Exam Review: Practice Quiz 2

On the eve of the outbreak of WWI Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tzar Nicholas of Russia exchanged telegrams expressing ____________ . In the end, it was ___________ that led them to believe it was too late to turn back from war with each other.

A shared desire to find a way to avoid war; their generals

Which of the following was a type of new military weapon first used in WWI?

All of these were first used in WWI

The sovereign state system created by the Treaty of Westphalia established all of the following except ___________.

Catholicism was decreed the one true religion

In multinational empires in the nineteenth century, nationalism _____________.

Created pressure to break larger states into smaller more homogeneous states

The Berlin Wall was built by _________.

East Germany

After the Cold War, nationalism led to the break-up into smaller states of which of the following three countries in Europe?

Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia

The German military was the first to use _________ to bomb civilian residential areas of cities. This willingness to use any means necessary to gain victory came to be referred to as _________.

Zeppelins; Total War

The U.S. and other mostly Western European states created NATO in 1949 to oppose and deter Soviet power in Europe. Since the Cold War ended in 1990, NATO is _________.

Needed to oppose and deter Russia as well as Al-queda, ISIS and other terrorist groups

Following the Treaty of Westphalia, the main actors in the international system were

Nation-states

An important consequence of the combination of European imperialism in Africa and Asia and a balance of power in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was that ________.

European state rivalries played out in the colonization of Africa and Asia

Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Europe's five major powers________________________.

Experienced a period of relative peace in the international political system

Russia's participation in WWI was cut short by ________

The Russian Revolution which removed the Tzar and his government and replaced it with a Communist government led by Lenin

The Marshall Plan was a policy or organization designed to fight the influence of ______________.

The Soviet Union

Who instituted the Marshall Plan and who benefited directly from it?

The United States instituted the Marshall Plan to benefit areas ravaged by WWII

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

The rough balance of power between the superpowers

What did Jean Bodin mean when he argued that sovereignty was perpetual?

The state would remain sovereign even if a particular leader died or was removed from power

Why was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed?

To provide peacetime collective security for the United States and Western Europe

The United States entered World War I ________.

Toward the end of the conflict