Japan Chose to Attack the United States Because

Japan chose to attack the United States because

A) in protest of Japanese actions in southeast Asia, the U.S. had refused to continue supplying Japan with industrial materials.
B) racist propaganda had convinced the Japanese that Americans needed to be exterminated.
C) the Nazis asked them to do it.
D) trade with the United States was not important to Japan.
E) it was Japan's main rival for influence in China.