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|Triple Entente

|Triple Entente

|Great Britain, Russia, France formed this alliance in 1907 to oppose the Triple Alliance; this later became the Allied Powers after Italy and Japan joined

|From the French for "good-will", Great Britain, Russia, France formed this alliance in 1907 to oppose the Triple Alliance; this later became the Allied Powers after Italy and Japan joined.  It was not as water-tight an alliance as the Triple Alliance, but it did have a provision that required mutual assistance in defensive wars between France and Russia.

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|Treaty of Versailles  

|Treaty of Versailles  

|1919: imposed limits on the size of the German army and its use of weapons and required Germany to pay reparations of $33 billion over a 30-year period; also took away some of its colonies and territories

|1919: imposed limits on the size of the German army and its use of weapons and required Germany to pay reparations of $33 billion over a 30-year period; also took away some of its colonies and territories.  Although criticised by the Germans for being overly harsh it was far more lenient than the treaty of Brest-Litovsk that they imposed on Russia in 1917. 

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|Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

|Vladimir Ilyich Lenin