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Militarism Questions
•What causes militarism? What is its main purpose?
caused by the desire to protect overseas colonies from other countries
its purpose is to protect & defend
Militarism Questions
• Why do you think Germany & Great Britain raced to have the best navies?
Great Britain could cut Germany off
Germany could cut Great Britain off
Germany could have become more powerful
Militarism Questions
• What did the major countries do to prepare for both offense (attacking others) and defense (protecting themselves)?
-increased stocks of arms
-more modern weapons
-built strategic railways
Militarism Questions
• How was militarism a
cause of WWI?
European countries built up massive
armies & stocks of weapons
countries were ready to fight
Alliances Questions
•What is the main purpose of
an alliance?
purpose is to protect themselves
from opposing armed forces
Alliances Questions
• What did the leaders of alliances in the late 1800s hope would happen?
hoped no country would attack another, since it would provoke that country’s allies to fight as well
Alliances Questions
• Why do you think so many alliances
were made? If there had been unrest in
Europe, how would alliances help?
alliances were made because Europe wanted
peace & these were a way to keep
countries from fighting
Alliances Questions
• In the Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907, there
are some examples of why Great Britain and
Russia allied despite the fact that they had
been rivals. What are some of these examples?
-they were greatly threatened by Germany
-didn’t like Wilhelm II’s aggressiveness
-Germany became a bigger enemy to Great
Britain than Russia had been
Alliances Questions
• How were alliances a cause
of WWI?
-alliances drew other countries into war when
two countries began fighting
-had been made secretly, causing suspicion
-heightened war tension
-Germany was surrounded
Imperialism Questions
•What was the main purpose of imperialism?
purpose was to expand empire as far as possible
to become more powerful
Imperialism Questions
• How might a country defend a
colony/territory it controlled that was
hundreds of thousands of miles away?
it might need a large army
it might need a large/fast navy
Imperialism Questions
• What might happen with so many
colonies/territories that were so close
to possible enemies, such as in Africa?
two countries might claim the same
territory as their own
fighting might easily break out
Imperialism Questions
• What did colonial rivalry (similar to imperialism) lead to indirectly? What were the relationships among the powers like?
-formation & strengthening of alliances
-intense arms race
-relationships hurt because all wanted the same things
Imperialism Questions
• How did imperialism help
cause WWI?
each country wanted to be better than
others
each country wanted to keep its power
Nationalism Questions
• What is nationalism? What are the two different kinds of nationalism?
nationalism is a strong devotion to a national group or culture
1) desire of subject people for independence
2) desire of independent nations for dominance & prestige
Nationalism Questions
• What areas did France lose to Germany
in 1871? How would you feel as a person
who lived in that area? What would
you do?
Alsace-Lorraine was lost to Germany
upset because I didn’t have a say in all of the
sudden having a new government
Nationalism Questions
• Which country had the largest
overseas empire? Which kind of
nationalism did this country have?
Great Britain
second kind, to keep dominance &
prestige
Nationalism Questions
• How was nationalism a cause
of WWI?
some areas had a lot of ethnic unrest &
wanted their own countries
ex: Serbia & Austria-Hungary