When napoleon seized the spanish throne and replaced it with a french king, criollos in latin a. believed napoleon would make things better. b. believed the people should take control. c. supported the new french king. d. supported reinstating the spanish king.

The correct answer is B) believed the people should take control.

When Napoleon seized the Spanish throne and replaced it with a French king, criollos in Latin America believed that the people should take control.

Criollo people were Spanish descendants born in the Americas. They were a very important part of independence ideas in Latin American countries. Criollos realized that when Napoleon seized the Spanish throne and replaced it with a French king, the opportunity to claim independence from Spain was at hand. One example of criollos doing that was the Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who started the Independence movement in Mexico.

on this day in 1939, in response to hitler’s invasion of poland, britain and france, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on germany.

the first casualty of that declaration was not german—but the british ocean liner athenia, which was sunk by a german u-30 submarine that had assumed the liner was armed and belligerent. there were more than 1,100 passengers on board, 112 of whom lost their lives. of those, 28 were americans, but president roosevelt was unfazed by the tragedy, declaring that no one was to “thoughtlessly or falsely talk of america sending its armies to european fields.” the united states would remain neutral.

as for britain’s response, it was initially no more than the dropping of anti-nazi propaganda leaflets—13 tons of them—over germany. they would begin bombing german ships on september 4, suffering significant losses. they were also working under orders not to harm german civilians. the german military, of course, had no such restrictions. france would begin an offensive against germany’s western border two weeks later. their effort was weakened by a narrow 90-mile window leading to the german front, enclosed by the borders of luxembourg and belgium—both neutral countries. the germans mined the passage, stalling the french offensive.

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