WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR I

CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following countries is NOT part of the Central Powers?
A
Russia
B
Germany
C
Austria-Hungary
D
Ottoman Empire
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Central Powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey, while the Allies including France, Britain and its domain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and from 1917, the United States of America.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Allies described the wartime military alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire as the ‘Central Powers’.

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.

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