USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

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Which of the following countries was aligned with the Allies?

(A) Ottoman Empire

(B) ** Russia

(C) Germany

(D) Bulgaria

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Triple Entente was the name given to the alliance (partnership) between Russia, France, and Britain, during World War I. These countries were also known as the Allies, and were fighting against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Turkish Ottoman Empire.

Concept note-2: -The Allied Powers comprised of Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the USA.

Concept note-3: -World War II the chief Allied powers were Great Britain, France (except during the German occupation, 1940–44), the Soviet Union (after its entry in June 1941), the United States (after its entry on December 8, 1941), and China.

Concept note-4: -The Soviet Union, which initially had a nonaggression pact with Germany and participated in its invasion of Poland, joined the Allies in June 1941 after Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.