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Which most likely was Persia’s most valuable asset?

The Triple Alliance (1882) was the first alliance in Europe in the years leading to World War I. Which nations were members of that alliance? Choose three answers.

Something China and Japan have in common is

Read the excerpt from an informational document. [I]f we could but induce our retired merchants, engineers, doctors, solicitors, barristers, judges, and civilians to make India permanently their home, what an amount of talent and ability, political experience and ripe judgement, we should retain in India for the benefit of us all! All these great questions in regard to the financial drain on India, and those questions arising from jealousy of races and the rivalry for public employment, would at once disappear. And when we speak of the poverty of India, because of the draining away of vast sums of money from India to England, it has always seemed to me strange that so little thought should be bestowed upon the question of the poverty of our resources caused by the drain of so many men of public, political, and intellectual eminence from our shores every year.—Badruddin Tyabji, 1887

Read an excerpt from President Wilson’s speech asking Congress to declare war on Germany.It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for things which we have always carried nearest to our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

After its U-boats sank the Lusitania in 1915, what did Germany promise to do?

What is the most likely reason Persia gave economic control to Russia and Britain?

When World War I began in August 1914, many people anticipated that the war would end by Christmas of that year. Which event extended the war into 1915 and beyond?

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After the assassination of the Austrian archduke, which happened first?

Read the following passage from a book that David Livingstone wrote about his travels in central Africa.“The country is becoming very beautiful, and furrowed [lined] by deep valleys; the underlying rocks, being igneous, have yielded [given] fertile soil. There is great abundance of large game [animals to hunt]. . . . We crossed the Mbai [River] and found in its bed rocks of pink marble. Some little hills near it are capped by marble of beautiful whiteness.”

Which of these actions was a provision of the Treaty of Versailles?

How did women’s roles in the workforce change during World War I?

Which is not an abundant natural resource found in Africa?

How did advancements in medical technology influence imperialistic expansion?

Read an excerpt from an informational document.We hereby declare that Korea is an independent state, and that Koreans are self-governing people. We proclaim it to the nations of the world in affirmation of the principle of the equality of all the nations, and we proclaim it to our posterity, preserving in perpetuity the right of national survival. We make this declaration on the strength of five thousand years of history as an expression of the devotion and loyalty of twenty million people.

Which statement best describes the economy of India in the late 1700s?

Each country had its own goals in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles. What was the goal of the British prime minister, David Lloyd George?

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Look at the chart showing the size of European armed forces in 1914. Which of the following is the best conclusion that can be drawn from the chart?