best defined as a political party is an organized group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government
Answer Defeat in the Crimean War exposed Russia's lack of development in relation to its European neighbors.
Interesting document.
It was issued by the German Foreign office (January 1917) proposing that Mexico should align itself with Germany in the even America enter the war. Germany was pleading for an alliance that would keep America busy dealing with an attack from the south. Fortunately it didn't work.