The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because
A) President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be in Malaysia or the Philippines.
B) no American officials suspected that Japan might start a war with the United States.
C) Japanese communications were in a secret code unknown to the United States.
D) the United States was, at the time, Japan's main source of oil and steel.
E) it was believed that Japan had insufficient aircraft carriers to reach Hawaii.
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