All of the following are major causes for World War One EXCEPT
a. Russian humiliation during the Bosnian Crisis and Balkan War
b. Austria's need for a strong military alliance to deal with the Southern Slavs.
c. A bored population who saw war as glorious and exciting.
d. The aggressive actions of Otto von Bismarck.
e. Military alliances.
d
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How did the French government react to the writings of Enlightenment philosophes?
A) It launched reforms outlined in the writings. B) It stripped local clergy of their customary powers. C) It censored unauthorized critiques of its institutions. D) It authorized their publication in the Encyclopédie.
What was a fundamental component of the first two stages of European empire-building?
A. slavery B. industrialization C. religious conflict D. trade unionism
The new Italian kingdom established in 1861
A. was created as a result of the Italo-Prussian Treaty of Halberstam in 1853. B. was, to a significant degree, the result of the diplomatic and political work of Cavour and the military actions of Garibaldi. C. was created as a result of the mass uprising of 1860 and 1861, when Russian and French troops were driven out. D. seized Greece as soon as the Ottoman Empire withdrew from it. E. owed its final success to the diplomatic and military success of Alexander II.
Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,
A. promoted the virtues of economic competition. B. imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust. C. depicted a world presided over by an industrialist-king modeled on J. P. Morgan. D. accepted the necessity of class divisions in a capitalist economy. E. described an America engaged in a second civil war due to concentrated wealth.