Causes of The First World War

Q.

Who was Otto Von Bismarck?

1. Chief minister of Prussia

2. Architect of national unification movement

3. Leader of landowners

4. Both a and b

Q.

Who played the leading role in the unification of Germany?

Q.

Who holds the credit of unifying Germany

Q. Who is known as 'Man of Blood and Iron'?

1. Napolean
2. Ho Chi minh
3. Bismarck
4. Sir Walter Scott

Q. Ram says that the Triple Alliance was formed between Germany, France and Russia. Deepa says that Triple Entente was formed between Germany, France and USA. Who do you think is right?

1. Ram is right.
2. Deepa is right.
3. Both are right.
4. Both are wrong.

Q. Statement 1: In 1870, the Franco-Prussian war broke out. The immediate cause of this war was atmosphere following the withdrawal of the candidacy of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen for the Spanish throne.

Statement 2: The Prussian King, William I, refused to bow to French diplomatic pressure in the future.

1. Both statements are correct.
2. Statement 1 is incorrect but statement 2 is correct.
3. Statement 1 is correct but statement 2 is incorrect.
4. Both statements are incorrect.

Q.

Who crowned himself as the Emperor of France in the year 1852?

1. Louis Napoleon II

2. Louis Napoleon III

3. Napoleon Bonaparte

4. None of the above

Q. The assassination of Austrian Prince Archduke Francis Ferdinand was orchestrated by ________.

1. Schneiders
2. Black hand
3. The special society
4. Germany

Q. The Sarajevo Crisis was orchestrated by a society called 'X'. This Serbian society wanted the liberation of Serbs outside Serbia from Habsburg and Ottoman rule. Their main motive was 'Y', and they were willing to achieve it through violence if necessary.

Identify the organisation 'X', and the motive 'Y'.

1. X: League of Nations
   Y: Unity of all Allied Powers
2. X: Black Hand
   Y: Union of all Slavs under the leadership of Serbia
3. X: Red Vienna
   Y: Preventing the Austria-Hungarian annexation of Serbia
4. X: Serbo-Bosnian Union or Death
   Y: Dismemberment of the House of Habsburg

Q. Bismarck was the architect of ____________ unification.

1. German
2. France
3. Italy
4. Nepal

Q. Who was the Prime Minister of the Prussian King Kaiser William I?

1. Otto von Bismarck
2. Wilhelm Von Bismarck
3. Leo Paul Bismarck
4. Herbert Von Bismarck

Q. Who was the architect of German unification?

1. Kaiser William II
2. Giuseppe Garibaldi
3. Count di Cavour
4. Otto von Bismarck

Q. When did Austria declare war on Serbia?

1. 28 June, 1914
2. 28 July, 1914
3. 18 June, 1914
4. 18 July, 1914

Q. The term 'Crisis' refers to the events surrounding the assassination of the Austrian Prince Archduke Francis Ferdinand.

1. Pan-Slavic
2. Armament
3. Sarajevo

Q. Pick the odd one out from the following.

1. Krupps
2. Vickers Armstrong’s Ltd.
3. Schneiders
4. The Imperator

Q. When did the first world war start?

1. 1st August 1914
2. 2nd March 1914
3. 3rd February 1914
4. 4th January 1914

Q. Bismarck followed the policy of _____________ to unite Germany.

1. Unity in diversity
2. Peaceful co-existence
3. Blood and Iron
4. Appeasement

Q. The alliance system known as the Triple Entente was forged in 1907 among __________.

1. France, Russia and Japan
2. Great Britain, France and Russia
3. Germany, Austria and Italy
4. Italy, Austria and Russia
5. Great Britain, Russia and Germany

Q. The 'Blood and Iron' policy was advocated by ___________.

1. Bismarck
2. Lenin
3. Clody
4. Letin

Q. Which of the following statements is/are true about the 1870 Franco-Prussian war?

1. France won the war.
2. France captured Alsace - Lorraine.
3. It ended the supremacy of France.
4. It resulted in the unification of Germany.

Q. Write the foreign policy of Bismarck.

Q. Which of the following country withdrew from the Triple Alliance during the First World War?

1. Austria
2. Italy
3. Germany
4. Turkey

Q. How did the Sarajevo Crisis in 1914 lead to the First World War?

Q. Which of the following options is/are among the primary causes of World War I?

1. Hostility of Russia towards India
2. The military aggression of Kaiser Wilhelm II
3. Emergence of violent forms of nationalism
4. The Balkan Wars

Q. Which of the following French provinces were ceded to Prussia in 1871?

1. Rhone-Alps
2. Alsace-Lorraine
3. Nouvelle-Aquitaine
4. Centre-Limousin

Q. Out of the given alternatives, choose the one which is nearest in meaning to the italicised word in the sentence.
Because of a family feud, he never spoke to his wife's parents.

1. problem
2. quarrel
3. crisis
4. trouble