If you want to add a country, you could add, I suppose, add Italy since she was at least nominally aligned with the Central Powers in 1914, and only joined the Allies in 1915. Anyone who's collected foreign stamps (but even better, Wikipedia) could point you to the sparse but scattered German possessions, which also included part of Samoa, Tsingtao (which is why they brew such good beer) and Ruanda-Urundi, which together with Tanganyika (but not Zanzibar) formed German East Africa. Togo or Togoland was Germany's possession in West Africa, not Dahomey (now Benin). German Southwest Africa included the Namib Desert but was never called Namibia. ΒΆ If you are following the practice of some other quizzes and using the Sporcle names of current nations that occupy territory that was once German, Turkish or Austro-Hungarian, not only should you say so, but you'd have to add (among others) Rwanda, Burundi, Samoa (that's the independent former Western Samoa, not American Samoa), China (Tsingtao or Kiaochow), Greece (Thrace, etc.) Ghana (part of Togoland), Nigeria (part of Kamerun), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Iraq (then Mesopotamia), Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
Some anti-Russian forces in Finland, the Ukraine, and even Poland (e.g. Gen. Pilsudski) aligned with the Central Powers. Though small and of course unofficial, their military contribution against the Allies was tangible, so in one view, they could make a better claim to inclusion than, say, Italy.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_German_colonies
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_the_Ottoman_Empire#History_of_Ottoman-ruled_countries.
Wikipedia's article on the Austro-Hungarian Empire says, "The realm comprised modern-day Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, large parts of Serbia and Romania and smaller parts of Italy, Montenegro, Poland and Ukraine."
For the Finnish, Polish, Ukrainian and Lithuanian movements allied militarily w |
The USA Declares War!
Original 13 Colonies
20th Century by Image
