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

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Allied powers and Central Powers in World War I
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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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