world war 1

History quiz: world war 1

By 1850 Britain's industry had made her rich and she was increasing her navy to protect the sea routes to her great empire.

In 1871 Germany became a new nation after her massive army beat France in a bitter war.

since 1878 Russia had worked hard to gain allies and friends in western Europe by helping nationalist groups there.

Serbia was helped by the Triple Entente alliance. It tied together these three great powers: Russia, France and the UK

Germany had a new leader in 1888 and he wanted his country to build an empire

Germany spent a lot of money after 1900 to catch up with Britain's navy.

By 1911 Germany believed she was encircled by an enemy alliance.

Bulgaria had grown in 1912 and 1913 and it wanted to join all serbs in one nation

All the great powers were growing their armies and navies between 1913 and 1914

Austria-Hungary was a powerful empire which feared it might fall apart if it gave in to nationalists in 1914

Serb nationalists murdered the Austrian Archduke on 28th June 1914

Europe's complicated system of alliances dragged all the great powers into war by 4 August 1914

Serbia's enemies included the alliance of the central powers, ottoman empire and  Austro-Hungarian empire.

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