PHINMA-ARAULLO UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

FINAL EXAMINATION

1. It is the right of a political community to become a sovereign state.

a. Non-discrimination c. External sovereignty
b. Self-determination d. National security
2. It was the most famous Greek city-states.
a. Sparta c. Melos
b. Corinth d. Athens
3. Italian international society was based on _____________.
a. Stato c. Hellenic culture
b. Polis d. Political vice
4. It is the war to end all wars.
a. World War II c. Cold War
b. World War I d. Proxy War
5. He was the founder of Fascism.
a. Benito Mussolini c. Adolf Hitler
b. Joseph Stalin d. Vladimir Lenin
6. It is the war that ended all wars.
a. The Great War c. World War II
b. Cold War d. Vietnam War
7. It was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western
Bloc (the United States with NATO and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet
Union and its allies in Warsaw Pact)
a. World War I c. World War II
b. Cold War d. World War Z
8. He was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II.
a. Winston Churchill c. Benito Mussolini
b. Joseph Stalin d. Charles de Gaulle
9. It was formally, the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, and was a
collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in
existence during the Cold War, led by the USSR.
a. NATO c. League of Nations
b. SEATO d. Warsaw Pact
10. It was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of
Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
a. Little Prince c. Fat Boy
b. Little Boy d. Big Bird
11. He was founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and
architect and first head of the Soviet state.
a. Joseph Stalin c. Mikhail Gorbachev
b. Karl Marx d. Vladimir Lenin
12. It is a situation in which active armed conflict has been brought to an end, but no peace
treaty or other political framework resolves the conflict to the satisfaction of the
combatants.
a. Proxy War c. Cool off
b. Ceasefire d. Frozen Conflict
13. It was the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev
in the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s.
a. Glasnost c. Marshall Plan
b. Perestroika d. Operation Barbarossa
14. He led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958
to 1964.
a. Nikita Khrushchev c. Mikhail Gorbachev
b. Vladimir Putin d. Joseph Stalin
15. French Prime Minister from 1917-1920. He was known as the Tiger was a key figure
in holding French resolve to fight for total victory, when others considered negotiating a
treaty with Germany. He took a harsh position against Germany at the Treaty of Versailles.
a. Georges Clemenceau c. Winston Churchill
b. David Lloyd George d. Lord Kitchener
16. It was the codename for the type of atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese
city of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945.
a. Sexy Lady c. Fat Man
b. Fat Boy d. Little Boy
17. It was a Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer
dissemination of news and information
a. Freedom of Expression c. Glasnost
b. Democratization d. Perestroika
18. It was the policy, pursued in most Communist areas and among most Communist
groups after 1956, of eradicating the memory or influence of Stalin and Stalinism, as by
alteration of governmental policies or the elimination of monuments, place names, etc.,
named for Stalin.
a. Democratization c. Re-Stalinization
b. De-Stalinization d. Stalinization
19. He was a Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and
his wife.
a. Ataturk c. Gavrilo Princip
b. V. Lenin d. Joseph Stalin
20. It was the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate
areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
a. Iron Wall c. German Blocade
b. Berlin Wall d. Iron Curtain
21. He was Prime Minister of the UK from 1916 to the end of war.
a. Winston Churchill c. Kaiser Wilhelm II
b. David Lloyd George d. Woodrow Wilson
22. It was the defining symbol of the Cold War.
a. Nuclear Weapon c. Eastern Bloc
b. Berlin Wall d. Iron Curtain
23. It has been used for many different operations, but it is now generally only used to
refer to the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944.
a. Normandy Attack c. D-Day
b. H-hour d. Allied Victory
24. It is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in early 20th-
century Europe
a. Fascism c. Nazism
b. Leninism d. Stalinism
25. It is a system of government in which all the people of a state or polity ... are involved in
making decisions about its affairs, typically by voting to elect representatives to a
parliament.
a. Liberalism c. Socialism
b. Nationalism d. Democracy
26. It was known as the European Recovery Program.
a. Truman Doctrine c. NATO
b. Marshall Plan d. Warsaw Pact
27. It was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph
Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was
winding down.
a. Yalta Conference c. Versailles Peace Conference
b. Potsdam Conference d. Operation Barbarossa
28. It was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war
between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years
after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
a. Paris Peace Conference c. Reparation Treaty
b. Treaty of Versailles d. Berlin Peace Conference
29. It was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War.
a. Marshall Plan c. Potsdam Conference
b. NATO d. Truman Doctrine
30. The Big ThreeSoviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
(replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman
met in from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
a. Potsdam Conference c. Treaty of Paris
b. Treaty of Versailles d. Yalta Conference
31. He was the last leader of the Soviet Communist Party who initiated changes known as
'perestroika' and glasnost, which melted the rigid Soviet system and liberated 15 republics
of the Soviet Union to become independent states, thus ending the existence of the USSR in
December 1991.
a. Vladimir Putin c. Mikhail Gorbachev
b. Vladimir Lenin d. Nikita Khrushchev
32. It was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by
the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in
Manila, Philippines.
a. ASEAN c. Asia Pacific Treaty
b. Treaty of Paris d. SEATO
33. It is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A
replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24
October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict.
a. United Nations c. NATO
b. European Union d. Warsaw Pact
34. It was established at the end of the Korean War to serve as a buffer zone between North
and South Korea.
a. Korean Wall c. South and North Demilitarized Zone
b. Korean Demilitarized Zone d. De Facto Border Barrier
35. BONUS
36. It is a conflict between two nations where neither country directly engages the other.
a. Proxy War c. Frozen Conflict
b. Cold War d. Civil War
37. It was the opposition of Triple Entente during WWII.
a. Allied Power c. Triple Alliance
b. Axis Power d. Central Power
38. The Great war was commenced on _________________.
a. July 28, 1914 c. September 1, 1939
b. September 2, 1945 d. November 11, 1918
39. World War II lasted for ______________.
a. 6 years and 2 days c. 6 years
b. 6 years and 1 day d. 6 years and 3 days
40. He was at the centre of World War II in Europe and the Holocaust.
a. Benito Mussolini c. Joseph Stalin
b. Karl Marx d. Adolf Hitler
41. Cold war happened between _______________.
a. 1946 - 1991 c. 1947 - 1991
b. 1945 - 1991 d. 1948 - 1991
42. It was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States
naval base.
a. Operation Barbarossa c. Korean-Japanese War
b. World War II d. Pearl Harbor Attack
43. It was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-
Persian Wars.
a. Athens c. Corinth
b. Melos d. Sparta
44. It is the political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over
others.
a. Imperialism c. Self-determinations
b. Hegemony d. Theocracy
45. It is the core value of international society.
a. Political Independence c. Right of Self-defence
b. State Sovereignty d. National Security
46. It is the fundamental value in the foreign policy of states.
a. Political Independence c. Diplomacy
b. State Sovereignty d. National Security
47. It is a unilateral political act with domestic and international legal consequences,
whereby a state acknowledges an act or status of another state or government in control of
a state.
a. Recognition c. Diplomacy
b. Reciporicty d. Coexistence
48. It is the principle, which states that favors, benefits, or penalties that are granted by one
state to the citizens or legal entities of another, should be returned in kind.
a. Reciprocity c. Recognition
b. Diplomacy d. Laws of War
49. It is also known as the Second Indochina War.
a. Vietnam War c. Resistance War Against Vietnam
b. Korean War d. Civil War
50. It is s the set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between
states and between nations. It serves as a framework for the practice of stable and
organized international relations.
a. Treaty c. International Law
b. Agreement d. Global Covenant
51. He an Italian writer, philosopher, and politician and was the author of The Prince.
a. Martin Luther King c. Edward Keene
b. Francesco Guicciardini d. Niccolo Machiavelli
52. It refers to the systematic murder of more than six million Jews orchestrated by Adolph
Hitler and the National Socialist/Nazi.
a. Nazism c. Holocaust
b. Stalinization d. Genocide
53. Vietnamese Communist leader and the principal force behind the Vietnamese struggle
against French colonial rule and considered as the National Hero of Vietnam.
a. Saigon c. Bao Dai
b. Ho Chi Minh d. Kim Il Sung
54. Ancient Greece was known as ____________.
a. Greek c. Hellen
b. Greco d. Hellas
55. It is the restoration of friendly relations among states.
a. Reconciliation c. Alliance
b. Coalition d. Convention
56. It is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend
aggressive actions.
a. Reconciliation c. Diplomacy
b. Truce d. Frozen Conflict
57. It is the agreement between two or more states.
a. Arbitration c. Treaty
b. Neutrality d. Convention
58. In international relations, it is the fifth element of the state.
a. Territory c. Government
b. People d. Recognition
59. It was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created
after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
a. United Nations c. League of Nations
b. Treaty of Versailles d. NATO
60. It is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of states.
a. Reconciliation c. Peace
b. Recognition d. Diplomacy
61. It is a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between states.
a. Alliance c. Treaty
b. Coalition d. Coexistence
62. It is a temporary pact or treaty among states, during which they cooperate in joint
action, each in their own self-interest, joining forces together for a common cause.
a. Alliance c. Treaty
b. Coalition d. Convention
63. It is a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups
within a nation or state.
a. Neutrality c. Conflict
b. War d. Disability
64. He signed the letter to Franklin Roosevelt recommending that the atomic bombs be
made.
a. Leo Szilard c. Dwight Eisenhower
b. Harry Truman d. Albert Einstein
65. Western Bloc was also known as ____________.
a. Socialist Bloc c. NATO
b. Capitalist Bloc d. Warsaw Pact
66. American President who led America through WWI.
a. Harry Truman c. Franklin D. Roosevelt
b. Dwight Eisenhower d. Woodrow Wilson
67. American President who promoted Atoms for Peace at the United Nations General
Assembly in order to ease Cold War tensions.
a. Harry Truman c. Franklin D. Roosevelt
b. Dwight Eisenhower d. Woodrow Wilson.
68. WWII began when Germany invaded
a. Russia c. Poland
b. Austria d. France

69. A conference at the end of WWI was held at

a. Yalta c. Potsdam
b. London d. Vienna
70. It is an economic system in which exchange of wealth is made and maintained by
private individuals or corporations which the wealth of a nation
a. Monopoly c. Socialism
b. Capitalism d. Mixed Economic System
71. Fascists wanted
a. an emperor c. a free state
b. the people to rule the country d. more government control
72. During the Holocaust the Nazis killed millions of
a. Gypsies c. Muslims
b. Christians d. Jews
73. Toward the end of WWII the Russians got their supplies from
a. Germany c. France
b. America and Great Britain d. Japan
74. The German invasion of the Soviet Union was stopped by
a. the harsh Russian winter c. the end of the war
b. the atomic bomb d. an agreement between the Soviet
Union and Germany.
75. Hitler invaded the Soviet Union because
a. he wanted control of the countrys oil and c. he wanted control of Moscow
wheat fields
b. he wanted more land for the Germans to live d. he wanted to take revenge because
on the Russians defeated Germany in WWI
76. Hitler gave up his plan of invading Great Britain because
a. the British were supported by Americans c. Britain was too far away from
Germany
b. the Germans did not have enough Pilots d. he could not defeat the British air
force
77. After Germany's surrender Winston Churchill
a. led the Nuremberg war trials c. became a leading general
b. became president of the newly d. lost his job as Prime Minister
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78. It was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over
Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba.
a. September Crisis c. Jupiter Crisis
b. Caribbean Crisis d. Missile Massacre Crisis
79. When the Russians blockaded Berlin
a. the Allies flew in food and other supplies c. the Americans bombed the Soviet
Union
b. Germans had to leave the city d. the people bought food from the
Russians

80. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour:

a. the Americans had planes waiting for them c. the Americans were completely
surprised
b. the American dropped an atomic bomb over d. the American President was killed
Hiroshima