<span>A company expanding its business by buying a competing company.</span>
It has to be Austria and Hungary - by then they were two separate countries. The other three were Allies and along with britain they occupied Germany in 1945.
It is defiantly not stocks, and not bonds because those are investing in something that can flip on you and make you lose your money... so i think it would be bank accounts
For the second question the one that is incorrect is Choctaw
The correct answer is D.
Direct democracy is exercised when voters, instead of electing political representatives that would govern and conduct policymaking on their behalf, are directly involved and can choose to support those policies that they consider to be more appropiate. <u>Option D is the only situation in which the policy choice is directly made by citizens. </u>
<em>Options A, B or C cannot be correct because in all of them the decision-making is performed by a body or an institution constituted by representatives that have been elected by citizens: the Congress, the town hall or the President. </em>
Nowadays, most democracies in the world are representative democracies were citizens whose representatives through suffrage, in opposition to direct democracies.