The two countries that increased their military spending in the 1910-1914 was Russia and Germany.
The question is incomplete, here is the complete question:
Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.
WOMAN ONE
(a little reluctantly)
Well . . . sometimes I go to bed late at night. A couple of times . . . a couple of times I'd come out on the porch and I'd see Mr. Goodman here in the wee hours of the morning standing out in front of his house . . . looking up at the sky.
(she looks around the circle of faces.)
That's right looking up at the sky as if . . . as if he were waiting for something.
(a pause)
As if he were looking for something.
There's a murmur of reaction from the crowd again.
How does Woman One's claim about Les Goodman affect other elements in the story?
The neighbors become more sympathetic toward Les Goodman.
The neighbors become even more suspicious of Les Goodman.
The neighbors become less frightened of Les Goodman.
The neighbors become more protective of Les Goodman.
The correct answer is B. The neighbors become even more suspicious of Les Goodman.
Explanation
The fragment is a story about the perception of one of Mr. Les Goodman's neighbors. In this account he expresses that Mr. Les Goodman had a strange demeanor when he said that "I saw Mr. Goodman here in the early hours of the morning standing in front of his house ... looking up at the sky." According to this statement, it can be inferred that his neighbors are suspicious of this behavior by Mr. Les Goodman because it is not a common behavior. According to the above, the correct answer is B. The neighbors are even more suspicious of Les Goodman.
Answer: A Ireland
Explanation: Ireland experienced the great potato famine in the 1800's
Answer:
A. the rise of kingdoms because of the importance of controlling land and long-distance travel routes
Explanation:
The Vedic age was a period in which the kingdom economy was based on self independence or sufficiency. Everyone in the kingdom of the Vedic Aryans was supporting each other trade which limited the expansion of businesses.
However, as time goes by, the people get fed up with this system and were agitating for more economy growth. This resulted in the idea of changing goods with other locals which later increase production. This means of trade was known as Barter and due to transformation in the number of sales increase, there was a high demand in competition for land , water and other available resources.
Explanation:
Europe in the nineteenth century drew on immense new resources created by the Industrial Revolution to underpin its expansion.
• European states were more powerful in the nineteenth century and were able to field more military resources in their imperialist competition with each other.
• To a greater extent than before, in the nineteenth century Europe enmeshed other parts of the world in networks of trade, investment, and sometimes migration. This ultimately generated a new world economy.
• Unlike the early modern period, in the nineteenth century European expansion brought with it a new culture of modernity—its scientific rationalism and technological achievements, its belief in a better future, and its ideas of nationalism, socialism, feminism, and individualism
