Why did the tensions among nations of the industrialized world rise in the years leading up to world war i? a. bolsheviks russia were making an attempt to spread communism. b. nations were competing to build strong economies and large empires. c. the united states was trying to spread democracy to monarchies in europe. d. nations were fighting over which religion would dominate europe.

The correct answer is B) nations were competing to build strong economies and large Empires.

The tensions among nations of the industrialized world raised in the years leading up to World War I in that nations were competing to build strong economies and large Empires.

In the years preceding World War I there was a series of international crises. The world was in turmoil in different parts before World War I. The spark that could have generated an international confrontation could have been anywhere due to imperialistic ideas and territorial dominance. Examples of this were the Moroccan Crisis of 1905. Or the Crisis in Bosnia in 1908. There was another period of crisis in Morocco in 1911. And what was definitively a most problematic issue was the war at the Balkans in 1912. World War I started on June 28, 1914, after the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, in Sarajevo.

was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all americans. the era has had a lasting impact on united states society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. in the south violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled southern white democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the south