What Significant Objective Motivated Japanese Expansion into Southeast Asia and the Pacific

question 1

Multiple Choice

What significant objective motivated Japanese expansion into Southeast Asia and the Pacific during 1940-1941?

• A) an intention to provoke the United States to attack Japan first
• B) the priority of defeating Chinese guerrilla fighters operating in Indochina
• C) a desire to reobtain the Philippines from the United States, which had seized the islands from Japan
• D) the hope of the Japanese Army to stage an invasion of Australia
• E) the expansion's provision of access to vitally needed oil, rubber, and other strategic materials

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