Introduction to IR - Quiz 1

When JFK gave his speech in 1963, East Berlin was governed by the USSR, while West Berlin was governed by

• France, England and Italy

• UK, US and West Germany

• France, UK and the US

• The US

An academic discipline is a structured field of knowledge and learning, characterized by:

• a shared object of study

• a body of accumulated theories and methods

• a community of scholars who develop, transmit and critique knowledge

• all of the above

International relations and international politics are the same thing

• True

• False

Social Science is different from other academic subjects because

• It is not real science

• It is linear science

• It is non-linear science

• None of the above

Domestic politics always have an impact on International Relations

• True

• False

• It depends

The US has over 750 military bases in foreign countries. The two states with the largest amount of US bases are:

• South Korea and Cuba

• Germany and South Korea

• Japan and Germany

• Australia and the UK

The 1939 Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement between Nazi Germany and the USSR consisted of:

• A military alliance to fight the UK and France

• A non-aggression pact and the partition of Poland

• The declaration of war against each other

• None of the above

Following the 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of the States, the state, as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications:

• a government

• a defined territory

• a permanent alliance with the US

• a permanent population

• capacity to enter into relations with the other states

War is defined as:

• An armed conflict

• Organized violence between two or more political entities

• Organized conflict between two states

• Organized violence between two or more states

Which one is considered the first ever televised war?

• Korean War

• WW2

• Iraq War

• Vietnam War