For this assignment, select one of the following options. Option 1: Chronicle Adolf Hitler's rise from failed art student to political speaker to eventually gain control over Germany. Option 2: Describe Benito Mussolini's revival of European Imperialism in North Africa and how he came to be Adolf Hitler's ally. Option 3: Chronicle the rise of extreme militarism in Japan and how it led them to conquer huge chunks of land in Asia and so many islands in the western Pacific basin, and how this led to their conflict with Great Britain and the United States Option 4: Describe Joseph Stalin's rise to total power in the USSR and how his paranoia and desire for total control led to the terrible purges of the 1930s.

For most of the period from 1540 until 1820 Spain viewed Texas as a buffer zone for the far-more valuable province of Mexico.  None of the answers is correct.  a future base of operations for the invasion of Louisiana.  a vast source of mineral and agricultural wealth.