Why did the meji reformers want to modernize japan?
a) to colonize weaker nations in s. e asia
b) to allow western nations to protect them in trade negotiations
c) to compete with the economies and military of western nations
d) to replace traditional practices with western culture

the answer is C you're welcome

the pogroms became known as kristallnacht, the "night of shattered glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets. the morning after the pogroms 30,000 german jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being jewish and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds of them perished.