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

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 raw materials

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