Between 1945 and 1960, three dozen new states in Asia and Africa achieved autonomy or outright independence from their European colonial rulers. There was no one process of decolonization. In some areas, it was peaceful and orderly. In many others, independence was achieved only after a protracted revolution.
Answer:
1. (A) arguing to expand the role of the United States in the world
2. (D) overcome opposition to participation in the impending Second World War
Explanation:
When Franklin D. Roosevelt took over as President of the U.S., the prevailing American policy was to avoid entanglement in the world especially in Europe. This speech by Roosevelt was arguing to increase U.S. participation in world affairs because Roosevelt felt that the U.S. play a more active role in the world.
President Roosevelt in this excerpt was warning against the kind of country that Germany was becoming because they had been violating treaties. In doing so he was trying to overcome the voices of those who did not want the U.S. to participate in the affairs of Europe which eventually boiled down to the Second World war.
D, a constitutional democracy. Since it was the first governing document to be signed in the American colonies.
Answer: Congress ratified preliminary articles of peace ending the Revolutionary War with Great Britain on April 15, 1783. On September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, bringing the Revolutionary War to its final conclusion.
The English colonists in America brought with them three main concepts: The need for an ordered social system, or government. The idea of limited government, that is, that government should not be all-powerful.