Which is the BEST reason why the United States sent ships led by Commodore Perry to Japan in 1868?
A) The United States wanted to gain Japan as an ally against China after the Boxer rebellion.
B) The United States had the intention of imperializing Japan in order to expand its' borders.
C) The United States wanted to import more laborers from Japan, in order to expand their growing industrialism.
D) The United States desired to open up trade with Japan, which previously had been mainly closed to trade with foreigners.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

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What made it increasingly difficult for president roosevelt to stay neutral during world war ii?