USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

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Which countries made up the Central Powers during World War I?

(A) ** Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

(B) England, France, Russia, USA

(C) Germany, Italy, England, Ottoman Empire

(D) Poland, Czechoslovakia, USA, Germany

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Allies described the wartime military alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire as the ‘Central Powers’.

Concept note-2: -World War I was fought between the Central Powers comprising Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire; and the Allied Powers comprising Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and Romania.

Concept note-3: -Enver Pasha had succeeded in bringing the Ottoman Empire into the First World War on the side of the Central Powers, Germany and Austria-Hungary.