Imperialism
Countries competing against each other to build the best empire.
What is imperialism?
What is the name of a country conquered by a European power, such as Britain, France, Germany, Belgium or Italy?
What is a colony?
What were the MAIN causes of World War I
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism?
What were the new and most deadline weapons used in World War I
What is The Tank, The flamethrower, Poison Gas, The Machine Gun, The Airplane?
In the trenches, soldiers were in the most danger of contagious disease because of what pest?
What are lice, carrying typhus?
Which country conquered most of West Africa?
What is France?
This area in Europe had formerly been conquered by the Ottoman Empire and wanted independence.
What is the Balkans?
This was the immediate event that started World War I
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What were the Central Powers?
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy and the Ottoman Empire
During their time in the trenches, Britain soldiers emerged with a profound hatred of their enemy, the Germans. True or False?
What is False
Which country conquered the southern tip of Africa?
What is Great Britain?
This is the man who conquered the Belgian Congo and ruled it with great inhumanity.
Who is King Leopold?
This is the man that shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
What were the Allied Powers?
What are Great Britain, France, Russia, (and later the USA)
During the Spanish flu pandemic, the source of the pandemic was Spain. True or false
What is false?
Which country took away Aboriginal children from their mothers to be raised in institutions to be domestic servants?
What is Australia?
This is the conference where Europeans divided up Africa
What is the Berlin Conference?
What was Gavrilo Princip trying to achieve?
What is Serbian Independence?
What is the Lusitania?
The Spanish flu pandemic killed how many people worldwide?
What is 50 million people?
What were some of the reasons why Europeans wanted colonies?
What is to gain resources, to sell their products their, and for political prestige.
This is the war where China wanted to stop Britain from dumping drugs into their country and addicting their people.
What is The Opium War?
How can one say that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was so careless as to be partially responsible for his own assassination?
What is:
Riding in a convertible
Publishing your route in advance
Driving slowly around Sarajevo after one of your men has been injured by a bomb intended for you
When the Germans sunk the ship Lusitania, they used what kind of ship?
Submarines
Were the more similarities or more differences in the most effective strategies used to contain the spread of the Spanish flu pandemic and Covid-19?
There were more similarities since they were both respiratory illnesses:
Quarantine of the infected, masking, social distancing, good hygiene.