WorksheetsAS31003 WORLD POLITICAL ISSUES
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is meant by the Thucydides Trap?
A situation where two countries cooperate
economically to avoid war.
A condition where a rising power threatens
to displace an existing dominant power,
potentially leading to conflict.
A diplomatic strategy used to prevent foreign interference in domestic affairs..
A proxy war between two major powers fought in a third country without direct involvement.
3 great powers largely shaped regional development:
The United State
North Korea
Japan
China
India
Cold War period:
1945-1992
1945-1980
1945-1990
1945-1982
What do realists and neorealists consider to be the real cause of the Cold War?
Ideological differences between the United States and the Soviet Union
Power vacuum in Central Europe and East Asia
Nuclear arms race
Soviet Union's expansionist policies
According to liberals, what factor prevented the elimination of conflict between the two superpowers during the Cold War?
Military competition
Lack of economic cooperation due to ideological differences
Arms race
Power Vacuum in Europe
What do constructivists view as the main source of conflict during the Cold War?
Economic Inequality
Ideological propaganda
Contrasting identities of the superpowers
Competition for resources
How do Marxists interpret the Cold
War?
As a result of power vacuum
As a class struggle within the superpowers
As a form of Western imperialism dominating weaker peripheral countries
As a miscommunication between leaders
Why was the Yalta Conference (1945)
significant in the context of the Cold War?
It marked the official beginning of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
It resolved all territorial disputes between the Allied powers after World War Il.
It laid the groundwork for post-war Europe and exposed tensions between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
It created NATO to counter Soviet influence in Eastern Europe.
Cold War impact :
Russia - Ukraine Conflict
Cuban missile Crisis
Tianamen Square 1989
South China Sea Dispute
Which country that Soviets Union decided to invade in the Middle East 1979?
Iraq
Iran
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962:
Cuban Revolution 1959
Castro support for communism
Bay of Pigs Disaster 1961
Castro support from USSR
All above
Which president of USA visited then communist
China in 1971?
Kennedy
Nixon
Carter
Barack Obama
Post Cold War International System
Bipolar-Unipolar
Bipolar-Multipolar
Unipolar-Bipolar
Bipolar-tripolar
What was the main purpose of the establishment of the Warsaw Pact in 1955?
To promote economic cooperation among
Eastern European countries
To counter the influence and military threat of NATO
To expand Soviet territory into Western Europe
To encourage democratic reforms in the Eastern Bloc
What was established in 1954 to prevent communism from gaining ground the region?
ASEAN
NATO
SEATO
APEC
Major Impact of Cold War in Asia-Pacific region aconomic
BIMP EAGA
ASEAN
AFTA
APEC
Which country adopted a socialist approach during the Cold War?
US
China
Soviet Union
West Germany
Indo-China became a major battleground for superpower rivalry between the US and Soviet , China during Cold War. Indo-China now refer to:
Vietnam, Laos, & Cambodia
Taiwan, Laos, & Burma
China, Laos, & Indonesia
Cambodia, Vietnam & Myanmar
Which country divided into East and West due to Cold War tensions?
Korea
Vietnam
Germany
Yugoslavia
Malaysia-China established diplomatic relations in:
1974
1970
1976
1972
