Answer:
being poor, not having enough to eat and keep warm
Explanation:
2.1 Chief Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
2.2 Court of Appeals and Solicitor General.
2.3 U.S. Supreme Court.
The right answer is "B. Japan was prolonging a terrible and bloody war that had an inevitable outcome."
Throughout the text it is notable that the US is showing that the terrible consequences that the Japan was going through was because Japan was extending the war.
This is quite clear in the passage. "also, because of their leaders' refusal to accept the declaration of surrender that would honorably honor Japan's end to this useless war, we used our atomic bomb."
in an effort to....
destroy pertinent American fleet units, then preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya and to enable Japan to conquer Southeast Asia without interference.