Chapter 3

Question 1

Lebensraum

Answer 1

Hitler’s expansionist ideology that proposed a larger living space for the german racial community

Question 2

League of Nations

Answer 2

A universal institution founded after the Paris peace conference in 1919 that embodied the collective security approach to the management of military power

Question 3

Self determination

Answer 3

Nations right to autonomy in deciding their own domestic identities

Question 4

Unanimity

Answer 4

A principle in international affairs that all nations regardless of size or identity participate in global institutions and decision making

Question 5

Appeasement

Answer 5

A policy of making concessions to a stronger foe because one is unwilling to consider the use of force

Question 6

Buck passing

Answer 6

A free riding strategy wherein a country allows other countries to fight conflicts while it stays on the sidelines

Question 7

Bandwagoning

Answer 7

The aligning states with a greater power to share the spoils of dominance

Question 8

Offensive realism

Answer 8

A school of realism that says states seek dominant power

Question 9

Defensive realism

Answer 9

A school of realism that says states seek enough power to be secure

Question 10

Chain ganging

Answer 10

The creation of a rigid defensive alliance

Question 11

Exceptionalism

Answer 11

The view that a particular state and especially the United States is distinct from others because of its specific history and unique institutions

Question 12

Genocide

Answer 12

The systematic persecution and extermination of a group of people on the basis of their national ethnic racial or religious identity