Question 9 of 20 Why did the 1919 Treaty of Versailles dismantle the German and Austro-
Hungarian empires but not other empires?
A. The Russian Empire was too far east for the treaty to affect it.
B. New nation-states in Asia and Africa were not ready for
democratic governance.
C. Imperial domains that existed prior to 1900 were grandfathered in
at the conference.
D. The British and the French kept their empires intact because they
controlled the treaty
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