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World War 1 Causes - English Vocabulary & Comprehension

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 11mins

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1.

Militarism means a belief that a country should maintain a strong military and fights aggressively to defend or promote national interests.

What’s wrong with the grammar here?

a)

Militarism

b)

fights

c)

aggressively

d)

defend

e)

Promote

2.

Which cause of WWI can be best described as a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force

a)

Militarism

b)

Alliances

c)

Imperialism

d)

Nationalism

e)

Ethnocentrism

3.

Alliance is ……

a)

a union formed for mutual benefits

b)

A cause of WW1

c)

Two countries merged to be one country.

d)

Two countries offer to support each other if one or the other is attacked. 

4.

One cause of the war was EXTREME devotion to the interests and culture's of one's nation called

a)

countryism

b)

nationalism

c)

patriotism

d)

socialism

5.

Imperialism caused

a)

increased efforts to solve problems between countries

b)

decreased competition between countries

c)

increased competition between countries

d)

decreased tension between countries

6.

most of the fighting of World War I take place in europium

The sentence above has some serious mistake. Please rewrite and make it correct.

(a)  

7.

The names of the two major alliances before WW1 were:

a)

The Axis & The Allies

b)

The Triple Alliance & The Triple Entente

c)

The West & The East

d)

Oceania & Eurasia

8.

Alliances meant that ...

a)

A small war could quickly expand into a much larger war

b)

Europe was guaranteed not to fight a major war

c)

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

d)

Small countries were too afraid to start wars

9.

Imperialism caused most 'great powers' to

a)

expand their lands across the world, particularly in Africa and Asia

b)

expand their trade networks with developing countries

c)

expand their alliances with other European countries

d)

order around smaller, weaker European countries

10.

Imperialism helped cause WWI because...

a)

Enslaved peoples of the world rebelled against their Imperial masters

b)

Competition between Europe's great powers over control of foreign empires led to tensions

c)

Natural resources from these empires allowed countries to build up vast armies

d)

It didn't help cause World War One

11.

Imperialism caused …..

a)

WW1

b)

Colonisations

c)

Asia and Africa got attacked and controlled by powerful countries.

d)

America got controlled by Europe.