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Japan planned a large-scale attack against the U.S. naval fleet at Pearl Harbor because it wanted to

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Answer: give itself time to secure control of East Asia before the U.S. military could respond.

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Japan intended the attack as a preventive action. Its aim was to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and those of the United States.

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