The correct answer is <span>increased due to decreasing tax rates for the wealthy and stagnating salaries for the middle class
Most of the wages have only slightly increased while the earnings and wealth of the upper class and the big elites had increased drastically because of many tax cuts. People believed that through tax cuts the people would get more money because the companies could give them higher salaries, but it backfired as big companies hoarded extra money.</span>
22 is the third choice. 23 should be the second option. I don’t know the first one.
Explanation:
By mid-1941 the United States had severed all economic relations with Japan and was providing material and financial support to China. Japan had been at war with China since 1937, and the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 ensured that the Soviets were no longer a threat to the Japanese on the Asian mainland. The Japanese believed that once the U.S. Pacific Fleet was neutralized, all of Southeast Asia would be open for conquest.
