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The League of Nations came into existence in 1919 in order to prevent any future occurrences of war like the World War 1. But, the Second World War broke out and caused utmost misery and death in the human history. It also changed the social, political and economic changes in the world. Thus, in the place of League of Nations, United Nations Organization came into existence.

The First World War was fought between the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan between 1914 and 1918.  It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers.

The First World War was fought from 1914-1918 between Allied and Central powers. The major allied powers in WWI were Great Britain, France and The Russian empire. America entered the war in 1917. Germany, Austria- Hungary, Turkey formed Central Powers during the First World War.

• When Germany was created in 1870, there were two visions for the country, Kleindeutschland and Grossdeutschland.
• Kleindeutschland would be made up of German states whereas Grossdeutschland would include all areas in which German was spoken including Austria and Alsace.

The above statement is false because, Germany fought against The Triple Entente, which consisted of British , France and Russia and Germany fought alongside Austria-Hungary(Hapsburg Empire), Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire(Now Turkey) which were known as Central Powers.

The immediate cause for the First World War was the assassination of the crown prince of Austria i.e. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on 28 June 1914. The ww1 began a month later i.e on 28th July 1914. Austria attacked Serbia starting the First World War.

Woodrow Wilson was the President of USA during World War 1. During World War, he decided to keep USA neutral by not supporting either of the two fronts. However later on in 1917 when Germany sank their ships, he called on Congress and declared war against Germany. Later he came up with a proposal of League of Nations during peace treaty. 

Indian Muslims turned against the British post The Great War (aka The First World War), because British waged a war against Central Powers and Ottoman Empire (Now Turkey) wasn't active initially and South Asian Muslims have already started fighting the war for Great Britain, and later Ottoman Empire entered the war alongside the Central Powers, and the Indian Muslims, were fighting against their brothers, and moreover they were afraid as to what would happen to Islamic Centres, around the world if the Caliphate (Islamic state under leadership of Caliph) falls and eventually Ottoman Empire was dissolved and hence, Indian Muslims turned against British post World War 1..

The above statement is false because, Germany fought against The Triple Entente, which consisted of British , France and Russia and Germany fought alongside Austria-Hungary(Hapsburg Empire), Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire(Now Turkey) which were known as Central Powers