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Also Known As	Allies • Entente Powers
Related People	Ferdinand Foch • John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.

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Map of Europe during World War I highlighting the Central Powers-Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire-in orange. Surrounding countries are marked as Allies, neutrals, or neutral countries occupied by the Central Powers, with modern borders and major bodies of water labeled.

Arthur Zimmermann: Zimmermann Telegram

Delegates seated at a long table in an ornate room during the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty in 1919, with one man standing as others look on.

Large groups of Allied soldiers gather along the shore and hillsides at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli Peninsula, with boats and piers visible in the water during the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.

Examine how the Allied powers dismembered the Central Powers of World War I by a treaty that failed to prevent World War II

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Topics

North Atlantic Treaty Organization Axis powers Gulf Cooperation Council Central Powers Triple Entente League of Cambrai Holy Alliance Anglo-Japanese Alliance Dual Alliance Stresa Front

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