Exam 3: World War I: World on Fire

The ______ preserved peace among the great powers throughout the nineteenth century by creating a more multilateral and open system for settling disputes.

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

According to the identity perspective, ______ nationalism focused on cultural and racial differences and advocated an aggressive, heroic approach to international relations.

______ was a worldview that applied the concept of "survival of the fittest" to competition among people, societies, nations, and races.

An argument from the power transition school of realist theory may stress the decline of which hegemon in the early twentieth century as making World War I possible?

______ called for a German attack on France first, by way of Belgium (bringing Great Britain into the war), followed by an attack on Russia.

According to the realist perspective, what type of war did the encirclement of Germany lead Germany to consider?

What term refers to 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 identity perspective, ______ focused on cultural and racial differences and advocated an aggressive, heroic approach to international relations.

According to the ______ school of realism, the loss of hegemony threatens stability because the country in decline seeks to preserve the status quo and remain the hegemon.

World War I began when ______.

What is Social Darwinism?

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

According to an argument from the liberal perspective, what caused both the naval competition between Germany and Great Britain and the military provocation of France and Russia?

Which two great powers confronted each other (although without going to war) during the Bosnian Crisis of 1908 and the two Balkan Wars in 1912-1913 and 1913?

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?

According to the liberal perspective, diplomacy failed to prevent war in 1914 in part because Germany mistakenly expected Great Britain to remain neutral.

The Zollverein was a military alliance system led by Germany.

According to the realist perspective, which of the following developments most contributed to the insecurity of European states before World War I?

The argument that power politics among German landowners, industrialists, and the military drove German aggression operates at the ______ level of analysis.