Five Motives for Imperialism. Various motives prompt empires to seek to expand their rule over other countries or territories. These include economic, exploratory, ethnocentric, political, and religious motives. ... Imperial powers often competed with each over for the best potential resources, markets, and trade.
No. This was called World War 2 because it was the second war that was held on such a large scale that it encompassed all the great forces of the entire world, from Europe to America to Asia and Australia. Before it was World War 1, which wasn't numbered since nobody expected world war 2 to happen, so it was called the Great War.
The correct answer is - b. False.
In the late 1800's it was the period when the industrial revolution was at its peak and people were actually not moving towards the villages but towards the cities were the industrial facilities were developing, so the population of the cities was rapidly growing, and the populations in the countryside were quickly diminishing. There were also some interesting cases were some small towns of villages that had the resources needed for a certain type of industry, grew into very large cities in just few years, like the example with Birmingham in England that had a big amounts of coal nearby.
The correct answer is the "Red Scare"
During the Red Scare, which took place mostly during the 1950s, America freaked itself out with the though that communists were everywhere (they weren't) and that communists wanted to overthrow the US government and could do so (debatable).
