The correct answer is: The samurai and daimyo restored the emperor to power and worked to reform Japan.
Indeed, Japan had remained fiercely isolated from the rest of the world for centuries. Japan especially mistrusted Western powers sine they had better technology and were extremely aggressive and powerful. In 1853, American Commodore Matthew C. Perry, arrived with four US military, steam-powered ships which were equipped with very modern and destructive guns. The Japanese had no means to oppose him in any manner and yielded to his demands, that Japan sign an official treaty if trade and commerce with the United States. This treaty, the Convention of Kanagawa angered many of the highest-ranking samurais for whom it was seen as a capitulation. They decided that Japan was way behind Western powers and that unless they imposed radical societal, economic reforms, they would be dominated by the West. They managed to remove Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last Shogun of Japan and restored the Emperor.
Traditionalist samurais were incensed by this action and a civil war ensued, which reformist samurais were able to win with the help of Western technology and military advisors. Most power was transferred to the Emperor and Japan started massively importing technology and methods of social organization from many different countries in the west.
The correct answer is A) the Allied powers encouraged the formation of the State of Israel.
What resulted from the Allied powers' discovery of the atrocities committed against the Jewish population during the Holocaust was that the Allied powers encouraged the formation of the State of Israel.
When the Allied forces discovered the existence of the Nazi concentration camps during World War II, the troops were in shock to witness those atrocities. The Allied Forces immediately decided to free the Jewish people that were found in the camps. They started in Majdanek, in July 1944. The Soviets troops were the first to found the camp.
That is why at the end of the war, Great Britain with the support of the United States decided to grant the Jewish that was the state of Israel in the Palestine territories of the Middle East.
The cartoon you are referring to shows three business men in front of the U.S. Founding Fathers. One of them, acting as a spokesperson, interpellates the writers of the Constitution by asking them to scratch the first words of the Constitution ("We, the people..") and replace them with the statement "We, the anonymous corporate donors, untraceable foreign contributors and assorted billionaires.." So, if the U.S. Constitution began as suggested by the cartoon, the Supreme Court would make decisions that favored corporations ("we, the anonymous corporate donors") over individuals ("we, the people"). Fortunately this is not the case, but, throughout its history, and depending upon the Chief Justice who has led it, the Supreme Court has sometimes been especially friendly to business.
The correct answer would be alternative A) "most of those increases in agriculture are cash crops reserved for export."
The increase of production of crops doesn't benefit the hungry, as the crops are not meant for them. They're destined to exportation. For this reason, the hungry don't get anything from the increase in production.
One of the ways to prevent hunger in developing countries would be to have this crops used for social programs, and distribute food to the hungry. However, that's not the way it's done.
