USA HISTORY

Which of the following groups would be considered to be on the CENTRAL POWERS team?

(A) United States, Great Britain, France

(B) Ottoman Empire, Italy, Austria-Hungary

(C) Germany, Austria-Hungary, France

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

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: -The Central Powers included Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.

Concept note-3: -By 1910 most of the major states of Europe belonged to one or the other of these great opposing alliances: the Central Powers, whose principal members were Germany and Austria-Hungary, and the Allies, composed of France, Russia, and Great Britain.

Concept note-4: -The three emperors: Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mehmed V, Franz Joseph. A postcard depicting the leaders of the Central Powers.