The correct answers here are the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Both of these empires were on the losing side of the World War One as Austria-Hungary started the World War I and the Ottoman Empire was theirs and Germany's ally. The Ottoman Empire was partitioned after the world by the world powers Russia, France and Great Britain and the Austria-Hungary was dissolved into the Kingdom of Hungary and the First Austrian Republic.
The French and Indians were not exactly the closest allies to the colonists, yet they joined eachother as allies in a battle against the Monarchy and loyalists.
Serving an expanded citizenry, Reconstruction governments established the South’s first state-funded public school systems, sought to strengthen the bargaining power of plantation labourers, made taxation more equitable, and outlawed racial discrimination in public transportation and accommodations. They also offered lavish aid to railroads and other enterprises in the hope of creating a “New South” whose economic expansion would benefit Blacks and whites alike.
The answer is A - underlying meaning.