The correct answer is A) the expansion of a nations’ authority through territorial conquest.
<em>Imperialism is the expansion of a nations’ authority through territorial conquest. </em>
Imperialism is the ideology or political belief that extended power of domination of other nation is a way to exert control and dominion of that territory. In the past, it was common for a powerful nation to invade the other nation and forced to follow its political and economic regulations. The powerful country considered that imperialism was the way to establish dominance in the international scene. Not only through the military, a country can have imperialistic practices. In could be through economic control and dependence that one powerful country can exert control over another one.
Stalin was interested in another front as a result of the Soviet Union being under a situation in which they were experiencing losses on the eastern front.
The Allies avoided doing this until 1944 because they wanted to mete out extreme damage on Germany as well as ruin the ability of Germans in making war.