BA Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894-1918: Practice Questions

• a.

  Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

• b.

  Britain, France, and Russia

• c.

  France, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire

• d.

  Germany, Russia, and Britain

• a.

  It led to a secret economic treaty between Germany and the United States that isolated French trade.

• b.

  It was a policy that encouraged the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to trigger a Balkan war.

• c.

  It promoted the immediate decolonization of Africa, which caused a diplomatic split between Britain and France.

• d.

  It signaled Germany's ambition for global power and a large navy, which Britain viewed as a direct threat to its naval supremacy.

• a.

  German military leaders were forced to retreat when Italy successfully invaded southern Germany through the Alps.

• b.

  The German army outran its supply lines and suffered high casualties among its best troops, while the Allies were reinforced by fresh American forces.

• c.

  The offensive was stopped by a sudden Russian counter-attack on the Eastern Front following the collapse of the Bolshevik government.

• d.

  The German navy mutinied and refused to provide the necessary artillery support for the final breakthrough on the Western Front.

• a.

  1914

• b.

  1915

• c.

  1918

• d.

  1917

• a.

  To launch a surprise invasion of Russia before the Tsar's army could mobilize its forces in the east.

• b.

  To use the German navy to blockade the British Isles and force a surrender through starvation.

• c.

  To establish a series of defensive trenches along the Rhine to protect German industrial heartlands.

• d.

  To achieve a rapid victory over France by invading through neutral Belgium, thereby avoiding a long war on two fronts.

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