Innovations in technology radically change military budget allocation from focusing on soldiers development into budget plan that focus on development of weapons and war vehicles.
In the late nineteenth century, industrialized nations able to produce high quality weapons in large quantity due to the industrial revolution. Since those weapons able to eliminate enemies in larger numbers, all countries start to see that focusing their budget for those weapons were far more beneficial.
The purpose of a veil is to to hide something or to hinder that something can be clearly seen. And when people want to cover up their wrongdoings with an appearence of goodness, they are called hypocrites. By using the words '<em>a thin veil'</em>, the author's intention could be to show how people see clearly the hypocrisy of the slaveowners.
Answer C.
American nationalism is a form of nationalism found in the United States, which asserts that Americans are a nation and that promotes the cultural unity of Americans.[3]
American scholars such as Hans Kohn have claimed that the United States government institutionalized a civic nationalism based on legal and rational concepts of citizenship, and based on a common language and cultural traditions, rather than ethnic nationalism.[3] The founders of the United States founded the country upon classical liberal individualist principles rather than ethnic nationalist principles.[3] American nationalism sinceWorld War I and particularly since the 1960s has largely been based upon the civic nationalist culture of the country's founders.<span>[4]</span>
