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 main problem of the Articles of Confederation was that they did not give the federal government the power to tax. Keep in mind that the American Revolution was fought against a central authority who taxed the Americans without their consent--the Americans were loath to create the same thing for themselves.
