Road to First World War

Question 1

imperialism

Answer 1

A policy of extending a country’s power through expansion; this can be economic or political (conquest)

Question 2

empire

Answer 2

A group of states or territories controlled by another country

Question 3

colony

Answer 3

a country or area under the control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country ex: American colonies before Independence from Britain, India as a British colony in the 1800s, Singapore as a British colony before the 1950s

Question 4

industrialisation

Answer 4

The process of moving away from agriculture and towards manufacturing as the primary economic activity

Question 5

Age of Industry

Answer 5

a period from about 1760 to 1900 of increasing industrialisation in Western countries

Question 6

Why did imperialism and industrialisation go together?

Answer 6

1) Industrialising countries need more raw materials, 2) industrialising countries need markets for their finished products, 3) the more a country industrialised the more it was dependent on the colonies for raw materials and markets, just fuelling a vicious cycle, 4) the European countries needed more food to feed growing population centres 5) industrialising countries had an edge over the areas they conquered through more advanced weaponry and communications technology,

Question 7

raw materials

Answer 7

the basic material from which a product is made (cotton, dye, iron, steel, timber, etc.)

Question 8

markets

Answer 8

the place where buyers sell their goods

Question 9

the European country with the largest empire in the world before WWI

Answer 9

Britain

Question 10

France

Answer 10

the European country with the second largest empire in the world before WWI

Question 11

the European country that had missed out on getting colonies because it was not a unified country until 1870

Answer 11

Germany

Question 12

Triple Alliance and Triple Entente

Answer 12

two groups that Europe had divided itself into by 1914

Question 13

Triple Entente

Answer 13

Britain, France, Russia

Question 14

Triple Alliance

Answer 14

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

Question 15

Austria-Hungary

Answer 15

an empire in the middle of Europe that was extremely diverse and beginning to crumble at the end of the 1800s. This empire would not survive WWI. It was composed of today’s countries of Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia, etc. It was consistently unable to deal with the competing national demands of the cultural groups inside it.

Question 16

Second wave of imperialism

Answer 16

a period of colonial expansion during the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1850s-1914); also called Age of Empires