Economic reasons. It was an economic venture by the Virginia company. Hope this helps!
They wanted religious freedom and also to escape the jurisdiction of the Church of England, which they found evil.
By signing the SALT Agreement, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to "<span>limit production of ICBMs" since this was done in the face of weapons build-up. </span>
Hitler in his writings, "Mein Kampf" explains his ambitions for Germany. He would create Germany into a ethno-empire. He would conquer Eastern Europe to create, "lebensraum" (Living Space) for the Aryan Race. The Aryan Race is a ancient civilization that Hitler believes are the ancestors of Germans. He explains the Aryan Race is superior to all others, culturally, technologically, physically, mentally, etc. He also shows his deep hatred for the slavic peoples and Jewish population. Anti-Semitism was common at the time and he used the Jews as a scape goat to rally Germany during the Great Depression.
I don't know what the choices are since your didn't put them in the question, but what did happen is that Portugal continued to go eastward and develop their new trading empire...
