Answers b), c), and d) (three options). After WW2 and the Korean War, divided East and West Germany with Russian assistance strongly favored the new democracy of a “free” Allied Germany. In a government coup by Adolf Hitler in 1945, many East German high ranking officials were either executed, persecuted, or at minimum, out of favor with German nationalism. East and West remained divided, even though economic disparity only worsened, until President Ronald Reagan eventually reunified one Germany in the famous address, “Tear down that (Berlin) Wall!”. Leadership was overburdened and corrupt in East Germany at all levels of oversight. Long before President Reagan in the 1980’s (and unlike North Korea), E. Germans fled to the West by the thousands.
The Pahlavi and the Ayatollah Khomeini regimes were diametrically opposed. The Pahlavi dynasty ruled Iran from 1925 to 1979. The Pahlavi's were closely associated with the West and ruled in an autocratic matter. This was especially true during the Cold War. Thoroughly western in orientation, women enjoyed significant freedoms in terms of their mobility in public life. The Shah's repression of dissidents led to dissatisfaction among students and the religious right. The last Shah of Iran was forced to resign and leave the country. The Khomeni government represented the ascendancy of the religious rights. Iran became a theocracy and women were increasingly relegated to the margins. They were forced to adhere to religious doctrine, and wear the hijab (Islamic head covering)
The action during the 1930s heightened the tensions between Japan and the United states is the Japan invaded Chinese Territory.
Between 1937 and 1941,escalating conflict between China and Japan influenced U.S relations with both nations, and ultimately contributed to pushing the United states toward Full-scale war with Japan and Germany.
The current constitution of South Africa has been created in 1996 and took effect in 1997. But the way to a democracy in RSA has been paved after the fall of Apartheid in 1994.
