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Why Was The War Declared Quiz
Can you figure out why historically major wars were declared in this quiz?
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Last updated: November 25, 2019
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| First submitted | November 24, 2019 |
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Let's start with an easy one. Why did Austro - Hungary declare war on Serbia in 1914?
Austro - Hungary needed natural resources from Serbia.
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Serbian Gavrilo Princip shot archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne.
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Austro - Hungary and Serbia were fighting over religion.
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A trade conflict. Austro - Hungary was sending resources to Russia while Serbia was fighting Russia and refused to cancel the shipment to Russia.
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What caused the chain reaction which led to WWII?
Germany declared war on Poland to get the Yugoslavian Corridor.
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The USSR declared war on Finland.
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Germany declared war on Poland to get the Polish Corridor.
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Italy declared war on France to restore the Roman Empire.
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Why did the USA join WWI?
The Zimmerman Telegram.
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Germany re-continued its unrestricted submarine warfare doctrine and sunk several US ships.
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All of the above.
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The Russian Revolution, causing Russia to become communist.
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Why did the USA join WWII?
Japanese bombings of Pearl harbour.
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The USSR was losing against the Germans and The U.S wanted to help.
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The USA wanted colonial possessions in North Africa.
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The U.S.S Panay incident.
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Why did the hundred years' war begin?
England wanted French colonial possessions.
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French colonists skirmished over new world colonies.
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The Holy Roman Empire had controlled France and England and they revolted.
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A conflict on who should be the rightful heir to the empty French throne between England and Philip VI of France.
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6.
Why did Japan declare war on China in 1937?
The Macro Polio Bridge Incident.
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War wasn't declared in 1937.
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The Marco Polo Bridge Incident.
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Dominance over Korea.
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Why did the USA revolt from the UK?
The Thirteen Colonies were over-taxed and they had no representatives in parliment.
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9/11.
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To become a world superpower.
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To stop British colonialism.
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8.
Why did the War on Terror begin?
9/II.
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9/11.
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9II.
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911.
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Why did the Confederate States break free from the rest of the USA?
Refusal of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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The north's lack of compliance with the Dred Scott Act.
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All of above.
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Nazism.
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Why did the USA want to declare war on north Vietnam?
To destroy all communism.
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They crossed the 38th parallel and invaded the south.
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The North Vietnamese blew up the U.S.S Maine.
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The domino theory.
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