Causes of the First World War quiz: imperial rivalry, alliances, the arms race, Balkan nationalism and the July Crisis (N(A)-Level Humanities, History elective) quiz

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Germany's blank cheque to Austria-Hungary

The Austrian ultimatum to Serbia

The naval and military arms race between the great powers

The Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

The Allies and the Axis

The League of Nations and the Central Powers

It guaranteed permanent peace between the great powers

It meant a quarrel between two states could drag in their allies and spread the conflict

It abolished all the European armies

It removed the need for war plans

That Britain and Germany were close allies

That neither country had a navy

That militarism and competition in armaments raised tension between the great powers

That war had already broken out

The aircraft carrier

The frigate

The submarine

The dreadnought

Because declining Ottoman power and rival nationalisms drew in Serbia, Austria-Hungary and Russia

Because they were peaceful and united under Ottoman rule

Because no great power had any interest there

Because they lay outside Europe

Because Serbia wanted to join the Triple Alliance

Because a strong Serbia uniting the South Slavs threatened to break up the multi-national Austro-Hungarian Empire

Because Serbia had no army

Because Serbia was a colony of Britain

Because it created friendship between the great powers

Because it ended all European empires

Because competition for colonies and prestige bred suspicion and crises such as those over Morocco

Because it had no effect on great-power relations

The signing of the Treaty of Versailles

The invasion of Poland

The Wall Street Crash

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in June 1914

A promise of full support for whatever action Austria-Hungary took against Serbia

A loan of money to rebuild Serbia

An order to keep the peace at all costs

A demand that Austria-Hungary disarm

Because Russia immediately surrendered

Because it threatened Germany and Austria-Hungary and set rigid war plans in motion

Because Russia had no army

Because it ended the alliance system

They allowed leaders to pause and negotiate calmly

They had nothing to do with the outbreak of war

They depended on fast railway mobilisation on a fixed timetable, so once mobilisation began it was very hard to stop

They made armies smaller

Because backing down was easy and cost nothing

Because the alliances forbade any negotiation

Because allies always wanted peace at any price

Because a leader who gave way feared looking weak to their allies and losing their support

The long-term tensions had created two armed, suspicious blocs, so the trigger set off a chain reaction

The assassination alone was enough, with no other causes

There were no long-term causes at all

The great powers wanted permanent peace

Describing each cause in turn without judging

Weighing the named factor against other causes and reaching a justified judgement

Listing as many dates as possible

Avoiding any conclusion

They are unrelated to each other

The trigger was more important than every long-term cause combined

The long-term causes made a general war possible and the trigger set it off

Only the long-term causes mattered