were repaired. Had these tanks been destroyed, the US Pacific Fleet would have had to retire to San Diego.
After the six months of Japanese victories which Admiral Yamamoto had promised, U.S. carriers sank four of the six Japanese carriers which had attacked Pearl Harbor in the Battle of Midway in June 1942—and subsequently embarked on an “island hopping” campaign that relentlessly dismantled the Japanese Empire over the next three years, beginning with Guadalcanal in August of 1942.
Thus we can see that the Pacific conflict was played out between the graduated response of President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull to Japanese aggression, forcing the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor, among other strategic targets, over the six month period foretold by Admiral Yamamoto.
The Japanese had simply failed to grasp the industrial base of the USA. The B-24 bomber became the most produced aircraft in the world, with over 18,500 manufactured and some 4,600 built at Ford's Willow Run Plant. The US built some 127 aircraft carriers of all sizes and types (big {Midway Class - CVB}, fleet, light, escort and paddle-wheel training carriers used in the Great Lakes) during WWII.
Yet, having heard that Japan had crushed the US Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Chancellor and Führer Adolf Hitler almost immediately declared war on America. With his troops freezing before Moscow and his half-tracks, trucks and tanks unable to start in the -30C temperatures, he felt that the Japanese would begin to exert pressure on the Soviet Far East thereby reducing pressure on him. However Stalin's STAVKA and General Zhukhov were able to mobilize some 182 rifle divisions, 43 militia rifle divisions, eight tank divisions, three mechanised divisions, 62 tank brigades, 50 cavalry divisions, 55 rifle brigades, 21 naval rifle brigades, 11 naval infantry brigades from June through October in what was the largest Soviet mobilization ever undertaken in war.
Had Hitler not ordered every German unit to stand and fight where they were in the frozen snow, this massive Soviet juggernaut might have steamrolled over them. The Nazis held, winter clothes and fresh replacements began to arrive and the front was stabilized.
See:
https://www.operationbarbarossa.net/the-siberian-divisions-and-the-battle-for-moscow-in-1941-42/
Read:
"But Not In Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor" by John Toland, Random House, 1961.
Dated but an excellent overview of the US and our Allies being beaten to the punch, over and over. - Hartmann352
"Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in WWII" by Arthur Herman, Random House, 2013.
"Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor" by Daniel Madsen, US Naval Institute Press, 2013.

President Franklin Roosevelt

Secy of State Cordell Hull

Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941, Battleship Row, the Battle Fleet is on fire and sinking.

USS Enterprise CV-6, nicknamed 'The Big E' by her crew, was launched in 1936, commissioned in 1938, one of only three pre-war aircraft carriers to survive WWII. Her sister ships were lost in action: USS Yorktown CV-5 at Midway and USS Hornet CV-8, who carried The Doolittle Raiders*in April of 1942, was lost in the Battle of Santa Cruz in October of 1942.

Hitler is shown here during his whirlwind tour of Paris, France, on June 23, 1940, following the Nazi Blitzkrieg which crushed France and Europe's largest army. He is shown here
with his personal architect and rare personal friend, Albert Speer, on the left and artist and sculptor, Arno Breker, on the right.