Worksheets8 Causes of Conflict
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which of the following is not a cause of conflict?
Economic gain
Territorial gain
Religion
Famine
What cause is associated with a war over valuable resources?
Territorial gain
Revenge
Economic gain
Civil War
Which cause is about defending your country from a threat of attack or a real attack?
Economic gain
Defensive/ Preemptive War
Revolutionary War
Nationalism
What is the reason defensive/preemptive war is controversial?
A threat of attack can be used as an excuse to go to war with another country.
The threat might not be real.
There could have been peace talks before the country decided to attack another country.
All are correct.
Which of the following is not one of the 8 causes of conflict?
Revenge
Nationalism
Civil war
Major disagreement
Which cause has ties to revenge/nationalism AND leads to neither side surrendering due to it being a conflict over strongly held beliefs?
Revenge
Territorial gain
Religious Reasons
Nationalism
Which cause is associated with the need for more room for a growing population?
Territorial gain
Nationalism
Religious Reasons
Economic gain
What cause involves an effort to prove your country is superior through violent domination?
Nationalism
Economic gain
Religious reasons
Revenge
What cause is highly emotional and involves harming a country that harmed you first?
Nationalism
Religious Reasons
Territorial Gain
Revenge
Which of the following is not one of the 8 causes of conflict?
Revolutionary war
Defensive war
Natural Disasters
What cause is associated with two groups divided on an issue that deals with how their country should be run, leading them to go to war?
Revolutionary War
Economic gain
Civil War
Religious Reasons
A conflict in which a group of oppressed citizens organize to take over the government to end their oppression is a _________.
Civil War
Revenge
Revolutionary War
Nationalism
