WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Allies won World War I after four years of combat and the deaths of some 8.5 million soldiers as a result of battle wounds or disease. Read more about the Treaty of Versailles.

Detailed explanation-2: -They fought in longer battles than the British, and, most importantly of all, when the war was finally won in 1918 the allied armies were under the authority of a single French commander Marshal Foch.

Detailed explanation-3: -On the basis of its tie with Britain, Japan participated in World War I on the side of the Allies. After the war the British no longer feared Russian encroachment in China and wished to maintain close ties with the United States, which tended to view Japan as its rival in the Pacific.

Detailed explanation-4: -Japan participated in World War I from 1914 to 1918 in an alliance with Entente Powers and played an important role in securing the sea lanes in the West Pacific and Indian Oceans against the Imperial German Navy as a member of the Allies.

Detailed explanation-5: -At the end of the war, Japan secured its position as a great power and retained its conquests of German territory in China and the Pacific Islands. Following negotiations with the other victors, the Treaty of Versailles legally transferred to Japan Germany’s rights and privileges to Shantung peninsula.