Answer:
The correct option is: "the Mexican-American War"
Explanation:
It was the the Mexican-American War that brought about the need or desire to begin an expansionist policy with regard to foreign affairs, since the end of this war ceded a lot of new territory that was used by settlers moving west.
Answer: The Cultural Revolution
(Full name was "<u>The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution</u>.")
<em>Explanation/details:</em>
The Cultural Revolution was launched response to other persons in leadership in China that Mao thought focused too much on technical expertise and not on ideological purity. They were not sufficiently communist, in Mao Zedong's view.
Mao began the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (its official name) in 1966. A big part of the program was the closing of China's schools, because Mao saw the majority of educators as bourgeois types who were failing to support the communist revolution. The Cultural Revolution was an insistence on loyalty to communist party ideology.
The Red Guard was formed, which was made up of high school and college students (no longer attending school, since schools were shut down). These radicalized students became militants for Mao over against those whom he considered not revolutionary enough. The Red Guard destroyed historical artifacts and writings of the of China's former culture. They also attacked persons who were seen to be resisting Chairman Mao's permanent revolution.
The red guards carried out the cultural revolution by persecuting intellectuals and government officials
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