Question 35 1 pts
Giolitti's concerns in Source 2 about the potential consequences of conflict in the Balkans are most
directly explained by which of the following developments in Europe in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries?
Ethnic and religious diversity in European states ensured that ethnic tensions in one region would quickly
spread across Europe and spark civil wars.
O European states entered into military alliances with each other that forced them to come to their allies' aid in
the event of conflict with a nonallied state.
O Military experts feared that future wars between European states would likely be far deadlier than past wars.
because of the recent development of more advanced weapons.
o Conflict between European rivals had already led to the dissolution of imperial states such as the Habsburg
Austro-Hungarian Empire.