Answer: B. Americans did not believe Japan threatened them directly.
Prior to World War II, America had a foreign policy of non-intervention. This meant that they tended to act against a foreign power only when directly threatened.
In 1937, the Chinese and Japanese troops had a minor engagement in which aggression led them to engage in an undeclared war between the two countries. This was influential in the Japanese way of thinking that ultimately encouraged them to join the Axis. However, because the US did not believed Japan to be a direct threat, it did not take any action to address this aggression.
<h3>Answer: Other historians view Manifest Destiny as an excuse to be selfish. They believe that it was an excuse Americans used to allow them to push their culture and beliefs on everyone in North America. Historians believed that expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the people.</h3>
Romans preferred a much more regular, rational layout and plan. They inherited the Greek tradition of city planning on rectangular grids but they refined it to include more open space and central public focus: the forum, a kind of city center where the most important civic buildings, temples and monuments would be located.
