Exam 1: Change and Continuity in International History

Common people usually had a strong sense of loyalty and obligation to their absolutist monarchs.

In Europe _______________________ marked the emergence of total war.

The French Revolution challenges the prevailing political order/system of _____________ __________________________.

The _____________________ placed all of the blame for World War I on Germany.

In what sense was World War I the consequence of the modern nationalism and industrialization?

Soviet imposition of communist governments in ________________ in the years immediately following World War II was one of the critical developments leading to the Cold War.

The Great Depression contributed to the outbreak of World War I.

Throughout the Cold War, the United States resisted the Soviet policy containment.

The United States accounts for only about twenty-five percent of global military expenditures.

The rise of modern nationalism

The organization created to preserve international peace after World War I was called

Explain the larger and lasting significance of the French Revolution.

_________________ reforms of perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union in the later half of the 1980s were designed to invigorate its stagnant economic and political system.

The emergence of state sovereignty is usually traced to

The Peace of Westphalia

Which of the following developments contributed to the conditions that produced World War I?

A _____________ war is one in which all segments of society are mobilized in some manner.

U.S.policy toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War was known as

In what ways can World War II be seen as a consequence of the manner in which World War I was fought and concluded?

Which of the following was weakened most by modern nationalism?