In order to secure reliable sources of rubber, tin, rice, scrap iron and liquid fuel, Japan decided it must
A. seize much of Southeast Asia.
B. attack British Pacific bases in Australia and elsewhere.
C. make arrangements with France and the Soviet Union to get oil and steel.
D. make trade treaties with Nazi Germany.
E. invade and conquer all of China.
Answer: A
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