Prussia’s defeat of Austria in the Seven Weeks’ War in 1866 had confirmed Prussian leadership of the German states and threatened France’s position as the dominant power in Europe. The immediate cause of the Franco-German War, however, was the candidacy of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (who was related to the Prussian royal house) for the Spanish throne, which had been left vacant when Queen Isabella II had been deposed in 1868. The Prussian chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, and Spain’s de facto leader, Juan Prim, persuaded the reluctant Leopold to accept the Spanish throne in June 1870.
Answer:
A. The Spanish Civil War diverted European powers’ attention from Hitler’s expansionist desires in Western Europe.
Explanation:
The Spanish Civil War or Spanish War, also called by the Spaniards as Civil War par excellence, was a warlike conflict -which would later also affect an economic crisis- that was unleashed in Spain after the partial failure of the coup d'état in Spain. July 17 and 18, 1936 carried out by a part of the Army against the Government of the Second Republic. After the blockade of the Strait and the subsequent airlift that thanks to the rapid collaboration of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, moved the rebel troops to mainland Spain in the last weeks of July, 8 9 began a civil war that would conclude on April 1, 1939 with the last part of war signed by Francisco Franco, declaring his victory and establishing a dictatorship that would last until his death on November 20, 1975. The war had many facets, as it included class struggle, war of religion, confrontation of opposing nationalisms, struggle between military dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, between fascism and communism.
The goal of the Bonus Army was to demand that the government paid them for their services during WW1
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Who were the Bonus Army.</h3>
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators Led by Walter W. Waters, comprising of about of 17,000 veterans of the United States in World War I and other affiliated groups who protested in the US capitol in 1932 to demand money redemption for their services during WW1.
The demonstrators were tagged the "Bonus Expeditionary Force" (B.E.F.), which throws more light to World War I's American Expeditionary Forces. However the media called them the Bonus Army or Bonus Marchers.
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