2nd year – BILINGUAL PROGRAM

HISTORY IGCSE
Name: ______________________

STUDY GUIDE: Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

1. Read information about the “Assassination of Franz Ferdinand” (pages 1 and 2 from the document entitled ‘The
Four Main Causes of WW1’.
Optional: You can read more information at https://schoolhistory.co.uk/notes/assassination-at-sarajevo/

2. Detect and look up the following words in the dictionary and write down their definitions:
a. Heir: a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's
death
b. Marksmanship: skill in shooting
c. TB: Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially serious infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs.

3. Produce a newspaper front page on the death of Franz Ferdinand. Your article should give a detailed account of
the assassination and some reasons for this assassination. Use your own words as much as possible. You may
want to include details from the link provided in activity 1. You should use any of the two suggestions below to
create your newspaper article. Revise grammar and vocabulary carefully before handing in your work.

The link below leads you to how to create a newspaper template on microsoft word:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w19RO07dH0I

4. Read about “The Four M A I N causes of WW1”, information you can find on pages 3 to 5. Answer the following
questions by completing the diagram on the following page, i.e. write down your answers in the diagram. Feel
free to modify your diagram according to your answers.

a. What does militarism refer to?

b. Which armies had increased in size between 1870 and 1914?
c. What is meant by the term alliance?
d. Which countries were allied by the Triple Alliance?
e. Which countries were allied by the Triple Entente?
f. What is the meaning of Imperialism?
g. Why was Germany annoyed by Imperialism?
h. What does nationalism make reference to?
i. How can Britain and Germany’s patriotism be compared?
5. Find out where Morocco and the Balkans are in a world map in 1914. Insert the map as part of your answer to
the following question: Why were the Moroccans and Bosnians in crisis before the outbreak of WW1?

The Moroccans are in crisis because

they sought independence from
France and the only one who
supported them was Germany, but
they had to back down making the
Moroccans powerless over France. the
Balkans were in crisis because Austria-
Hungary took Bosnia and forced Serbia
to cede land causing tension to rise
between Serbia and Austria-Hungary.
 2nd year – BILINGUAL PROGRAM
HISTORY IGCSE
Name: ______________________

Causes of WW1

Militarism Alliances Imperialism Nationalism

This period saw a

Militarism,
race to acquire
combined with new
weapons, emerging the last territories
An alliance is a Imperialism is a open for Nationalism is
Militarism is a technologies and
developments in formal political, In World War I system where a colonization. an extreme The different
philosophy or
industrial military or we have 2 powerful nation Much of this form of views of each
system that occurred in
production, fueled a economic diferent controls and patriotism and country to
places great European arms race Africa, where
agreement alliances. exploits one or loyalty to one’s nationalism
importance on in the late 1800s Britain, France
between two or more colonies. country.
military power. and early 1900s, and Germany all
especially between more nations.
competed for
Great Britain and
Germany.
new colonial
possessions.

German nationalism was

British nationalism was a new phenomenon,
Germany was fueledby a century of emerging from the
annoyed by the race comparative peace and unification of Germany
The Triple Alliance of the last territories prosperity. The British
The Triple Entente in 1871. It became
conformed by causingseveral Empire had flourished fascinated with German
Germany, Austria- conformed by British,
diplomatic incidents, and expanded, its naval imperial expansion
Russia and France.
Hungary and Italy. such as two strength had grown,and (securing Germany’s
Britons had known only ‘place in the sun’) and
‘Moroccan crises’ resentful of the British
colonial wars.
and their empire.

This diagram is set as an example. You may want to organise information differently. Just go to INSERT → SMART ART … and you choose! You can check info here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoiHolprHS8