The answer is most likely A.
The "New Imperialism [Era]" refers towards European, American, and Japanese (for the most part) overseas territorial expansion. This includes the American pacific islands such as American Samoa, the Japanese puppet states and islands in the Pacific, and the Scramble For Africa by Europe.
The local elites controlled the areas through their vast wealth that was accumulated through trading and exploiting the colonies. The governments relied on them because they were useful and would not bother the government as long as they were free to do their business. The government would let them build wealth and trade with the origin country, while the elites would just earn even more and sometimes even get royalty titles.
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higher wages and better conditions of work, and a repeal of the obnoxious Poor Law Act.
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<em><u>1. International: struggle for hegemony and Empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state
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<em><u>2. Political conflict: conflict between the Monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.
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<em><u>3. The Enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in Montequieu’s Spirit of the Laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in Rousseau’s Social Contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the Literary Underground of “Grub Street;” the broadening influence of public opinion.</u></em>
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It allowed Hitler to invade Poland without Soviet interference.
The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, signed in August, 1939, was a promise by both countries that they would take no military action against one another for the next 10 years. For Stalin and the USSR, that would give them time to build up the Soviet military without the threat of a war with Germany. For Hitler and Germany, it allowed the takeover of Poland without fearing a Soviet response from the East.
Later on, as we know, Hitler violated the pact, in 1941, when he began Operation Barbarossa, a massive incursion of German troops into Soviet territory.
