Causes Of The Great War

Question 1

Who was in the triple alliance

Answer 1

Germany
Italy
Austria/hungary

Question 2

Who was in the triple entente

Answer 2

France
Russia
Uk

Question 3

Tell me 2 other alliances that aren’t triple alliance or entente

Answer 3

Uk and Belgium.
Russia and Serbia

Question 4

Who was kaiser Wilhelm 2

Answer 4

German leader/ kaiser in 1914

Question 5

What does mains stand for

Answer 5

These are the reasons for the Great War.
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Significant someone

Question 6

Militarism

Answer 6

Army/navy (Germany was building up its navy and army and was jealous of uk)

Question 7

Franz Joseph

Answer 7

Austria/ Hungary leader/emperor in 1914

Question 8

Nationalism

Answer 8

Wanting to divide people into nations . (It caused problems for Austria/hungary)

Question 9

Franz Ferdinand

Answer 9

Heir to Franz Joseph

Question 10

Significant someone

Answer 10

Franz Ferdinand (killed 28th June 1914) his death made A/H hate serbia

Question 11

Who was princip

Answer 11

Franz Ferdinand’s assassin. ( shot him on June 28 1914)

Question 12

Imperialism

Answer 12

Empire, uk had the worlds largest empire

Question 13

What did Serbia do

Answer 13

They supplied the gun to kill ff

Question 14

What is the black hand

Answer 14

Princips terrorist group . They gave princip the gun to kill ff .
The terrorist group

Question 15

What was the schlieffen plan

Answer 15

German tactic to avoid a war on 2 fronts against France and Russia. Fight France first by going through Belgium.

Question 16

Why was Germany going through Belgium a bad idea

Answer 16

Because it brought UK into the mix. Uk and Belgium had an alliance . Uk joined war on 4th august

Question 17

What were the top countries in 1914

Answer 17

1. Great Britain
2. Germany
3. France
4. Russia
5. Austria/hungary
6. USA
7. Italy
8. Serbia

Question 18

Alliances(definition)

Answer 18

Being friends with other countries.

Question 19

Who was the king of GB in 1914

Answer 19

George Frederick Ernest Albert ( also George v)

Question 20

Who was the Russian tsar

Answer 20

Nikolai Alexandrivich Romanov (Nicholas’s 2)

Question 21

What do nations share

Answer 21

Language, emblem, flag, land, history, culture, food, traditions, music, common government with people from that country

Question 22

One positive and one negative about nationalism

Answer 22

Pride in country.
Becoming arrogant and thinking your nation is better than others.

Question 23

Tell me about ffs funeral

Answer 23

Him and his wife (Sophie) weren’t very popular.
15 minute long guneral

Question 24

Why did Serbia help kill ff

Answer 24

They wanted to become an independent nation so they helped the black hand.(nationalism)

Question 25

How did the local war between A/H and Serbia turn into a world war

Answer 25

A/H declared war on Serbia on July 28th 1914-keen to fight. A/H got help from triple alliance. Serbia got help from triple entente.

Question 26

What were the Balkan wars

Answer 26

The Balkan Wars were a series of two conflicts fought in the Balkan Peninsula in 1912 and 1913. In the first Balkan War the four Balkan states of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro attacked and overpowered the Ottoman Empire. the Balkan League defeated the Ottoman Empire.

Question 27

Who was in the Balkan league

Answer 27

Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro

Question 28

Who was in the Ottoman Empire

Answer 28

Macedonia Greece Bulgaria Thrace Turkey Greece Kosovo and parts of Albania

Question 29

What do you think the most significant reason /cause for the war was and why

Answer 29

Alliances- as once one country fell out with another then everyone in that alliance was then against the other country. And it just spiralled into a war.

Question 30

Why did people vote nazi

Answer 30

They promised to take them out of the Great Depression.

Question 31

What was taught in schools

Answer 31

Extreme anti semitism and nazi lessons.

Question 32

What was mostly broadcasted in German radios

Answer 32

Nazi propaganda

Question 33

Why did sentries use periscopes

Answer 33

So they didn’t get shot by snipers