Why did Japan attack China in 1937, launching the Second Sino-Japanese War?

to spread communism to other parts of Asia
to secure natural resources for its growing economy and military
to secure a buffer area against a potential Soviet attack on Japan
to retaliate after China’s attack on Japanese port cities

Which best represents the view of the southern delegates at the constitutional convention

Why did the fighting go on after the armistice was signed

Plz which of the following provisions of the compromise of 1850 was designed to appeal to slave states? a. congress passed a strict fugitive slave law. b. the slave trade was banned in washington dc. c. texas agreed to give away some of its land so that the territory would be available for future states. d. california was admitted to the union as a free state.