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The meaning of the word incredulous, based on its parts is: "full of disbelief".
The prefix in- is one of the many prefixes that mean "no". So it denies the meaning of the word following it. One example would be the word inefficient. By adding the prefix in- to the adjective efficient, we deny the adjective. If we call a person inefficient, we are saying the person is "not efficient", not able to finish tasks in a proper time and manner.
As for the other part of the word we're analyzing here, "credulous" comes from the Latin word "credere", which means "believe". A credulous person is a person who believes in things easily, without questioning or reasoning.
By putting in- and credulous together, we form "incredulous", or "not credulous". So an incredulous person is a person who does not believe easily - who is full of disbelief.
Answer: The power grabbing of the Axis countries implies that the United States must ramp up its preparations for war.
Explanation:
You included no paragraphs or reference to any passages so I gave the best answer I could based on general historical knowledge.
From the moment Japanese soldiers invaded Manchuria and German soldiers remilitarized the Rhine, the Axis powers of Germany, Japan and Italy began to capture more and more territory until the second World War broke out.
The U.S. all the way on the other side of the Atlantic and the Pacific (Japanese perspective), watched with some alarm especially when the world thought that Britain would fall. As a result, the U.S. began to ramp up preparations for war such that when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. were not completely unprepared for war.
