The Rise of the Modern World Dates

Question 1

When was the first Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 1

March 1905 to May 1906

Question 2

When was the second Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 2

April 1911

Question 3

When was the ‘Blank Cheque’ issued?

Answer 3

July 1914

Question 4

When was the Anglo-German naval race?

Answer 4

1898-1912

Question 5

When was the Dreadnought class ship first launched by Britain?

Answer 5

1906

Question 6

When was the War Council?

Answer 6

December 1912

Question 7

When was Lenin’s Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism published?

Answer 7

1917

Question 8

When did Fritz Fischer publish his Germany’s Aims in the First World War

Answer 8

1961

Question 9

When was Franz Ferdinand assassinated?

Answer 9

June 1914

Question 10

When did Germany declare war on Russia?

Answer 10

August 1914

Question 11

When was the German Empire formed?

Answer 11

1971 following the Franco-Prussian war of 1970

Question 12

When did Scientific Racism take off in Europe?

Answer 12

1850s

Question 13

When was de Gobineau’s Essay on the Inequality of Human Races written?

Answer 13

1853

Question 14

How long did the Congo Free State exist?

Answer 14

from 1885-1908

Question 15

When were the Matabele Wars?

Answer 15

1893-97

Question 16

When was the Herero Massacre?

Answer 16

January 1904-07

Question 17

When were the Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 17

1935

Question 18

When was the vaccine for Cholera developed?

Answer 18

1879

Question 19

When was the Maxim Gun developed?

Answer 19

1883

Question 20

When was the Triple Alliance formed?

Answer 20

1882

Question 21

When was the Triple Entente formed?

Answer 21

1907

Question 22

When was the Schlieffen Plan designed?

Answer 22

1905

Question 23

When did Austria-Hungary annex Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Answer 23

1908

Question 24

When were the Balkan Wars?

Answer 24

1912 and 1913