C. Free Territories is correct. I took the quiz.
They claimed that their wars were defensive. Whenever they attacked they would claim that the Natives had committed a transgression or had attacked first or were a threat or anything similar. This enabled them to do terrible things and still look like heroes in the eyes of the public.
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Japan invaded China in the 1930s.
I would pick they <span>became even more important to the British.
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