Americans instituted an Open Door Policy both in China and Japan while Europeans insisted themselves by bringing addiction to the Chinese in the form of opium. Americans wanted to expand their trade and economy by creating the Open Door Policy for China to open their doors to the Americans. British people did not do this, they forced themselves into China which eventually led to their demise---the Opium Wars.
The confederate states didn't want to be apart of the union. They thought that if they were apart of the union a lot of there rights "like slavery" would be taken away. They wanted to defeat the union so this is why they formed the confederacy in the first place.
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles<span> could be seen as undermining the </span>Weimar Republic<span>. There were claims that the troops had been 'stabbed in the back' by the government, however the right wing elite, which had governed Germany through the war, denied this.</span>
It was a respectful petition to King George III was to declare their right to approve laws passed by the parliament.