QUIZ 2

Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev implemented two domestic reforms: glasnost and perestroika. Glasnost refers to

political openness

The idea behind the balance of power is that

states are less likely to go to war when their power is relatively symmetrical to that of their adversaries.

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990,

the Soviet Union/Russia supported a military UN mission to remove Iraq from Kuwait.

Which of the following was the military alliance that bound states with the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

the Warsaw Pact

The idea that communist influence would spread from one state to another if not contained was called which of the following?

the domino effect

The idea that the economic market will work effortlessly and efficiently when individuals pursue their rational self-interest is referred to as __________ at work.

the invisible hand

The Treaties of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years War (1618-48). Which of the following resulted from this experience?

the notion of sovereignty

The Concert of Europe refers to what period in history when no major wars among great powers occurred?

the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the Crimean War

What does the period immediately following the Treaties of Westphalia represent to the study of international relations?

the rise of secular authority

Following the Napoleonic Wars, which of the following political changes occurred?

Italy was unified.

In the balance of power in Europe following the Napoleonic war, which state played the role of "builder of alliances"?

Russia

The League of Nations was designed to prevent all future wars. Why was this intergovernmental organization unable to prevent World War II?

The League of Nations lacked political weight, legal instruments, and legitimacy.

During which time period did colonialism meet its demise?

after World War II

After the Thirty Years War, a group of states emerged in both the East and West. The West relied on __________, while the East resorted to __________.

capitalism, feudalism

In the nineteenth century, under the balance-of-power system, states formed alliances on what basis?

counteracting powerful factions

The lessening of tensions between the United States and Soviet Union beginning in the late 1960s is called

détente.

The Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)

increased tensions between Britain and Germany because the Boers had purchased weapons from Germany.

The settling of people from a home country among indigenous peoples of a distant territory is known as

colonialism

During the Cold War, the United States pursued the strategy of __________ vis-à-vis the Soviet Union.

containment

One idea that emerged after the American and French Revolutions was that

government legitimacy comes from the consent of the governed.

One leading explanation of why the Cold War stayed cold and became the long peace is because

nuclear deterrence made neither side willing to start a war.

The authority of a state to govern matters within its own borders free from external interference is known as

sovereignty

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were organized and funded by

Al Qaeda

In the early 1900s, __________, a non-European power, defeated Russia, a European power in a war.

Japan

How did Russia and China's Marxist revolutions differ?

China saw the revolution coming from the rural peasantry.