RUSSIA and FRANCE

a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war. (Pg.360)

Examples of Militarism in Russia and France include:

· The idea of having a prepared army made people of countries feel patriotic.

· Russia and France along with many other European countries were spreading the ideas of militarism to show the rest of the world that they had strength. Militarism led the formation of many alliances between European and Russian powers.

· Russia's leaders, Lenin and Stalin both wanted to show the world that Russia was prepared for business and created large armies to defend their land and ideology which they had worked hard to express to the Russian people.

· France after finally coming out of the plummeting downward spin of the French revolution and the hardships they had to face was now becoming a power hungry...