<span>The United States. With 41 million native speakers of Spanish and another 11.6 million who are bilingual, the United States has become the world's second-largest Spanish-speaking country, according to a 2015 report of the Cervantes Institute. It is second only to Mexico and is ahead of Colombia and Spain in third and fourth places.</span>
D. Ensure that European countries had roughly equal power
Answer:
Explanation:
Japan was using the money from the US to support there war efforts. The US cut off financial help to Japan because of that and joined the axis powers with Europe. Then Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and pulled the US into WWII. Then the US went and blew up Japan with Nuclear bombs and took control of their military.
There were several different factors that caused the US to become a part of the imperialist movement, including:
1) Industrialization- The invention of technologies that allowed for the mass production of goods allowed businesses to make more of their products than ever before. Due to their increased ability to make large sums of goods, these individuals wanted the US to expand their global influence so that they may have new consumers to sell their products too.
2) Social Darwinism- This idea revolves around the concept of the "survival of the fittest." Many Americans felt that the US was a superior society that should spread its ideas and influence in order to help less civilized countries/territories.
