All Free International Relations MCQs with Answers

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  • A. an attempt to secure its natural reaources
  • B. an attempt to support the new Soviet policy of glasnost
  • C. an attempt to prevent the Soviet Union from gaining a seaport in the Horn of Africa
  • D. a proxy war with the Soviet Union

Explanation: The Horn of Africa conflict reflected Cold War competition, with the United States and Soviet Union backing opposing regional sides at…

Correct answer: a proxy war with the Soviet Union
  • A. were crises during the post-Cold War
  • B. were crises that ted to World War II
  • C. were crises that followed the Vietnam War
  • D. were crises during the Cold

Explanation: The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 were major confrontations of the Cold War.

Correct answer: were crises during the Cold
  • A. 15
  • B. 11
  • C. 18
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The UN Sustainable Development Agenda contains 17 interlinked goals, so none of the listed numbers is correct.

Correct answer: None of these
  • A. December 1989
  • B. December 1990
  • C. December 1991
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The Soviet Union formally dissolved in December 1991, and its fifteen constituent republics became independent states.

Correct answer: December 1991
  • A. Joseph Stalin
  • B. Mikhail Gorbachev
  • C. Leonid Brezhnev
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Mikhail Gorbachev introduced glasnost, meaning greater openness, and perestroika, meaning economic and political restructuring, during the…

Correct answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
  • A. Germany
  • B. Russia
  • C. India
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The Monroe Doctrine was announced by the United States in 1823 to oppose European intervention in the Americas.

Correct answer: None of these
  • A. America
  • B. Russia
  • C. Britain
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Britain issued the Balfour Declaration in November 1917, expressing support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.

Correct answer: Britain
  • A. Regulate Economy
  • B. Control Population Growth
  • C. Promote Urbanization
  • D. None of these

Explanation: China introduced the One-Child Policy primarily to slow rapid population growth and reduce pressure on resources and public services.

Correct answer: Control Population Growth
  • A. Obamacare
  • B. Biden care
  • C. Trumpcare
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010 under President Barack Obama, is commonly called Obamacare.

Correct answer: Obamacare
  • A. Aegean Sea
  • B. Sargasso Sea
  • C. Red Sea
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The Sargasso Sea is defined by ocean currents rather than land boundaries, making it the only sea without a coastline.

Correct answer: Sargasso Sea
  • A. Agriculture Production
  • B. Privatization of Water Resources
  • C. Good Governance
  • D. None of theseTry Prep Courses

Explanation: Good governance is often overlooked in global water politics because effective institutions, accountability, and fair distribution…

Correct answer: Good Governance
  • A. a benign form of cosmopolitan democracy
  • B. equally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups
  • C. decisively shaped by European expansion and conquest
  • D. saw the establishment of the international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour

Explanation: The first wave of globalization, associated with the age of discovery, was driven by European maritime expansion, conquest, colonization…

Correct answer: decisively shaped by European expansion and conquest
  • A. the way in which contemporary globalization is equally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups
  • B. the way in which contemporary globalization is unequally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups
  • C. the degree to which networks or patterns of social interaction are formally constituted as organizations with specific purposes
  • D. a process in which the organization of social activities is increasingly less constrained by geographical proximity and national territorial boundaries

Explanation: Asymmetrical globalization means that its benefits, costs and intensity differ among regions, countries and social groups.

Correct answer: the way in which contemporary globalization is unequally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups
  • A. defined a new age in world history so today the microchip and the satellite are icons of a globalized world order
  • B. evidenced a major expansion in the spread and entrenchment of European empires
  • C. saw the expansion of transnational and international law from trade to human rights
  • D. saw the establishment of the international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour

Explanation: The second wave of globalization, from 1850 to 1945, coincided with the expansion and consolidation of European imperial rule across much…

Correct answer: evidenced a major expansion in the spread and entrenchment of European empires
  • A. a stretching of social, political, and economic activities across political frontiers.
  • B. a growing magnitude of interconnections in almost every sphere of social existence
  • C. an accelerating pace of global interactions and processes associated with a deepening enmeshment of the local and the global
  • D. all of the above

Explanation: Globalization combines the cross-border spread of activities, denser interconnections and faster interaction between local and global…

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. Arabic Sea
  • B. Mediterranean Sea
  • C. Red Sea
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The Gaza Strip lies on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Israel.

Correct answer: Mediterranean Sea
  • A. 75 percent of the world's population
  • B. 50 percent of the world's population
  • C. 65 percent of the world's population
  • D. 35 percent of the world's population

Explanation: A population of more than 5.2 billion represented roughly three-quarters of the world's population in 2011, making 75 percent the closest…

Correct answer: 75 percent of the world's population
  • A. Chile
  • B. Peru
  • C. Guyana
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Chile, Peru, and Guyana all recognised Palestine as an independent state during January 2011. Thus, the combined option is correct.

Correct answer: All of these
  • A. 1979
  • B. 1980
  • C. 1981
  • D. 1982

Explanation: Iran's Islamic Revolution occurred in 1979 and overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy, bringing Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Republic to power.

Correct answer: 1979
  • A. Greenpeace
  • B. Amnesty International
  • C. Save Environment
  • D. Save World

Explanation: Greenpeace is an international environmental NGO known for campaigns to protect ecosystems, biodiversity and natural resources.

Correct answer: Greenpeace