POLS 121 MIDTERM EXAM 2024/2025 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
Two principles that rose out of the American and French Revolutions and provided
the foundation for politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are
legitimacy from the consent of the governed and nationalism.
Which factor contributed to the absence of major war on the continent under the
Concert of Europe?
Colonialism allowed states to expand their territories abroad.
The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I
rendered Germany a dissatisfied power.
The authority of a state to govern matters within its own borders free from external
interference is known as
sovereignty
,POLS 121 MIDTERM EXAM 2024/2025
The League of Nations was an international organization that was
not joined by the United States
Why is 1648, marked by the creation of the Treaties of Westphalia, a seminal year
for scholars of international relations?
It marked a decrease of religious authority in Europe and the rise of secular
authority in the form of sovereign states.
Before 1453, the city of Istanbul was known as
Constantinople
In an exchange between Athens and Melos, as told by Greek historian Thucydides
in the book The Peloponnesian War,
the Athenian aim to persuade the Melians to surrender to them without the use of
Athenian force
Being sovereign means that states
are granted legal jurisdiction in their territory
, POLS 121 MIDTERM EXAM 2024/2025
1. Lead to the establishment of Iraq
2.Lead to the establishment of Transjordan
The San Remo Conference in 1920
Which treaty created the Republic of Turkey?
The Treaty of Lausanne
Who issued the Balfour Declaration?
The British Cabinet
Scottish economist Adam Smith posits that the public economic interest is best
served when markets are allowed self-regulate
True
All of the following factors contributed to Napoleonic France's military victories,
EXCEPT
a. The French army used guerrilla tactics.
b. Napoleon was a master tactician.
c. Napoleon's organized his forces in an effective way.
d. Napoleon had an elite army.
The French army used guerrilla tactics.
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