Because it was harder to travel over moountains.
Answer:
The Allies saw the German military strength as powerful, but not innovative, thinking they would mirror the war of 1914.
Explanation:
During the first phase of the war, the French High Command pivoted the war strategy, but they were hindered in their fear of repeating the trench war of 1914. Thus their strategy was entirely defensive, hoping that the German military (no matter its power) would crash against the Allied superior numbers and its defenses (in short the Maginot Line).
They were sure that technology was not adavanced enough to overcome certain natural spaces, and though short of the German innovativenes, that was the cause of the attack through the Ardennes, and then the pincer movement that would lead to Dunkirk and the French defeat and surrender in 1940.
The third one on the right
Answer:
The Missouri Compromise was struck down as unconstitutional, and slavery and anti-slavery proponents rushed into the territory to vote in favor or against the practice. The rush, effectively led to massacre known as Bleeding Kansas and propelled itself into the very real beginnings of the American Civil War