In the speech excerpt that you heard in the introduction, French prime minister Jules Ferry made some specific arguments. His go
al was to convince the audience that France needed to continue colonial expansion. What fact-based and emotional arguments did he use? Describe these arguments in a paragraph of 50 to 75 words.
Jules Ferry made the logical argument that France should expand to maintain access to ports around the world. That way, its ships could get fuel and supplies. He also appealed to emotion when he said that the nation needed to be active around the world. He argued that doing so was necessary to maintain France’s greatness. Without expanding into Africa and Asia, he said, France would slide from first to third or fourth rank among nations.
The crisis that emerged in Yugoslavia was connected with the weakening of the Communist states in Eastern Europe towards the end of the Cold War, leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
