What did the blackshirts, schutzstaffel, and brownshirts have in common?

a. they were all involved in hitler's rise to power.
b. they were all involved in mussolini's rise to power.
c. they were all secret societies opposed to communism.
d. they were all police forces supportive of only one political group.

By the late 1930s, how were u. s. officials beginning to view japanese policies of expansion? a. they attempted to join forces with japan so as to increase u. s. territory. b. they warned them to stop expansionist actions or face potential u. s. intervention. c. they sent representatives to japan to work out territorial rights in a diplomatic fashion. d. they became fearful of their military power