Brinkmanship is suggesting war or allowing a situation to dangerously out of control in order to get your opponent to back down.
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<span>B.taking a dispute to the edge of conflict to force an enemy to back down.</span>
The Muslim community spread through the Middle East through conquest, and the resulting growth of the Muslim state provided the ground in which the recently revealed faith could take root and flourish. The military conquest was inspired by religion, but it was also motivated by greed and politics
The Monroe Doctrine was intended to prevent European expansion in <u>South</u> <u>Africa</u> after the independence movements in the nineteenth century
I believe that it would be the second option.
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I feel emancipation proclamation was probably one of the bigger turning point but what came after C which was WWII was also quite significant.