Because of the geography, the Japanese relied on the sea for many aspects of daily life. The terrain is mountainous which means there is not a lot of good land for farming since japan is located on a chain of islands called archipelago made up of four main islands and thousands of smaller ones.
One of the major flaws of the Articles of Confederation was that it didn't establish any mechanism of governance to deal with interstate disputes or anyway to enforce laws or agreements across the colonies. Because the Articles of Confederation established such a weak central authority the Constitution was explicitly written to correct this problem, and establish a government that could govern the states in an effective way so that they could function as a nation.
A strong belief in nationalism, I goodled it :)
The answer is B. The Marshall Plan was made to lend mainly Germany money post-war, however what the US really wanted to happen was the Germans would take the money to pay back Britain and France who would then in turn pay the US back for aid lenses during the war. Although in the end it resulted in massive inflation in Germany and caused a worldwide economic slump that last for almost a decade because in the end the money wasn't making its way around the circle.
