Nationalism
What is nationalism? Answer: Pride in one’s country and culture.
Answer: Pride in one’s country and culture.
Why was Africa a major conflict zone in the early 1900s?
Answer: Most colonies were already taken, leading to competition.
Define militarism.
Answer: A massive build-up of military forces, using them to solve conflicts.
What three nations were part of the Triple Alliance?
Answer: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist group.
Which two countries united in the late 1800s, upsetting Europe’s balance of power?
Answer: Italy and Germany.
Which three empires wanted control of the Balkans?
Answer: Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Russia.
Which two nations competed in a naval arms race by building dreadnoughts?
Answer: Germany and Great Britain.
What three nations made up the Triple Entente?
Answer: Great Britain, France, and Russia.
Why did Austria-Hungary want to punish Serbia after the assassination?
Answer: They believed the Serbian government was behind it.
What piece of land did France lose to Germany, creating long-lasting tension?
Answer: Alsace-Lorraine.
What was the Bosnian Crisis?
Answer: Austria took Bosnia, but Serbia believed it was their land.
Between 1870 and 1914, how much did European military spending increase?
From 94 million to 368 million.
Why did alliances make small conflicts into world wars?
Answer: An attack on one nation brought in all of its allies.
What was Germany’s “blank check”?
Answer: A promise to support Austria-Hungary in any action against Serbia.
Why was Austria-Hungary unstable due to nationalism?
Answer: It contained many ethnic groups that wanted independence.
What crisis in North Africa involved Germany supporting independence movements?
Answer: The Morocco Crisis.
What was discussed in secret military talks between Germany and Austria?
Whether to attack France or Russia first.
Which country secretly promised France it wouldn’t attack, despite being in the Triple Alliance?
Italy
Why did Germany declare war on France two days after declaring war on Russia?
Answer: France was allied with Russia and Germany wanted to fight on one front at a time.
What nickname was given to the Balkans because of rising tensions?
“The Powder Keg of Europe.”
Why did imperialism increase tensions in Europe?
Answer: Countries competed fiercely for colonies as fewer remained.
Why did militarism make war more likely?
Answer: Countries relied on force to settle disputes instead of diplomacy.
Why was the alliance system considered dangerous?
Answer: It created two hostile camps, ready for war.
What was the Schlieffen Plan?
Answer: Germany’s plan to quickly defeat France by invading through Belgium, then fight Russia.