<span>Patronage an appointment to a political office usually as a reward for helping a candidate get elected.
Patronage
-Giving government jobs to people who had helped a candidate get elected.
-also known as the spoils system.
spoils system
Also known as patronage, which was the giving of government jobs to people who helped a candidate get elected. However this became a problem in the government because many people who were given these jobs weren't qualified for them, and sometimes used their job positions for their own personal gain. Seeing that this was becoming a major issue in the government reforms began to press for the elimination of patronage, and believed that jobs in civil service/ government administration should go to the most qualified people and not based off their political views or who they were recommended by</span>
Most european nations are part of the european union.
The European balance of power broke down was an effect following German unification is correct answer due to fact that Germany (except Austria) was united by militarist state of Prussia with powerful army which definitely change balance on the European scene especially that formal unification took place just after end of Franco-Prussian war which humiliated France.
Hitler did not know of the Pearl Harbor plan beforehand. When informed in his headquarters on the evening of Dec. 7 of the strike and the damage suffered by US forces, he was “delighted,” according to British historian Ian Kershaw.
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