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CLEP Western Civ II

Category - WWI

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Why did England have no formal alliance on the European continent at the outbreak of World War I?
  1. England proclaimed neutrality to maximize trade markets.
  2. England's foreign policy at the time was to maintain peace at any cost.
  3. England did not want to bed ragged into a continental conflict.
  4. England was universally despised.
  5. Formal systems of alliance had broken down since the Congress of Vienna.
Explanation
Answer: D - England had no formal alliances at the outbreak of World War I because it was universally despised. Its aggressive pursuit of empire in Africa and Asia had alienated the rest of Europe. In fact, Germany had hoped that England would stay out of the conflict entirely. Historians speculate that had Germany known that England would enter the conflict, it would not have backed Austria as aggressively as it did.
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