An arms race occurs when two countries are competing in order to have more armed power than the other one. In this table, we can see that Britain and Germany were competing on the construction of dreadnoughts, or armed battleships. We know this because before 1910, both countries were at the same level, and in the following years, they both increased their production substantially.
The reason was because the north believed that the blacks should be free while the south thought the blacks should be slaves because they don't like what they don't understand
