2013
International Relations
Final Exam Review
Chapter One: IR Book/ Terms & Concepts
1. Balance of Power System
2. Globalization
3. Sovereignty
4. Bipolar
5. Power
6. System
7. International Relations
8. Supranational
9. Multipolar
10. Superpower
Chapter 20: IR Book
11. How does international law differ from domestic law?
Executive Branch & Cabinet secretaries-Present Day and Pictures
12. President & Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense
13. How are the President’s cabinet secretaries chosen? Which group approves their
appointments?
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Foreign Policy Terms
14. Interventionism vs. non-interventionism
15. Idealism and self- interest in foreign policy
16. Pentagon
17. Chief of Staff
18. Role of Congress in creating F. Policy
19. National Security Council
20. Unilateralism
21. Types of Power
Economic
Diplomatic
Military
Examples of Foreign policy
U.S. Foreign Policy from 1945- 1990 - Cold War
Beginning of Cold War- 1945-1975
22. Which countries were fighting the Cold War?
23. Policy of Containment & George Kennan
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Causes of the Cold War in Europe: identify each.
24. What did the Soviet’s (Stalin) do in Eastern Europe that started the Cold
War?
25. What did the Soviet develop that escalated the Cold War?
26. Domino Theory
27. NATO/Warsaw Pact
28. Joseph Stalin
29. Arms Race/Space race
30. What are common characteristics of a communist government?
 What might they censorship over?
 Who controls the economy (means of production)?
 Religion in a communist country?
 Propaganda
 Travel out of Soviet Union?
New Cold War-1979-1990
Soviet Union & U.S. become enemies again! (Also applies to Terrorism Unit)
The invasion of the Afghanistan by the Soviet Union marks the beginning of the
New Cold War!
31. When did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan, starting the New Cold War?
32. Why did Osama Bin Laden go to Afghanistan in the 1980s? What did he do
during the Afghan Soviet War?
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33. Did any other countries or U.S. allies get involved in the Afghan Soviet War?
34. Which country won the Afghan- Soviet War?
35. What was the effect of the war on the Soviet Union?
36. Name & cost of the American CIA operation in support of the Afghan fighters?
37. Why did a Civil War break out after the end of the Soviet-Afghan War?
38. Describe the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan after they won the Civil War?
39. How and when did the rule of the Taliban end?
Terms
40. Soviet Vietnam
41. Forbidden Zone
Terrorism Unit
42. Oklahoma City bombing
43. Timothy McVeigh
44. Types of terrorism
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45. Osama Bin Laden
46. Most of the hijackers on 9/11 came from which Middle Eastern country?
47. Why did the U.S. invade Afghanistan in 2001?
48. Why did the U.S. invade Iraq in 2003?
49. When and why did the 1st Persian Gulf War begin?
Nuclear Weapons
50. Why did the U.S. develop and drop the atomic bomb at end of WWII?
51. Define nuclear proliferation
52. Define IAEA & main purpose
53. Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT)
54. Article V of the NPT Treaty
55. Which countries today possess nuclear weapons?
56. Which countries today are known but are unannounced possessor of nuclear
weapons?
57. Which countries are considered to be the Axis of Evil? Why?
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United Nations
58. Purpose of the U.N.
59. General Assembly: describe, # of countries, vote etc.
60. Security Council: permanent members vs. non-permanent, terms, veto power etc.
61. General Secretary: requirements, how elected & who is GS today
62. Location of U.N.
63. What are U.N. troops called and where troops come from?
64. There are no international police or international governments that make law. So
what is international law based on?
65. Who are the blue helmets? Where do the troops come from when a “mission” is
approved by the U.N.?
66. UN Peacekeeping is very difficult. What can be said about a peacekeepers
weapons and ability to use weapons?
67. Who were the Janjaweed in Sudan? How were they paid for their services?
World Leaders- images on test, countries and main events associated with leader
68. Kim Jong IL
69. Deng Xiaoping
70. President Amadinejad
71. Joseph Stalin
72. Fidel Castro
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73. Saddam Hussein
74. Mikhail Gorbachev
75. Osama Bin Laden
76. Hu Jintao
77. U.S. President & V.P. (present)
78. U.S. Secretary of State & Defense (present)
Middle East
79. Which countries in the M.E. are monarchies?
80. Which countries is a theocracy?
81. Which countries are democracies?
82. Which type of government is the most common in the M.E.?
83. Which predominantly Muslim country in the M.E. is secular democracy and has
outlawed “religious clothing”?
84. What are the four main ethnic groups in the M.E.? Which is the most common?
85. What religions exist? Which is most common?
86. In the Middle East, are most Muslims Sunni or Shiite?
87. What are the two “most conservative” countries in the M.E. today?
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Rise of China as a superpower
88. Type of government today?
89. Type of economic system today?
90. Who is the leader of China today?
91. Which leader made economic reforms in China?
92. Why China is called the “Workshop of the World”?
Rise of India as a world power
93. When was India partitioned? What new country was established by the partition?
94. What type of government does India have today?
95. When and what is India’s “New Liberalization Plan”?
Arab Spring/ Arab Revolutions
96. When and where did the Arab Spring uprising start?
97. What are the two main reasons for all of the revolutions/uprisings in the Middle
East?
98. Who was the Egyptian President that was ousted?
99. Who was the Libyan President that was ousted?
100.
Who was the Tunisian President that was ousted?
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101.
Which revolution turned into an on-going Civil War?
102.
In which country, did the Security Council of the UN intervene and
establish a no-fly zone?
Four Maps on the Final Exam
Africa
Middle East
South Asia
Africa
Ten questions on foreign policy & U.S. President. Review in class together.
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