"Spanish wanted to build their empire, create additional trading ports and routes, expand their military control and convert the native peoples to their religious beliefs. <span>Spanish followed the mercantilism economic method in its American colonies."</span>
Answer regarding a cause of tension leading into World War II:
C. Japan began establishing an empire by attacking and conquering its neighbors.
Context/detail:
The conflicts that became part of World War II actually began earlier than the 1939 start of the war in Europe. In Asia, Japan was beginning its imperial conquests before Hitler and Germany began expanding into Czechoslovakia and invading Poland. Japan invaded the Chinese territory of Manchuria in 1931.
The League of Nations condemned Japan in 1933 for the events in Manchuria, but that did little to stop Japan. Japan withdrew from the League of Nations at that time, and by 1937 began further invasions into Chinese territory. Japan's imperial ambitions even reached the point of genocidal acts such as the massacre at Nanking in 1937-1938.
When Japan moved into French Indochina in 1941, the USA froze all Japanese financial assets in the USA and placed an embargo on all oil and gasoline shipments to Japan. The Japanese viewed the embargo as an act of war, and their attack against the US at Pearl Harbor was (from their viewpoint) a response to US trade sanctions against them.
Answer:
1. Nemesis - A bitter or hated enemy who seems all-powerful.
The word nemesis comes from the Greek <em>némein</em>, meaning "to give what is due". Nemesis was the name of the Greek godess of retribution.
2. Tactic - A plan of action to achieve a military goal.
A tactic is a specific, detailed plain to achieve a goal, and stems from a more general plan that is called strategy.
3. Battery - A group of artillery pieces arranged to form a unit.
A battery is a group of artillery in an army.
4. Emancipation - To liberate or set free from bondage.
Emancipation specifically refers to the advancement of individual, social, and political rights of oppressed people.
5. Compromise - a settlement of a dispute in which two or more sides agree to accept less than they originally wanted.
Self-explanatory.
Explanation:
In recent years, most illegal drugs have entered the US through (D) Mexico; in the 1980s, most came from Colombia.
In the last few years, smugglers have managed to sneak drugs across the border in different ways. Most of them have hidden drugs such as cocaine and heroin in their vehicles or in their shoes. In addition, in the last two decades more than 200 tunnels used to transport marijuana and cocaine have been discovered on the Southwest border. However, in the 1980s, most drugs entered the US from Colombia due to the Medellin Cartel led by Pablo Escobar. This drug cartel processed coca imported from Bolivia and Peru into cocaine and then distributed it through different trafficking routes in the United States, including Florida, California and New York.
