Quiz #2 longer answer material

Question 1

Reasons British prime ministers are better able than presidents to get legislation passed (fusion and strong party system)

Question 2

important features of British Parliment

Question 3

What makes for a strong party system?

Question 4

three paths to the holding of national elections in Britain

Question 5

Main parties in U.K., their general policy positions, and connections between electoral outcomes (especially for the Liberals) and the SMD/FPTP electoral system

Question 6

Role of monarch; reasons for Britons’ mixed feelings about the monarchy

Question 7

Role of monarch; reasons for Britons’ mixed feelings about the monarchy

Question 8

Reasons for Euro-skepticism in Britain and outright hostility toward ‘Europe’ (i.e., the E.U.) on the part of UKIP/Reform U.K.

Question 9

Impacts (mostly negative) of Brexit (including the very difficult and touchy “hard-border” issue

Question 10

Capsule history of the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland (aka Ulster) Note that both the Nationalist and Unionist communities perceived themselves to be under deep threat

Question 11

The relatively mild disagreements over social issues (abortion, gay rights, guns)

Question 12

Versailles Treaty: punitive measures against Germany after W.W. I (territorial losses [Alsace-Lorraine, most notably]; reparations; war guilt clause; military restrictions)

Question 13

Stresses leading to the demise of the Weimar Republic

Question 14

Germany’s re-emergence as an independent, sovereign state (1949) under Adenauer’s leadership