Why did Thomas Paine publish Common Sense? to convince Britain it could not govern the colonies well
to let foreign countries know the colonies were ready to fight Britain
to convince colonists that the colonies should become independent
to force Southern colonies to support Northern ones in the coming war

The main reason Thomas Paine published Common Sense was to convince colonists that the colonies should become independent from Britain. Common Sense was a pamphlet that Thomas Paine in wrote in 1775–76 wanting to promote independence from Great Britain to the people in America in the Thirteen Colonies.

alliances in ww1 were different from ww2 because the entente in ww1 made up of serbia,russia,france,britan,japan and italy later america  and all allied in a sort of balance of power and too keep germany,austria-hungary,and the ottomans down. russia allied the serbians in order to exert its influence in the balkans while france allied the russians because france was still in dismay and insulted after the defeat to the germans during the unification of germany and britian allied the belgians after the germans invasion of belgium.in ww2 the alliances were in a preemptive attempt to deter any further wars into happening while germany and italy allied since they were insulted and humiliated after the previous war while also sharing a similar ideology of facsim along with japan which all 3 had a want for world domination and agreed to assist one another in the endevours 

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