History & Civics
Cite any one instance to suggest how the race for armaments contributed to the beginning of World War I.
Answer
Britain and France were concerned about Germany's growing military strength. There was an arms race and the peculiar feature of such a race is that if one country increases its armaments, other countries are compelled to do the same. For every battleship built by Germany, two such ships were built by England. Such a race for armaments could end only in a war.
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