Arms Race + Short Term Causes of WWI (quiz 6)

Question 1

What was the arms race about as much as nationalism and expansionism?

Answer 1

nations’ insecurity

Question 2

What was seen as a valid means of foreign policy?

Answer 2

war

Question 3

Which country was especially militaristic?

Answer 3

Germany

Question 4

What did the quest for colonies make countries?

Answer 4

more militaristic

Question 5

What impacted government attitudes towards war?

Answer 5

imperialism

Question 6

What did militarism result in?

Answer 6

arms race

Question 7

from 1870-1914, what changed in terms of great powers’ spending?

Answer 7

there was a four-fold increase in defence spending

Question 8

Why did Germany want a large standing army?

Answer 8

They were worried due to their location close to France and Russia

Question 9

How good was Germany’s standing army?

Answer 9

very - largest and best in the world

Question 10

What worried Germany in 1914 with Russia?

Answer 10

They had the fastest growing army

Question 11

What did nations introduce in addition to standing armies?

Answer 11

conscription

Question 12

What did conscription mean for countries?

Answer 12

they had large numbers of trained reserves and many soldiers (except Britain)

Question 13

what did imperialism lead to?

Answer 13

arms race

Question 14

What did Germany want as stated by Kaiser Wilhelm in 1900?

Answer 14

‘a place in the sun’ = an empire as big as Britain’s

Question 15

What did Germany need to keep up with Britain?

Answer 15

A large navy

Question 16

Who introduced the German Navy Law?

Answer 16

Admiral Tirpitz

Question 17

When was the German Navy Law introduced?

Answer 17

1900

Question 18

What was the Germany Navy Law?

Answer 18

huge program of building war ships

Question 19

Which countries built Dreadnoughts?

Answer 19

Germany and Britain

Question 20

How did the Dreadnought race impact countries?

Answer 20

they reduced everybody else’s numbers to zero

Question 21

How many Dreadnoughts did Britain want to have in 1909?

Answer 21

4

Question 22

How many Dreadnoughts did the public in Britain want in 1909?

Answer 22

8

Question 23

What were the effects of the arms race?

Answer 23

it increased suspicion and hatred of other nations, and have nations a reason to wage war

Question 24

When was the First Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 24

1905

Question 25

When was The Bosnian Crisis?

Answer 25

1908

Question 26

When was The Second Moroccan Crisis (Agadir Crisis)?

Answer 26

1911

Question 27

When was the Sarajevo Crisis?

Answer 27

1914

Question 28

What was the relationship between France and Morocco before the First Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 28

Morocco was weak and France wanted to conquer it

Question 29

Where was the French Army based in 1903?

Answer 29

on the Moroccan border

Question 30

What did France do in February of 1905?

Answer 30

demanded control over Moroccan army and police, though the sultan refused

Question 31

What did Kaiser Wilhelm do in March of 1905 involving the First Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 31

he visits Tangiers in Morocco, tells French agent (Count Cherisay) that he wanted free trade with them, gave speech to defend Morocco as a free nation

Question 32

What did France and Germany do in the First Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 32

they both threatened war

Question 33

Where was Britain's stance on the First Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 33

They encouraged France to not give up when they were going to back down

Question 34

When was the conference in Algeciras?

Answer 34

1906

Question 35

What was Germany forced to do after the Algeciras conference?

Answer 35

they had to promise to stay out of Morocco

Question 36

What were the outcomes of the First Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 36

France was angry with Germany, Britain was scared by German Empire, Germany was humiliated after conference

Question 37

What did Algeciras convince Germany of?

Answer 37

That other countries were teaming up against them so they started preparing for war

Question 38

What happened in 1908 involving the Bosnian Crisis?

Answer 38

Austria-Hungary takes the former Turkish province of Bosnia

Question 39

What was Serbia's response to Austria-Hungary taking Bosnia?

Answer 39

they were angry, threatened Austria-Hungary with war

Question 40

How were alliances deployed in the Bosnian Crisis?

Answer 40

Russia mobalized its forces after Serbia's threat to Austria-Hungary, Germany then mobalizes its forces to threaten Russia

Question 41

How was war avoided with the Bosnian Crisis?

Answer 41

Russia backed down

Question 42

What was the outcome of the Bosnian Crisis in 1911-1912?

Answer 42

war in Balkans, Balkan states drove Turkey out

Question 43

What were the Balkan states fighting about after the Bosnian Crisis?

Answer 43

Which area should belong to which state

Question 44

What did Austria-Hungary do when The Balkans were sorting out their land arrangements?

Answer 44

They intervened and forced Serbia to give up some acquisitions

Question 45

Where was their an increaese in tension after the Bosnian Crisis?

Answer 45

between Serbia and Austria-Hungary

Question 46

Who entered Algeciras in 1906?

Answer 46

the French foreign legion

Question 47

What did France do involving Morocco in 1910?

Answer 47

they made a loan to Morocco, took control of costoms and taxes and send gunboats to Agadir in Morocco

Question 48

What was going on in northern Morocco in March, 1911?

Answer 48

there was rebellion and the French sent army to defend which made Germany angry

Question 49

What was Germany's claim in June of 1911 involving the Second Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 49

that they needed to protect Germans in Southern Morocco even though there weren't any in southern Morocco

Question 50

What did Kaiser Wilhelm do in July of 1911 which 'rescued' one German?

Answer 50

Sent gunship Panther to Agadir

Question 51

What did Lloyd George do after the Second Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 51

attacked Germany and promised support for France

Question 52

When was the Treaty of Berlin made?

Answer 52

November of 1911

Question 53

What was involved in the Treaty of Berlin?

Answer 53

Germany was forced to remove Panther and take a small piece of land in the Congo instead, Morocco becomes a French colony