USA HISTORY

The nation that emerged as the overriding economic world power at the end of WWI was

(A) France

(B) Great Britain

(C) ** United States

(D) Germany

Concept note-1: -America emerged as the world’s leading economic power.

Concept note-2: -The period after the war saw the beginning of the end of the European supremacy in the world. Economically and militarily, the United States surpassed Europe to emerge as a superpower.

Concept note-3: -Russian land yielded the new nations of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Russia and Austria-Hungary gave up additional territory to Poland and Romania.

Concept note-4: -3. Independent republics were formed in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, and Turkey.