The Meiji Restoration in Japan
A) successfully accomplished the expulsion of all foreigners from the country.
B) created a political system rigidly authoritarian in both form and practice.
C) concentrated on the reestablishment of feudal principles of decentralized government and native Japanese values.
D) sent many Japanese abroad to be educated in the ways of the west and adopted many western reforms in political and military organization.
E) forcefully rejected westernization and looked instead to China as its model.
D
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After WWII the United States was able to have both global military hegemony and domestic economic prosperity because other capitalist nations desperately needed American goods and because Cold War anti-communism pressured American taxpayers into accepting permanent war-time military expenditures.
a. true b. false