USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

[SOURCES]
Land was taken from Germany and Russia to create new nations

(A) False

(B) ** True

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Versailles Treaty forced Germany to give up territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland, return Alsace and Lorraine to France and cede all of its overseas colonies in China, Pacific and Africa to the Allied nations.

Concept note-2: -Russian land yielded the new nations of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Concept note-3: -In 1907 Russia went into a coalition with Britain and France, the Triple Entente. The ultimate result of this was that Russia and Germany became enemies in World War I.

Concept note-4: -The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that enabled those powers to partition Eastern Europe between them.