Category 1: MAIN Causes
This term means building large armies and preparing for war.
What is militarism?
This Austrian archduke was assassinated in 1914.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This country came to Serbia’s defense after Austria-Hungary declared war.
What is Russia?
The rapid preparation and movement of troops for war.
What is mobilization?
True or false: World War I was caused by only one event.
What is false?
This cause involved agreements between countries to defend and support one another.
What are alliances?
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on this date.
What was June 28, 1914?
This country supported Austria-Hungary and declared war on Russia.
What is Germany?
The right of a people or nation to govern themselves.
What is self-determination?
This cause made countries prepared to fight by building armies, weapons, and military plans.
What is militarism?
This cause involved competition for colonies, resources, land, and power.
What is imperialism?
The assassination occurred in this region, known as the “Powder Keg of Europe.”
What are the Balkans?
Germany’s plan to quickly defeat France before concentrating on Russia had this name.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
A territory controlled by another country.
What is a colony?
These two causes worked together because one prepared countries to fight while the other pulled additional countries into the conflict.
What are militarism and alliances?
This cause encouraged people to believe their country or ethnic group was superior to others.
What is nationalism?
Austria-Hungary blamed this country for the assassination and declared war against it.
What is Serbia?
Germany’s invasion of Belgium helped bring this country into the war.
What is Great Britain?
A tense situation that could explode into conflict at any moment.
What is a powder keg?
This is the strongest explanation for why alliances were an important long-term cause of World War I.
What is they turned a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia into a larger European war?
Name all four long-term causes represented by the acronym MAIN.
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
Explain why the assassination is called the “spark” rather than the only cause of World War I.
What is it triggered tensions that had already developed because of militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
This phrase describes how one declaration of war caused several other countries to enter the conflict.
What is a chain reaction?
The policy of remaining outside a war or conflict.
What is neutrality?
Explain how the long-term causes and the assassination worked together to start World War I.
What is MAIN created years of tension and instability, while the assassination provided the spark that triggered war?