The correct answer is B.
<u>This is part of a radio speech delivered by President Roosevelt in December 1940</u> (this was the second year in WWII, and the US was still neutral in the conflict).
He aimed to convince the audience about the necessity of ensuring a safe defense strategy for Great Britain, so that they were able to avoid the German invasion and resist the many attacks they were suffering.
Apart from the ideological fight against nazism, Roosevelt highlighted how if GB fell, the last territory in the Atlantic, before reaching the US, would have been conquered. That would pose a direct threat on the US. <u>Therefore, he supported the idea that GB should remain free at any cost. </u>
That meant that the South would have been starved of supplies and would have been forced to surrender.
The answer is D. The didn’t keep their costal stronghold.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
Initially, the Crusades were not a religious movement on the part of Europeans against Islam, but in important ways, the Crusades were driven by religious faith.
Between 1096 and 1291, Muslims and Christian fought each other to control what they considered to be sacred sites in the Middle East. By 1096, Muslim troops had captured Constantinople and the pope had to intervened to call all western European nations to unite against Muslims and recover the sacred sites. Many Christian groups were formed to defend property and sacred sites such as the case of the Knights Templar.
