AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -There were two main power blocs in World War I: the Triple Entente of Britain, Russia, and France, as well as the Triple Alliance of Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany. Q: What country was the most powerful during World War I? Great Britain was the most powerful of all countries at the beginning of World War I.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the time World War I began, almost all of the African continent was under some form colonial rule by Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain or Portugal.
Detailed explanation-3: -Europe’s leaders were willing to go to war to defend or extend national interests and their choices were shaped by a combination of long and short-term foreign policy goals, political pressures at home, previous crises, and the system of opposing alliances that had developed over the previous 35 years.
Detailed explanation-4: -The major Allied powers in World War I were Great Britain (and the British Empire), France, and the Russian Empire, formally linked by the Treaty of London of September 5, 1914.