USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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The last emperor of Germany and following the war he was exiled.

(A) Czar Nicholas II

(B) ** Kaiser Wilhelm II

(C) Archduke Franz Ferdinand

(D) None of the options are correct

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Wilhelm II or William II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern who reigned as the last German Emperor (German: Kaiser) and King of Prussia from 15 June 1888 until his abdication on 9 November 1918.

Concept note-2: -In late 1918, he was forced to abdicate. He spent the rest of his life in exile in the Netherlands, where he died at age 82.

Concept note-3: -Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated as German Emperor and King of Prussia in November 1918. The abdication was announced on 9 November by Prince Maximilian of Baden and was formally enacted by Wilhelm’s written statement on 28 November, made while in exile in Amerongen, the Netherlands.

Concept note-4: -William II, king of Prussia and last German emperor-he ruled the German Empire for 30 years before being toppled from the throne.

Concept note-5: -After the German defeat in World War I, Emperor Wilhelm II sought and got asylum in the neutral Netherlands. On 15 May 1920, he settled in Huis Doorn (House Doorn) near Utrecht, an estate with a lavishly furnished country house, where he would live with his family until his death in 1941.