Given here are four sentences. The first sentence is in the correct order, while the rest of the sentences are jumbled. Pick the option that gives the correct order.

A. Although Japan continued to negotiate with the United States up to the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, 

B. the way for the unhindered Japanese conquest of all of Southeast Asia and the Indonesian archipelago would be open.

C. the government of Prime Minister Tōjō Hideki decided on war. Adm. Yamamoto Isoroku, the commander in chief of Japan’s Combined Fleet, 

D. had planned the attack against the U.S. Pacific Fleet with great care and once the U.S. fleet was out of action,