Answer:
(D) The desire to contain communism in developing parts of the world.
Explanation:
To start, you have to know a thing or two about wars with the US. JFK was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he attempted to repel communism and had mild success. Then after that came Lyndon B Johnson aka LBJ, he tried to repel communism in Vietnam, and had mild success as well. Then Nixon came after and ended the Vietnam war but the Cold War was still happening, which was against communism aka USSR. Then there's Gerald Ford, I have no idea what he did but he probably continued the trend of being against communism.
TLDR
It reflects the US against communism during the 20th century.
It's basically saying that the more you think of yourself, the higher quality you think you deserve, and if you are 'the smaller man', or the man who is humble, you know that comfort is more important than quality or price.
The explosion of the USS Maine and the practice of yellow journalism played a significant role in the 1. public's support for the Spanish-American War. The USS Maine was stationed outside of Havana, Cuba (then a colony of Spain). Its explosion was widely (and most likely incorrectly) attributed to Spanish tampering and thus was used as a reason to declare war. Yellow journalism spread these messages to the public who widely believed the insidious nature of the Spanish illustrated by this journalism.
Africans played a direct role in the slave trade, kidnapping adults and stealing children for the purpose of selling them, through intermediaries, to Europeans or their agents. Those sold into slavery were usually from a different ethnic group than those who captured them, whether enemies or just neighbors.