All Free International Relations MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Ariel Sharon
  • B. Yitzak Rabin
  • C. Ehud Barak
  • D. Shimon Peres

Explanation: Ariel Sharon became Israel’s prime minister in 2001 and was strongly associated with Israel’s response to terrorism and the Palestinian…

Correct answer: Ariel Sharon
  • A. William J. Bryan
  • B. Woodrow Wilson
  • C. General Pershing
  • D. Theodore Roosevelt

Explanation: President Woodrow Wilson ordered the US occupation of Veracruz in April 1914 during a dispute with Victoriano Huerta’s Mexico.

Correct answer: Woodrow Wilson
  • A. Count Sturgkh
  • B. Isvan Tisza
  • C. Friedrich Adler
  • D. Nicola Pasic

Explanation: Count Karl von Stürgkh was the Austrian prime minister when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in July 1914.

Correct answer: Count Sturgkh
  • A. Alexander Krivoshein
  • B. Alexander Kerenski
  • C. Grigory Rasputin
  • D. Tsar Nicholas II

Explanation: Tsar Nicholas II authorised Russia’s general mobilisation in the July Crisis, a step that accelerated the outbreak of the First World War.

Correct answer: Tsar Nicholas II
  • A. Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
  • B. Otto von Bismarck
  • C. Theodor Seitz
  • D. Helmut von Moltke

Explanation: Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg was German chancellor when Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August 1914.

Correct answer: Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
  • A. Rene Viviani
  • B. Raymond Poincare
  • C. Adolphe Messimy
  • D. Ferdinand Foch

Explanation: Raymond Poincaré was president of France when Germany declared war on France in August 1914.

Correct answer: Raymond Poincare
  • A. Baron Sonnino
  • B. Benito Mussolini
  • C. Antonio Salandra
  • D. Marquis di San Giuliano

Explanation: Antonio Salandra was Italy’s premier when Italy declared neutrality at the beginning of the First World War.

Correct answer: Antonio Salandra
  • A. China
  • B. Russia
  • C. USA
  • D. Germany

Explanation: China invaded Vietnam in February 1979, shortly after Vietnam invaded Cambodia.

Correct answer: China
  • A. 1980
  • B. 1981
  • C. 1982
  • D. 1983

Explanation: Israel completed its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula on 25 April 1982 under the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.

Correct answer: 1982
  • A. 2006
  • B. 2005
  • C. 2004
  • D. 2003Stream History Documentaries

Explanation: Slobodan Milošević died on 11 March 2006 while being held at the UN detention centre in The Hague during his war-crimes trial.

Correct answer: 2006
  • A. France
  • B. Germany
  • C. Russia
  • D. England

Explanation: The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 occurred in Russia and brought the Bolshevik Party to power under Lenin.

Correct answer: Russia
  • A. World Trade centre in New York City
  • B. The Pentagon n Arlington, Virginia
  • C. Rural Pennsylvania
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: The September 11, 2001 attacks struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, while one hijacked aircraft crashed in rural Pennsylvania.

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Anaconda
  • B. Cobra
  • C. Black Mamba
  • D. Russell Viper

Explanation: Operation Anaconda was launched in March 2002 in Afghanistan’s Shah-i-Kot Valley against Taliban and al-Qaeda forces.

Correct answer: Anaconda
  • A. Crimean War
  • B. American Civil War
  • C. American War of Independence
  • D. 1st World War

Explanation: The American Civil War lasted from 1861 to 1865, mainly between the Union and the Confederacy.

Correct answer: American Civil War
  • A. Rwanda
  • B. Croatia
  • C. Somalia
  • D. Democratic Congo

Explanation: In early 2009, the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known as MONUC, was the largest peacekeeping operation.

Correct answer: Democratic Congo
  • A. it is authorized by a 2/3 majority of the permanent members of the Security Council
  • B. the nonviolent means called for in Chapter 6 have failed
  • C. a peacekeeping operation has been deployed and has failed to prevent the aggressor from advancing or continuing the use of violence
  • D. it is approved unanimously by the General Assembly

Explanation: Chapter VII permits coercive action when peaceful measures have proved inadequate, which is the principle reflected in option b.

Correct answer: the nonviolent means called for in Chapter 6 have failed
  • A. Security of a country defined in socio-economic terms
  • B. Security largely defined in militarized terms
  • C. Security based on a country's domestic politics
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: In the traditional realist usage, national security primarily means protecting the state from external military threats, so it is defined…

Correct answer: Security largely defined in militarized terms
  • A. Because it causes the system to be anarchic
  • B. Because is leads to lack of trust in the international system
  • C. Because it changes the balance of power in the international system
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: Because states cannot be certain about one another's intentions, they face mistrust and may interpret defensive measures as threatening.

Correct answer: Because is leads to lack of trust in the international system
  • A. Where states help spread instability and conflict in between other states
  • B. It is the dilemma a state faces when dealing when constructing national security plans
  • C. A structural notion in which self-help attempts of stats to look after their security needs, tend regardless of intention to lead to a rise in insecurity
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: A security dilemma occurs when one state's efforts to improve its security unintentionally make other states feel less secure, prompting…

Correct answer: A structural notion in which self-help attempts of stats to look after their security needs, tend regardless of intention to lead to a rise in insecurity
  • A. 'Activity undertaken by a state, a group within a state, a group of states or an international organization which interferes coercively in the domestic affairs of another state. It is a discrete event having a beginning and an end and it is aimed at the authority structure of the target state;
  • B. 'A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries'
  • C. 'Activity undertaken by a state, a group of states or an international organization which interferes coercively in the domestic affairs of another state'
  • D. 'Threat or use of force by a state, group of states, or international organization primarily for the purpose of protecting the nationals of the target state from widespread violations of human rights

Explanation: Vincent defines intervention as coercive interference in another state's domestic affairs, carried out by a state, group, or international…

Correct answer: 'Activity undertaken by a state, a group within a state, a group of states or an international organization which interferes coercively in the domestic affairs of another state. It is a discrete event having a beginning and an end and it is aimed at the authority structure of the target state;