The international situation in the mid-eighteenth century included
a. amicable cooperation between Austria and Prussia for control of central Europe.
b. a declining role for the aristocracy.
c. an intense rivalry between France and Britain in northern Europe and North America.
d. a prolonged period of peace on the continent.
e. a rejection of Prussian militarism by all of the philosophes.
c
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____ The only European nation to pay off its World War I debts to the United States, invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939-1940
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