Answer:
Five Motives for Imperialism.
Explanation:
Various motives prompt empires to seek to expand their rule over other countries or territories. These include economic, exploratory, ethnocentric, political, and religious motives.
The statements referred by the question are:
a) It convinced the United States to dismantle its nuclear weapons.
b) It proved that a naval blockade was not an act of war.
c) It showed Cuba that communism should be stopped.
d) It brought the world dangerously close to nuclear war.
The correct statement is D. Historians agree the Missile Crisis was the closest the world got to have a nuclear war between the U.S. and USSR. Nothing before or after this came as close to be direct aggression from one of these countries against the other.
Statements A and C never happened: the U.S. has nuclear weapons until today, and Cuba didn't give up on communism.
Statement B doesn't fit the facts around the Missile Crisis. The naval blockade didn't lead to war only because the U.S. was defensive.
Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New Mexico. This was known as the Mexican Cession and included present-day Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado.
a. Poor transportation networks left troops ill-equipped on the front lines
Russia had more soldiers than any other country but their infrastructure was not well built leaving the front line with few resources. Troops were often left without food, clothing, and weapons. Russia was behind in industrialization and the railroads were not well developed. It left soldiers stranded on the front lines.
In addition, the leadership of Russia was weak and unable to understand the devastation of the war. The lack of preparation and high level of death would turn into a revolution causing Russia to leave World War I sooner than the remaining Allies.
Answer:
Russia mobilizes its forces on Germany's eastern borders.
Explanation:
