<span>D. All electors voted for both Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.</span>
One reason could be that since England has colonized most of the countries in the past, the English language has been spread around. Another reason would be since English speaking countries like the US and Britain are powerful economically, knowing English is very important when making trades and business deals.
It was principally the fact that the British Navy was carrying off American sailors and making them work for on the ship of British vessels during the Napoleonic Wars that caused the United States to carry out economic sanctions (commercial and financial penalties applied by one or more countries contrary to a directed country, group, or individual) against them.
While the threat of mutually assured destruction seemed to fade with the end of the Cold War, the threat of "<span>B. the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction"</span> still exists