World War 1 Test 1 Study Guide

Germany's domestic ability to convert resources into power affects the balance of power at which level of analysis?

The systemic structural level

During which year do many scholars estimate German power to have peaked?

1905

On what date did Austria-Hungary declare war on Serbia?

28-Jul-14

The Concert of Europe, created in the early 1800s, was primarily ________.

A multilateral and open system for settling disputes

Austria-Hungary considered Germany responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and declared war on July 28, 1914.

FALSE

From the realist perspective at the systemic level of analysis, alliances tend to develop in a domino, rather than a checkerboard, pattern.

FALSE

The iron-rye coalition was a liberal coalition that ran the German government consisting of agricultural, industrial, and socialist leaders.

FALSE

In an attempt to counterbalance Germany, Great Britain signed the Entente Cordiale with which country?

France

On the eve of World War I, all of the following monarchies EXCEPT which state suffered from domestic cleavages and failing institutions?

France

What does it mean when someone argues that "geopolitics is a necessary but not sufficient explanation for war"?

Geopolitics explains why war is possible, but more specific factors (from other perspectives and levels of analysis) explain why a particular war begins.

Schlieffen Plan

Germany's mobilization plan that called for an attack on France first, by way of Belgium, followed by an attack on Russia.

According to the realist perspective, the encirclement of Germany and the confrontation between the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente may have been unavoidable because of which of the following factors?

Germany's position in the center of Europe

Who wrote Idea for a Universal History and Perpetual Peace and argued that democracy would spread and lead to a federation of peaceful states?

Immanuel Kant

Which country joined Germany and Austria-Hungary in the Triple Alliance in 1882?

Italy

The iron-rye coalition that ran the German government gets its name from what two elite groups?

Landed agricultural interests and industrial leaders

What is the focus of liberal nationalism?

Political ideologies and wider participation in the rule of law in both domestic and international politics

According to the realist perspective, the potential growth of Russian power led Germany to consider what type of war?

Preventive war

Despite having less than half its population, Germany massively outproduced which country across the range of military equipment during World War I?

Russia

That the unification of Germany in 1871 as a central power threatened neighboring countries that then allied against Germany, which in turn made Germany feel even more threatened, is an example of which concept?

Security dilemma

Before World War I, nationalism took militant, liberal, and socialist forms.

TRUE

Liberal nationalism capitalized on the trend toward increased individual freedom, fundamental human rights, and the rule of law, and emphasized the participation of all members of society in political life.

TRUE

Many scholars estimate that German power reached its peak around 1905, but it did not engage in war until 1914 because it was still developing its naval capabilities.

TRUE

While the "shadow of the future" encourages cooperation in iterative game theory, if players come to believe that they are facing the last move, they face a static prisoner's dilemma and no choice but to defect.

TRUE

After its defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, Russia aligned with Great Britain and France through which alliance?

The Triple Entente

What was the Zollverein, and how did it contribute to the rise of German power?

The Zollverein was a customs union among German states developed in the 1830s that lowered barriers to trade and ignited rapid industrial development.

Which of the following incidents, which took place on June 28, 1914, directly triggered World War I?

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

The argument that Germany was able to survive (while Poland was not) because Germany could convert wealth into military power (and Poland could not) is an argument from which level of analysis?

The domestic level of analysis

Arguing that German policymakers used diplomacy to provoke Russian mobilization and to bring about a war that would unite domestic groups is an example of an argument from which level of analysis?

The foreign policy level of analysis

Which of the following perspectives would stress the religious aspects of the Holy Alliance?

The identity perspective

The liberal argument that World War I occurred because interactions among the great powers broke down highlights the importance of which concept from game theory?

The last move

In which situation would a country consider launching a preemptive war against another country?

When it perceives that the other country is preparing to attack it first

Cult of the offensive

a belief in the advantage of using military power offensively.

Zollverein

a customs union created by Prussia involving other German states that lowered barriers to trade and ignited rapid industrial development beginning in the 1830s.

Iron-rye coalition

a domestic coalition of military and agricultural interests that dominated German politics before World War I.

Militant nationalism

a form of nineteenth-century nationalism that focused on cultural and racial differences and advocated an aggressive, heroic approach to international relations.

Liberal nationalism

a form of nineteenth-century nationalism that focused on political ideologies and called for wider participation and the rule of law in both domestic and international politics.

Socialist nationalism

a form of nineteenth-century nationalism that sought greater economic equality and social justice, especially in class and colonial relationships.

Social Darwinism

a nineteenth-century worldview that saw a struggle among nations for survival of the fittest.

Preventive war

a war by one country against another that is not preparing to attack the first country but is growing in power and may attack in the future.

Entente Cordiale

an agreement signed in 1904 between Great Britain and France that settled colonial disputes between them and ended a century of British isolation from conflicts on the continent.

Triple Entente

an agreement signed in 1907 in which Great Britain and France expanded the Entente Cordiale to include Russia.

Triple Alliance

an alliance formed first between Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1879, then joined by Italy in 1882, that accounted for 50 percent of all European wealth in the early twentieth century.

Preemptive war

an attack by one country against another because the second country is preparing to attack the first.