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Causes of War: WWI
Causes of War: WWII
The Cold War
Globalization I
Globalization II
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Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and France
What were the five "Great Powers" in the Concert of Europe?
100
September 1, 1939
What is the date that Germany invaded Poland and effectively began WWII?
100
This is the theory that the proliferation of nuclear weapons will lead to peace between states.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
100
Globalization occurs in many different arenas. These are the major economic elements of recent (post-WWs) globalization.
What is are free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets?
100
This is the theory from which the WTO eventually emerged.
What is the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
200
This 1648 treaty is credited with creating the idea of the modern, sovereign nation-state.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
200
This conference (also say the year) convened Stalin, FDR, and Churchill to discuss post-WWII Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
200
This document outlined the foreign policy strategy of containment. (Also, define containment)
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
Economic liberalism is an international application of this famous theorist's domestic economic theory.
Who is Adam Smith?
200
This is a government strategy that involves actions and policies that restrict or restrain international trade, often done with the intent of protecting local businesses and jobs from foreign competition.
What is protectionism?
300
In 1919, the Allied Powers of WWI came together and established these rules in the Treaty of Versailles.
What are: 1) Germany's will disband its army; 2) Germany will pay the entire cost of war reparations, amounting to millions of dollars; 3) Germany's colonial holdings will be divided among the Allies; 4) Germany had to accept total blame for the war.
300
This was the last conference of the "Big Three" allies, convened to determine the fate of Germany.
What was the Potsdam Conference in July of 1945?
300
This French word signifies a thawing of tension between the U.S. and USSR under Nixon.
What is detente?
300
This term indicates one country's ability to produce a good or service more efficiently and inexpensively than another.
What is comparative advantage?
300
These are types of protectionist policies (name 2).
What are: tariffs, quotas, import bans, other types of domestic regulations (i.e. labeling GMO fruit)?
400
This military paradigm incentivizes states to initiate attacks on potential threats, due to a collective perception that the defensive position is disadvantageous.
What is the cult of the offensive?
400
This was a line of new states created in Eastern Europe to act as buffers against the spread of communism from Russia to the rest of Europe.
What was the Cordon Sanitaire?
400
This major crisis tested nuclear stability theories and shifted the foreign policy strategies of both the U.S. and USSR.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
This is the argument that increases in the wealth of richer nations comes at the expense of the poorer ones. (Be sure to name the theory it comes from)
What is Marxist dependency theory?
400
The economic strategy of import substitution.
What is a policy that advocates replacing foreign imports with domestic production to reduce its foreign dependency?
500
This is one argument for why the League of Nations was unsuccessful.
What are (name one) lack of incentives to uphold the League for Britain and France; lack of U.S. participation; absence of powerful state member to enforce its rules?
500
Indicative of the politics of multipolarity, this is a major reason why Hitler was able to repudiate the Treaty of Versailles.
What was Hitler's divide-and-conquer strategy prior to WWII? (iBritain and France had a weak alliance and didn't join forces against Hitler; Chamberlain's strategy of "appeasement")
500
These are important characteristics of the international system during the Long Peace (name two).
What are: 1) mutually assured destruction; 2) bipolarity; 3) globalization of conflict; 4) 40 years of stability (no major wars between great powers); 5) destruction caused by the world wars; 6) economic independence of superpowers; 7) behavioral elements of state leaders ("rules of the game")?
500
Thomas Friedman argues that because of globalization, "the world is flat." These are pieces of evidence for and against this argument (state one for and one against).
What is (for): goods and services traded all over the world; multinational corporations; the Internet and (against): -he effect of globalization is exaggerated (most is local); leaves out a lot of the world; barriers?
500
Unlike Marxism, which argued that eventually the majority would revolt against capitalism in industrialized nations, Lenin argued this.
What is the argument that the revolution would occur in less developed countries against more developed countries?