What does International Relations study?
Interactions among states and other actors and their consequences for domestic populations.
What creates the international state system?
Interactions among all states in the world.
Who are the actors involved in international relations?
States, multinational corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and multilateral institutions.
What issues does international relations study?
International relations studies issues like peace, war, imperialism, nationalism, and more.
Which issues in IR involve economic disparities?
Unequal wealth and poverty are economic issues studied in international relations.
What distinguishes moral from theoretical disagreements in IR?
Moral disagreements concern policies and cannot be resolved by facts, unlike theoretical ones.
When was the Department of International Politics at University of Wales established?
In 1919.
What does the foundation-myth account say about International Relations' creation?
It was created after the First World War to identify war causes and prevent future wars.
Which journal first published in 1910 became Foreign Affairs?
The Journal of Race Development.
What defines an international order?
Regularized practices of exchange between political units.
In which year was the Peace of Westphalia signed?
1648
Why is the Peace of Westphalia significant in International Relations?
It is considered the foundational date of the modern international order.
What is a key debate about globalization's impact on state power?
Some scholars argue globalization erodes state power.
How do some scholars view states in a globalized international order?
As continuing central actors in an interdependent international order.
How did the nineteenth century transform international relations?
Through revolutions, imperial expansion, transnational corporations, permanent institutions, instantaneous communication, and standardized world time.
When did the French and Haitian Revolutions begin?
Between 1789 and 1791.
What political ideas did the Atlantic wave of revolutions introduce?
Republicanism and popular sovereignty.
What social practice did the Atlantic revolutions challenge?
Slavery.
When was the International Telecommunications Union founded?
In 1865.
What was the significance of the International Telecommunications Union?
It was the first standing intergovernmental organization.
When did Japan defeat Russia in the Russo-Japanese War?
In 1905.
What was Japan's status after defeating Russia in 1905?
The first non-Western, non-white Great Power.
Where did the First World War begin?
Among European states.
Why is the First World War called the first modern industrialized total war?
Because belligerents mobilized populations, economies, and armies.
How did the First World War spread beyond Europe?
It spread globally.
How did the Second World War compare to the First in totality and scope?
It was more total in nature and global in scope.
What major effect did the Second World War have on world politics?
It fundamentally changed world politics.
When was the armistice that led to the Treaty of Versailles signed?
On 11 November 1918.
What punishments did the Treaty of Versailles impose on Germany?
Territorial losses, military disarmament, and financial and economic punishment.
What was the reparations amount set by the Treaty of Versailles?
£6600 million.
What did Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points promote?
Open diplomacy, free trade, reduced armaments, self-determination, territorial adjustments, and a League of Nations.
What did the Treaty of Versailles establish regarding the League of Nations?
A covenant establishing the League of Nations.
When did the League of Nations hold its first council meeting?
On 16 January 1920.
What were League members required to respect and reject?
Respect territorial integrity and sovereignty; reject use or threat of military force.
Why did the League of Nations fail to prevent the Second World War?
It lacked enforcement mechanisms and many countries did not join.
What was the Great Depression?
A severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939.
When did the Wall Street stock market crash occur?
In October 1929.
What effect did the Great Depression have on U.S. foreign policy?
It pushed the U.S. further into post-First World War isolationism.
What did Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt prioritize during the Great Depression?
Economic recovery, unemployment, and domestic social dislocation.
What happened on 30 September 1938 regarding Czechoslovakia?
Britain and France accepted Germany's demand that Czechoslovakia cede the Sudetenland.
When did Germany seize all of Czechoslovakia and invade Poland?
Seized Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939 and invaded Poland on 1 September 1939.
What is the policy of Appeasement?
Reducing tensions by removing causes of conflict through concessions.
How did Neville Chamberlain describe the 1938 Munich Agreement?
As bringing “peace for our time.”
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