Why was Italy looked at as a "junior" partner in the Triple Alliance? What benefits did Italy supply to its partners?
What will be an ideal response?
Italy was a relatively late unified nation, as was Germany, but had significantly less industrialization and a less-developed economy than Germany, which benefitted from early industrialization and a wealth of mineral resources. Beginning under Bismarck, Germany had poured those resources into military development and technology. By contrast, Italy had not unified through military means, had less substantially developed military, and had a more difficult time with promoting a nationalist perspective in the widely varying regions of Italian states. Additionally, Italy had very little colonial success, having been defeated in its attempt to take Ethiopia as a colony in Africa. There were significant differences in the South, being poorer and more agrarian than in the North, which was more urban and industrial. However, Italy's geography and presence on the Mediterranean was a benefit to landlocked Austro-Hungary, and provided more direct African access (as well as to coastal France) for Germany. Thus, the Triple Alliance was created in 1882.
You might also like to view...
Folsom, New Mexico, is important because __________
A) it was the northern limit of Spanish exploration B) large numbers of dinosaur fossils have been found there C) evidence of human activity dating from the Ice Age was found there D) a major battle between Native Americans and Spanish conquistadors took place there
Pontiac’s Uprising threatened __________ outposts in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region
A) Dutch B) French C) British D) Spanish
The idea of women as naturally lusty dominated the colonial period
A) and peaked in the late 1800s. B) and was borne out by an increase in the 1800s of premarital pregnancies. C) but gave way to images of women as asexual. D) but was replaced in the 1800s by ideas of innocence and chastity.
While the United States fought a colonial war in the Philippines, Great Britain fought a colonial war in southern Africa
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.