Woodrow Wilson’s charge against the European balance of power system—that it resulted in countries being cut up like cheese—was true in some cases because __________
a. the balance of power system had caused instability in some regions, leading to sharp ethnic divisions in some regions over time
b. the aim of states in balancing power was to preserve their independence, but this was sometimes necessarily done at the expense of the independence of others
c. the geographically larger and more powerful nations had more power to balance than smaller ones
d. no international organization existed to fairly draw sovereign state boundary lines after major wars
Answer: B
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