Deck 1: Change and Continuity in International History

Question 1

World War I

A)was brought to a formal end with the Treaty of Versailles.
B)ushered in the modern state system.
C)ended the modern state system.
D)led to the creation of the United Nations.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The Treaty of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years War.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The Great Depression contributed to the outbreak of World War I.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The organization created to preserve international peace after World War I was called

A)the Concert of Westphalia.
B)the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
C)the United Nations.
D)the League of Nations.

Question 5

Which of the following was weakened most by modern nationalism?

A)Austria-Hungary
B)Germany
C)France
D)Italy

Question 6

The French Revolution undermined the principle of the divine right of Kings.

Question 7

Modern nationalism combined with industrialization led to

A)the emergence of the modern state system.
B)the French Revolution.
C)total war.
D)limited warfare.

Question 8

Which of the following was not a driving force for the emergence of the modern state system?

A)The industrial revolution
B)The protestant reformation
C)The commercial revolution
D)The gunpowder revolution

Question 9

Which of the following developments contributed to the conditions that produced World War I?

A)The Russian Revolution
B)Perestroika
C)The American Revolution
D)German unification

Question 10

The Peace of Westphalia

A)blamed Germany for World War I.
B)is associated with the principle of popular sovereignty.
C)undermined monarchism.
D)is associated with the principle of state sovereignty.

Question 11

The gunpowder revolution made previous modes of military defense less effective.

Question 12

The United States accounts for what percentage of global military expenditures?

A)Almost seventy percent
B)About forty percent
C)Less than twenty-five percent
D)About ten percent

Question 13

One of the reasons frequently cited for the "peace" of the Cold War is

A)the rough balance of power between the superpowers.
B)the absence of major conflicts of interest.
C)the United Nations.
D)the imbalance of power favoring the Soviet Union.

Question 14

The rise of modern nationalism

A)strengthened the power of monarchs.
B)marked the end of the modern state system.
C)coincided with the industrial revolution.
D)led to the breakup of Germany.

Question 15

The emergence of state sovereignty is usually traced to

A)the French Revolution.
B)industrialization.
C)the Peace of Westphalia.
D)the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 16

Glasnost

A)was the Soviet response to the U.S.policy of containment.
B)represented an attempt to open the Soviet system to greater political debate.
C)was the Russian term for the threat posed by unified Germany.
D)was an effort to revitalize the Soviet economy.

Question 17

During the Cold War, the United States

A)avoided involvement in post-colonial conflicts.
B)fought with the Soviet troops on several occasions.
C)did not care about communist expansion into strategically unimportant areas.
D)pursued a policy of containment.

Question 18

U.S.policy toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War was known as

A)alignment.
B)perestroika.
C)containment.
D)appeasement.

Question 19

Common people usually had a strong sense of loyalty and obligation to their absolutist monarchs.

Question 20

During World War II the United States

A)was aligned with Germany against the communist Soviet Union.
B)refrained from engaging in "trench warfare".
C)was aligned with the Soviet Union.
D)used the atomic bomb to defeat Germany.

Question 21

The western policy toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s came to be known as _____________.

Question 22

Soviet imposition of communist governments in ________________ in the years immediately following World War II was one of the critical developments leading to the Cold War.

Question 23

A _____________ war is one in which all segments of society are mobilized in some manner.

Question 24

The Peace/Treaty of Westphalia introduced the modern principle of _________________.

Question 25

The _____________________ placed all of the blame for World War I on Germany.

Question 26

The Truman Doctrine was an early statement of the policy of containment.

Question 27

The United States accounts for only about twenty-five percent of global military expenditures.

Question 28

In the nineteenth century, Europe's great multi-ethnic empires were undermined by the force of ____________________________.

Question 29

The French Revolution challenges the prevailing political order/system of _____________ __________________________.

Question 30

Throughout the Cold War, the United States resisted the Soviet policy containment.

Question 31

Austria-Hungary was a good example of what modern nationalism consider the ideal model of ethnic-political organization.

Question 32

The ___________________________ was the religious development that contributed to the emergence of the modern state system.

Question 33

The Concert of Europe agreed to give parts of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany.

Question 34

The unification of _______________________in the second half of the nineteenth century had a profound impact of the distribution of power in Europe.

Question 35

The Marshall Plan was part of the policy of containment.

Question 36

The __________________ marked the beginning of the rise of modern nationalism.

Question 37

_________________ reforms of perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union in the later half of the 1980s were designed to invigorate its stagnant economic and political system.

Question 38

In Europe _______________________ marked the emergence of total war.

Question 39

Gorbachev's policy of détente helped end the Cold War.

Question 40

The Treaty of Versailles limited the armed forces of all the major participants in World War I

Question 41

Explain the elements and origins of the modern state system.

Question 42

In what ways can World War II be seen as a consequence of the manner in which World War I was fought and concluded?

Question 43

Explain the larger and lasting significance of the French Revolution.

Question 44

In what sense was World War I the consequence of the modern nationalism and industrialization?

Question 45

When and why did the Cold War come to an end?