Answer:
I honestly have no clue what this means but yeah
<span> The US wanted to prevent more war casualties.</span>
<u>Answer:</u>
<u>Church leaders believed their opinions were more important than the truth.</u>
<u>Explanation:</u>
Galileo eventually lost his life for defending the truth. Noteworthy in his defense is the fact he mentioned that the church leaders had greater fondness for their own opinions than for the truth he discovered, which made them deny his discoveries.
It thus shows that they knew it was the <em>truth</em> but denied it.
I would go with D. Because you have to compare each presidency
1.) The Japanese expansion in east Asia began in 1931 with the invasion of Manchuria and continued with a brutal attack on China (specifically southern China)
2.) Japan attacked French Indochina in 1940 as an effort to embargo all imports into China, including war supplies that China purchased from the U.S. This move prompted the United States to embargo all oil exports from Japan. (This one is probably natural resources)
3.) The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in an attempt to completely negate the United States' forces from counterattacking their capture of the Philippine Islands