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ICSE Class 10 Contemporary World: World Wars & UN — practice questions

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The rise of which new empire disturbed Europe's balance after 1871?Read the answer and worked solution →French hostility to Germany after 1871 was intensified by the loss of:Read the answer and worked solution →Before 1914, which great power supported Serbia as a protector of Slavs?Read the answer and worked solution →Which empire's decline intensified great-power rivalry in the Balkans?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1908, Bosnia and Herzegovina were annexed by:Read the answer and worked solution →Which region was called Europe's powder keg before 1914?Read the answer and worked solution →Which countries formed the pre-war Triple Alliance?Read the answer and worked solution →Which grouping formed the Triple Entente before the war?Read the answer and worked solution →The Dual Alliance became a Triple Alliance when Italy joined in:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1904 Entente Cordiale brought closer relations between:Read the answer and worked solution →Italy's neutrality in 1914 rested on which claim about the Triple Alliance?Read the answer and worked solution →HMS Dreadnought symbolised competition in building which weapons?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose assassination triggered the Sarajevo crisis?Read the answer and worked solution →Franz Ferdinand was heir to which throne in 1914?Read the answer and worked solution →In which city was the Austro-Hungarian heir assassinated?Read the answer and worked solution →When did the Sarajevo assassination occur?Read the answer and worked solution →Austria-Hungary's July 1914 ultimatum was addressed to:Read the answer and worked solution →Which declaration on 28 July 1914 began the First World War?Read the answer and worked solution →Russia's mobilisation in July 1914 was undertaken in support of:Read the answer and worked solution →Germany's invasion of which neutral country helped bring Britain into the war?Read the answer and worked solution →The main post-war negotiations over Germany's peace terms were held in:Read the answer and worked solution →When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?Read the answer and worked solution →Which room hosted the signing of the Versailles Treaty?Read the answer and worked solution →Which French leader pressed for security through weakening Germany at Versailles?Read the answer and worked solution →Who represented Britain among the main Versailles peacemakers?Read the answer and worked solution →The Fourteen Points peace programme was proposed by:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Versailles settlement, reparations meant:Read the answer and worked solution →Article 231 attributed responsibility for Allied war losses to:Read the answer and worked solution →What maximum German army strength did Versailles permit?Read the answer and worked solution →Versailles required Germany's system of compulsory military service to be:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The rise of which new empire disturbed Europe's balance after 1871?

  1. The Ottoman Empire
  2. The Russian Empire
  3. The German Empire
  4. The Habsburg Empire
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Correct answer: C. The German Empire

German unification created a powerful empire that challenged the existing European balance.

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French hostility to Germany after 1871 was intensified by the loss of:

  1. Alsace-Lorraine
  2. Eupen-Malmedy
  3. Schleswig-Holstein
  4. Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Correct answer: A. Alsace-Lorraine

France sought to recover Alsace-Lorraine, lost to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War.

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Before 1914, which great power supported Serbia as a protector of Slavs?

  1. German Empire
  2. Russian Empire
  3. Habsburg Empire
  4. British Empire
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Correct answer: B. Russian Empire

Pan-Slavic Russia regarded itself as a protector of Serbia and other Slav states.

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