Because Social Darwinism is a mash between "Survival of the Fittest" and socialogy, races and political groups/parties fought to be at the top. It's natural for large groups in population to think they are better than the rest and given the example of Hitler, Benito Mussolini, etc., it's not hard to see who Europeans think they are. The first option is most likely correct.
Answer:
C. Most Americans blamed Hoover for their continued poverty, crisis, and distress.
Explanation:
Americans were going through rough times, they believed Hoover's view of rugged individualism was the reason they were failing. The fact he didn't wan't recognize that the depression was literally starving people do death caused peoples opinions to sway out of his favor.
Id have say D. san padres island
Imperial rivalry over Afghanistan and central Asia catapulted by the quick rise of Russian interests in the region.
The British empire was quickly being threatened by the growing influence of Russia, in the 1830's in central Asia, for they felt this threatened their imperial interests in India. The Russian empire too was wary of British influence in the region, and specifically Afghanistan and other middle Asia countries. It was simply a diplomatic and political confrontation over the two powers imperial interests in the region.