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1. When women won the right to vote after World War I,

    a. they voted for peace and against war.

    b. they established a newsletter, Sisterly Voices, in order to express their views on elections.

    c. they generally voted like their husbands.

    d. they changed the nature of foreign policy with their votes.

    e. they were able to change foreign policies in newly independent countries in the global South.

2. The value states place on home territory

    a. has declined with the development of technology and trade as bases of wealth.

    b. is equivalent to that of colonies.

    c. is far beyond any economic or strategic value it holds.

    d. is low enough that states will often exchange territory for money or other considerations.

    e. is directly proportional to the contribution of agriculture to the state's GDP.

3. A nation is a

    a. territorial entity controlled by a government and inhabited by a population.

    b. group of people who share characteristics such as language and culture.

    c. set of relationships among the world's states.

    d. middle step between being a colony and being an independent state.

    e. member of the United Nations.

4. Most alliances

    a. are formalized in written treaties.

    b. concern military and economic issues.

    c. exist for one issue at one time.

    d. are often broken without consequences.

    e. benefit great powers more than small states.

5. _____ is defined as a difference in preferred outcomes in a bargaining situation.

    a. War

    b. Conflict

    c. Violence

    d. Leverage

    e. Ideology

6. A state's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is recognized to extend how far from the coastline?

    a. Three miles

    b. 10 miles

    c. 12 miles

    d. 100 miles

    e. 200 miles

7. The sequence of steps in the rational model of decision making is

    a. clarify goals, order goals by importance, list alternatives to achieve goals, investigate consequences of alternatives, and choose the course of action.

    b. order goals by importance, list alternatives to achieve goals, clarify goals, investigate consequences of alternatives, and choose the course of action.

    c. list alternatives to achieve goals, order goals by importance, investigate consequences of alternatives, clarify goals, and choose the course of action.

    d. clarify goals, list alternatives to achieve goals, investigate consequences of alternatives, order goals by importance, and choose the course of action.

    e. order goals by importance, list alternatives to achieve goals, investigate consequences of alternatives, clarify goals, and choose the course of action.

8. A new concern of activists about the sale of weapons is

    a. sales of fusion weapons to Middle Eastern countries.

    b. sales of ballistic missiles to South America.

    c. U.S. sales of biological and chemical weapons to Israel.

    d. Israeli weapons sales to India.

    e. sales of small arms, especially assault rifles, to unstable conflict zones.

9. Which event in the post-World War II period probably brought the United States and the Soviet Union closest to nuclear war?

    a. Building of the Berlin Wall

    b. Cuban Missile Crisis

    c. Korean War

    d. U.S. involvement in Vietnam

    e. The Berlin airlift