Answer:
Yes, they could have but it would have been very difficult.
Explanation:
The reason is that the attitudes of the leaders of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan (Hitler, and Hirohito, respectively) were very pro-war. Both leaders were pursuing an aggressive expansionary policy, whcih means that they wanted to conquer a lot of new land in order to be colonized by German or Japanese people respectively.
However, some of the policies of the British, French, and American government could have been different. For example, the could have been harder on Hitler at first, when he was pursuing the annexation of Austria, and Czechia.
Answer:
c) try to find new trade routes to Africa and Asia
Explanation:
Finding new trade routes to Africa and Asia is a good way to gain a competitive advantage over other European, rival states. This in fact what Portugal first, and later Spain, did during the later years of the 1400s.
The motivation was that the Ottoman Empire controlled the Eastern Mediterranean, and this prevented Western European nations from trading with East Asia and the Middle East with ease.
Portugal opted to look for new routes around Africa, and the Indian Ocean, while Spain decided to look for a new route throught the west, which led to the arrival of Columbus in the Americas in 1492.
