They were instructed to do? Is this a multiple choice question can you please give the topic as well?
Ethos is the ethical appeal meaning to convince someones credibility. I think that B or C would be the right answer.
You could say "i believe what alfred was trying to say was ...."
The answer is that there were Italian Fascism in the 1920's <span>Japanese militarism and invasions of China in the 1930s, and especially the political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Hitler and his Nazi Party and its aggressive foreign policy.</span>