OCR GCSE History B Aspects of International Relations 1919 – 2005 Depth Study
The Causes of the First World War
Starter Activity 1: Hate, Fear, Jealous!
This activity is based on Snog, Marry, Avoid.
1. You and your neighbour choose a number 1 or 2. You then make all the countries
comment on one another in: Hate, Fear, Jealous!
2. Did Country 1 =Austria Hungary HATE, FEAR or was it just JEALOUS of
Country 2 =Russia? Justify your decision with evidence.
3. What did Germany feel about Great Britain and vice versa?
4. Mix and match countries and sum up the nature of their relationships, based on the
evidence.
1
2
1
2
1
2
Austria
Hungary
Russia
Germany
Great
Britain
Italy
France
Starter Activity 2:
1. Cut out the tickets below and arrange them in an overlapping pattern to show how
they built up the tension that erupted into World War One.
2. Use the list of countries from Starter Activity 1 and decide which countries were
directly affected by each of the events/issues on the tickets. Allocate the appropriate
tickets to each country in turn.
The Bosnian Crisis 1908
The Algeciras Conference
1906
The Triple Alliance 1882
The development of the
Dreadnought 1906
The Entente Cordiale 1904
Britain’s Empire and status
Weltpolitik
The Dual Alliance (Franco
Russian Alliance) 1899
The Schlieffen Plan
The Sarajevo Assassination
1914
The First Moroccan Crisis
1905
The Anglo Russian
Agreement (Triple Entente)
1907
The doubling in size of
Serbia after the Balkan
Wars 1912
The Second Moroccan
Crisis 1911
Anglo German Naval Race
1900 onwards
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