Louis XIV ruled his country as an absolute monarch for 72 years. This meant that no one could challenge him and his word was law.
Under his rule, the king’s command was law. Critics who challenged the king were punished. To control the nobles, Louis built a large palace at Versailles. Leading nobles were expected to spend most of the year at the royal court, under the watchful eye of the king.
Louis also interfered in the economic and religious lives of his subjects. He demanded that Protestants convert to Catholicism or leave France. Finally, Louis involved his subjects in a series of wars to expand France’s frontiers and bring glory to his rule.
Hobbes believed that kings were justified in assuming absolute power because only they could maintain order in a society.
Hobbes concludes by saying that peace is preferable to war under the Commonwealth of the Absolute Monarch. However, Hobbes contends that since men are inherently violent, this must also be true of the monarch as it is of every other individual human being. If so, the monarch and his subjects would be at war.
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The transfer of power from the central government to state or local government is called "devolution," since this would be the opposite of a smaller power "evolving" into a larger one.
World War I (1914–18): Causes Although the United States<span> did not enter World War I until 1917, the outbreak of that war in 1914, and its underlying causes and consequences, deeply and immediately affected America's position both at home and abroad. In the debate on </span>neutrality<span> and later on peace aims, much was made of European secret diplomacy, which was rejected on the U.S. side of the Atlantic, of militarism and the escalating arms race before 1914, and of the impact of colonialism. Undoubtedly, all these factors contributed to the origins of the European catastrophe, but they do not explain why the war broke out when it did. This question can only be answered more precisely by looking at the political and military decision‐making processes in the last months, weeks, and days of peace in 1914.</span>
The US and USSR engaged in nuclear arms race because each country was afraid of the other gaining nuclear supremacy.
