Deck 13: Internal Conflict

Question 1

A conflict can start without any preceding internal instability.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Government force used to counter riots and protests usually has adverse effects.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A revolution is a major, long-term political warfare within a state.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A coup does not bring about any fundamental change in regime.

Question 5

Poverty is considered as one of the most important precipitating factors of civil war.

Question 6

Foreign invasions were not a factor in the successful Communist revolutions.

Question 7

A proxy war is a war at arm's length, where the two opposing sides do not directly tangle with each other.

Question 8

Selective incentives used to entice recruits to a rebel group to end dictatorial rule often form the basis for corruption under the new regime.

Question 9

Greed is the motivating factor for all involved in conflict.

Question 10

The United States has been prudent and responsible while engaging with Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria; and therefore, it could avert many ethnic, tribal, and religious conflicts.

Question 11

The 1979 Iranian revolution was led by ________.

A) Communists
B) the common people
C) Islamic clerics
D) the army
E) the SAVAK secret police

Question 12

A civil war is a ________.

A)major, long-term political warfare within a state
B) short-term warfare between two neighboring states
C) dramatic replacement of one regime by another
D) swift replacement of leadership usually by military forces
E) short-term organized protest against an oppressive regime

Question 13

Which of the following statements about civil wars holds true?

A) Civil wars are shorter than interstate wars.
B) Civil wars occur mainly in African and Asian countries.
C) Civil wars do not cause death and destruction.
D) Civil wars can be a product of international politics.
E) Civil wars do not spill over to other countries.

Question 14

How would you distinguish between a civil war and a revolution?

A) A civil war describes a process and a revolution an outcome.
B) A civil war describes an outcome and a revolution a process.
C) A civil war will most certainly end in revolution.
D) A revolution refers to a dramatic change of regime, while a civil war replaces one leader with another through use of force.
E) Both mean the same.

Question 15

Which of the following regions has experienced the most coups?

A) Latin America
B) Europe
C) Middle East
D) North America
E) Asia

Question 16

Which of the following is true of a coup?

A) A coup replaces a leader through peaceful, democratic means.
B) A coup is always nonviolent.
C) A coup is always bloody.
D) A coup is carried out by the common people.
E) A coup aims at simply taking power.

Question 17

Who among the following has become synonymous with revolution the world over?

A) George Washington
B) Augusto César Sandino
C) Ernesto "Che" Guevara
D) Luis Inácio Lula da Silva
E) Jesus Christ

Question 18

The theory of relative deprivation explains that people are more willing to turn to violence when ________.

A) faced with extreme poverty
B) physically tortured
C) their expectations are not met at an acceptable level
D) they have long been beaten down in a society of absolute poverty
E) they become sick

Question 19

The theory of relative deprivation is most often applied to ________.

A) the cultural gap
B) the economic gap
C) the religious deprivation
D) the social deprivation
E) the educational gap

Question 20

A long, desperate foreign war may give birth to an internal war in a country. This was especially true of ________.

A) the 1917 Russia conflict
B) World War I
C) World War II
D) the Ivory Coast conflict of the early 2000s
E) the Communist Party takeover of China

Question 21

The civil conflict in Ivory Coast in the early 2000s was primarily due to ________.

A) religious tensions
B) interstate war
C) famine
D) economic decline
E) ethnic conflict

Question 22

Which of the statements is NOT true of the Cold War?

A) The number of civil wars peaked at the end of the Cold War.
B) No war was directly fought between the United States and the Soviet Union.
C) The Soviet Union collapsed at the end of the Cold War.
D) Both the Soviet Union and United States provided opposition groups with weapons.
E) The Soviet Union became stronger at the end of the Cold War.

Question 23

Who provided the Tamil Tigers financial aid for their civil war against Sri Lankan authorities?

A) the diaspora
B) the superpowers
C) the United States
D) Russia
E) rebel groups in India

Question 24

Hutu-Tutsi strife in Rwanda, Sinhalese-Tamil tension in Sri Lanka, and Tuareg in Mali are examples of civil conflict due to ________.

A) ethnic diversity
B) poverty
C) unemployment
D) Maoist intellectualism
E) imperialism

Question 25

In which of the following countries is civil conflict caused by both vast unemployment and poverty?

A) India
B) Sri Lanka
C) Mali
D) Yugoslavia
E) Somalia

Question 26

The 2009 Iranian Green movement was possible because the protesters could organize themselves quickly via ________.

A) the GPS system
B) mobile phones
C) Facebook and Twitter
D) Google Earth
E) wireless systems

Question 27

Which of the following countries is more likely to experience a civil war on account of it being an anocracy?

A) Venezuela
B) the United States
C) the United Kingdom
D) North Korea
E) China

Question 28

Which of the following scenarios best applies to the greed argument?

A)2009 Iranian Green movement
B)India-Pakistan border issue
C)Sinhalese-Tamil civil conflict in Sri Lanka
D)Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front
E)Somalian civil wars

Question 29

What caused Marxist revolutions in Latin American countries?

A) bad conditions of the poor classes
B) unequal political power sharing
C) natural disasters
D) industrialization
E) racial discrimination

Question 30

The goal of a ________ is to simply take power.

A) protest
B) riot
C) civil war
D) coup
E) revolution

Question 31

What is the difference between interstate and intrastate conflicts? Differentiate between various types of internal conflicts. Give suitable examples for each of them.

Question 32

Distinguish between a civil war and a revolution. Discuss how one of them describes a process while the other an outcome. Give suitable examples.

Question 33

Discuss how relative deprivation caused Communist revolutions. What is the "frustration-aggression hypothesis"? Apply the concept in some of the scenarios where Communist revolutions took place.

Question 34

What are the factors contributing to internal conflicts other than dissatisfaction? Discuss how civil tensions escalate with the help of the diaspora, other states, and other rebel groups with shared interests. Cite examples.

Question 35

Does greed play a part in civil tensions? If so, how? Provide examples for your arguments.