Praxis II Citizenship

Answer: C - Italy was not an empire in the early 20^th century, and it actually fared quite well in the immediate aftermath of World War I. It was one of the four permanent founding countries in the League of Nations, the international organization that was created during the Paris Peace Conference at the end of the war. Russia experienced the October Revolution in the middle of the war, which proved costly to the Russian Empire. It lost Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Austria-Hungary was carved up into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. Germany-the Weimar Republic, which was also known as the Second Reich-undoubtedly received the most devastating punishment. They lost their colonial possessions and were forced to pay substantial reparations, for which they had to borrow money from the United States. The Treaty of Versailles also forced Germany to accept blame for the war.