Before the attack on Pearl Harbor
a. the Japanese threatened the United States with outright war if America did not increase its exports to Japan of rubber and steel.
b. Italy and Germany had declared war on the United States.
c. the American Pacific fleet was warned and able to prepare.
d. the United States froze Japanese assets in the United States and cut off exports of steel and oil to Japan.
e. Japan had already caught the United States off-guard by attacking the Philippines.
d
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