The history of Europe covers the peoples inhabiting Europe from prehistory to the present. The period known as classical antiquity began with the emergence of the city-states of ancient Greece. Later, the Roman Empire came to dominate the entire Mediterranean basin. The fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476 traditionally marks the start of the Middle Ages.
Answer: C. creating a buffer against Western influence.
The main purpose of the Japanese imperial expansion was the desire to create a buffer against Western influence. Japan felt that the West and their imperialist plans were likely to continue to spread. Instead of waiting for these countries to overtake them, Japan wanted to develop its capabilities and engage in imperialism themselves. In order to fulfill this goal, they greatly developed their military. They also engaged in intense modernization and industrialization.
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The effects that WWI had on Germany was that they lost allies and suffered huge territorial losses giving away its land and population to Poland, Russia, France, Belgium, and Denmark, and ultimately had to sign the Treaty of Versailles. After the U.S involvement in the first World War it lead directly to the Great Depression and WWII, The Treaty of Versailles led to a system where the U.S was cashing in its wartime loans to the U.K which in turn was using the wartime reparations it received from Germany to pay off the U.S.
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