A common factor that triggered the hot wars in Asia was based on communism. The United States wanted to halt the spread of communism while the Soviet Union wanted to influence every region and make them communists.
The correct answer is D) Most of the rural areas of the southeast received electricity.
Signed by President Roosevelt on May 20, 1936, the Rural Electrification Act enabled the federal government to “make loans…for rural electrification and the furnishing of electric energy to persons in rural areas who are not receiving central station service.”
The First World War destroyed empires, created numerous new nation-states, encouraged independence movements in Europe’s colonies, forced the United States to become a world power and led directly to Soviet communism and the rise of Hitler. Diplomatic alliances and promises made during the First World War, especially in the Middle East, also came back to haunt Europeans a century later. The balance of power approach to international relations was broken but not shattered. It took the Second World War to bring about sufficient political forces to embark on a revolutionary new approach to inter-state relations.
