Practice question · True or false
Every member of the Triple Alliance fought on that alliance’s side when war broke out in 1914.
Hints
- Count the members and then count who was fighting alongside Germany in August 1914.
- One of the three stayed neutral and later joined the other side.
Show the answer
False
Why
False. Italy declared neutrality in 1914, arguing the alliance was defensive and Austria had been the aggressor, and joined the Entente in 1915 after being offered territory. It is the clearest single piece of evidence against the idea that the alliance system operated automatically.
Practise From 1870 to 1914: Towards the First World War
The app has 4 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. History II is free to start.
More questions on From 1870 to 1914: Towards the First World War
- Arrange these developments in pre-war diplomacy, earliest first.
- Why is it inaccurate to describe the Entente Cordiale of 1904 as an alliance?
- Complete the account of the naval race.
- Diplomatic alignments are often described as structural 'systems' of collective security. What critical…
- Sort each crisis by whether it left GERMANY more isolated or left RUSSIA or its clients aggrieved.
- Arrange the events of the July crisis of 1914 in order.
- In which year did the Anglo-Russian Convention settle disputes over Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet, completing…
- Historians have reached a settled verdict that Germany deliberately provoked a general war in 1914.
- The German SPD became the largest party in the Reichstag at the elections of 1912. Estimate the percentage of…