Solution:
The above statement is true.Nationalism, aligned with imperialism, led Europe to disaster in 1914. During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, nationalist factions became increasingly intolerant of one another and prepared to go to war. In turn, the major European powers manipulated the nationalist aspirations of Europe's subject peoples to further their own imperialist goals. This led Europe to disaster. European ideas of nationalism were nowhere to be replicated, as people worldwide developed their distinct brands of nationalism. However, the concept of societies being organised into "nation-states" came to be accepted as natural and universal.
