The Japanese general staff proposed a preemptive strike against the U.S. navy at Pearl Harbor because it
a. sought control of the oil-rich Dutch East Indies.
b. feared America's land-based air power.
c. feared American superior willpower.
d. had imperialist ambitions in the Americas.
a
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