Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. The Balkan Crisis of 1912-13 was a combination of two short wars that led to the heightening of tensions between Austria-Hungary and Russia, as well as a stronger and resurgent Serbia. One of the spoils of war for Serbia was a port on the Adriatic, a plea for which led to a conference in London creating what modern nation?
2. The web of alliances spun around Europe prior to 1914 was a key reason World War I resulted in a "world" war. Japan, which eventually declared war on Germany on August 23, 1914, was brought into the War on the side of the Allies because it was honoring a 1902 agreement signed between Japan and what Allied nation?
3. In July 1911, an international incident occurred when a German gunboat sailed into a Moroccan port in an attempt to pressure France into an alliance with Germany. The German tactic failed, and instead of scaring France, the crisis pushed Britain further into the Entente Cordiale with France. Into which port did this gunboat sail?
4. In order to actualize Helmuth von Moltke's 1906 version of the Schlieffen Plan, he decided not to pass through through the Netherlands, but to send German troops through Belgium and Luxembourg only. The potential violation of established Belgian neutrality was one of many reasons the British government found it to be impossible to be neutral in WWI, which was mostly due to which Treaty that guaranteed independence and neutrality of Belgium?
5. The President of France from 1913 to 1920, Raymond Poincaré was elected after a wave of popular nationalism across France. Poincaré was generally known as a hawk and supporter of the Franco-Russian alliance, support possibly attributed to his birth in what territory that had been contested by Germany and France?
6. In the spring of 1881, France occupied Tunisia and established a protectorate over it, much to the chagrin of Italy, who had seen Tunisia as a potential colony of her own. Because of its desire to become an overseas empire, Italy later joined the German-Austrian Alliance in 1882, which ostensibly lasted until WWI. What was that agreement titled?
7. In 1913, one of the major French domestic issues was the implementation of a three-year draft to take the place of the then-current two-year draft obligation. One of the strongest voices against this measure was the leader of the French Socialist Party, a man who was an anti-militarist and believed in a diplomatic solution to prevent war between Germany and France. Who was this Frenchman, eventually assassinated in Paris only three days after Austria declared war?
8. German political leaders, who were mostly conservative Prussian Junkers, were aware of the rise in socialism and anti-militarism in the country in the years leading up to WWI. The 1912 German parliamentary elections brought the assent of which leftist political party in the Reichstag, a party which still exists?
9. Much has been made of the fact that Germany's increase in funding of and strategic importance placed upon its naval program caused a realignment of British foreign policy favoring Russia and France. Certainly, Britain did not want to lose naval supremacy but, at the start of World War I, was the naval strength of Britain in terms of both personnel and tonnage slightly more than double the size of Germany's?
10. And finally, the final 'spark' to World War I. In what month was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria killed in Sarajevo?
Source: Author
GWU_Boy
This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor
bloomsby before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.
