Causes of World War One quiz: imperial rivalry, militarism, alliances and the July Crisis (O-Level Elective History) quiz

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Germany's blank cheque to Austria-Hungary

The Austrian ultimatum to Serbia

The militarism and 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

In Antarctica

In North America

In Australia

In the Balkans, amid the decline of Ottoman power

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in June 1914

The signing of the Treaty of Versailles

The Wall Street Crash

The invasion of Poland

A loan of money to rebuild Serbia

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

An order to keep the peace at all costs

A demand that Austria-Hungary disarm

Because Russia immediately surrendered

Because Russia had no army

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

Because it ended the alliance system

To make peace with France

To disband the German army

To invade Britain first

To defeat France quickly through Belgium before turning to face Russia, avoiding a long two-front war

It brought Britain into the war, since Britain had guaranteed Belgian neutrality

It kept Britain neutral

It ended the fighting at once

It caused Russia to leave the war

The assassination alone was enough, with no other causes

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

There were no long-term causes at all

The great powers wanted permanent peace

Describing each cause in turn without judging

Listing as many dates as possible

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

Avoiding any conclusion

They are unrelated to each other

Only the long-term causes mattered

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

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

Because it created friendship between the great powers

Because it ended all European empires

Because it had no effect on great-power relations