23 Select the correct answer.
How were most of the political boundaries of Africa created?
A.
Africans went to the polls to democratically vote for their preferred boundaries.
B.
African leaders who seized power arbitrarily determined the boundaries.
C.
European colonial powers established boundaries before vacating the lands.
D.
The member nations of the United Nations voted collectively to determine the boundaries.

The answer is C, European colonial powers established boundaries before vacating the lands.

when world war i broke out across europe in 1914, president woodrow wilson proclaimed the united states would remain neutral, and many americans supported this policy of nonintervention. however, public opinion about neutrality started to change after the sinking of the british ocean liner lusitania by a german u-boat in 1915; almost 2,000 people perished, including 128 americans. along with news of the zimmerman telegram threatening an alliance between germany and mexico, wilson asked congress for a declaration of war against germany. the u.s. officially entered the conflict on april 6, 1917.