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The advantages of a centralized government impliy the following.
After the industrial revolution, the growth of economics worldwide has been lead by large companies that need centralization to be effective.
But in ancient times like the dynasties in China, a central government unified people in order to have a better control of the society. A strong central authority made possible a much better internal operation of rules.
However, centralization has disadvantages like despotism, autocracy and deaf ears to peoples opinions and demands.
In decentralized systems like the Greeks of ancient times, The Assembly had monthly meetings in Athens to discuss the the problems of the city. The meetings were open to the public in a demonstration of civility and the right of hearing to anyone.
Nowadays we find decentralized governments like the U.S. or centralized ones like Cuba.
Answer: B) The rise of authoritarian leaders in countries suffering from the Great Depression
Explanation: There are many factors that led to the Second World War, and everything started after the end of the WWI and the Treaty of Versailles, which required Germany to pay war damages, seizing German territories, an order to reduce the army. This led to a poor economic situation in Germany, especially during the Great Depression, which was also the cause of a bad economic situation in Italy. This was again a trigger for the emergence of totalitarian leaders and regimes in these two countries. The League of Nations did not adequately respond to the growing totalitarian ideas and regimes, even in some situations, for example, the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia by Germany, the League of Nations, thinking that it would satisfy the Nazi agree to such a concession. In one word, the League of Nations did not have the capacity to stop Nazism.
Japan invaded China in 1937 before World War ll started.