causes of wwi

Alliances meant that ...

• A small war could quickly expand into a much larger war

• Europe was guaranteed not to fight a major war

• Countries didn't feel the need to build up their armies

• Small countries were too afraid to start wars

Nationalism helped spark WWI because ...

• groups who wanted Bosnia to leave Austria assassinated the Austrian heir to the throne

• nations wanted to test their armed forces against countries that they thought were weaker

• Germany wanted to unite all of Europe in one country, like the European Union today

• France felt its national honour had been insulted by Germany

Austria-Hungary was politically very unstable due to...

• climate change leading to failure of many crops

• the economic chaos caused by the great depression

• grinding poverty and a big gap between rich and poor

• being a multi-ethnic country, with many groups wanting to leave Austria & form their own nations

The trigger cause for WWI was the assassination of ...

• Archy Duke by an Ostrich while on safari in East Africa

• Archduke Ostrickt in August 1914, by German secret agent

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914 in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo

• Archduke Ferdinand Marcos while watching a play in Vienna

Militarism is the belief that ...

• Countries should build up powerful militaries and be prepared to use them to advance the nation

• The military is an honourable profession but should not be given any political power

• All countries should disarm beacuse maintaining large armies is both costly and dangerous

• Problems between countries should not be solved by war

MAIN stands for ...

• Miitarism, Alliances, Intervention, Non-Aggression

• Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

• Militarism, Adventurism, Imperialism, Non-Aggression

• Mutually Assured Instant Nihilism

A deep-rooted, excessive pride in one's country is better known as

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

• Industrialization

• Militarism

• Alliances

Many of the countries of Europe were dragged into the war by other countries they supported because of THIS cause.

• Alliances

• Nationalism

• Imperialism

• Militarism

Imperialism is __________.

• when a powerful nation uses its resources to help a weaker nation
• when a weaker nation invites a powerful nation to help it industrialize
• when a powerful nation takes control of the economy and government of a weaker nation
• when weak nations join together to fight a strong nation

Who created the Fourteen Points?

• Hitler

• Woodrow Wilson

• Vladimir Lenin