Question: What did Castlereagh determine as the last resort of great power's influence?
Answer: if necessary the general arms against the Power that shall first attempt to disturb the Continental peace

Question: What 2 powers named in the 5 orignal great powers of the congress of vienna have maintained that status?
Answer: only France and the United Kingdom

Question: What country emerged as the pre-eminent power, due to its navy and the extent of its territories?
Answer: British Empire

Question: What country lost Franco-Prussian war?
Answer: France

Question: Balance of power of great powers was a major influence on what continents politics?
Answer: European

Question: Who stated that "All politics reduces itself to this formula: try to be one of three, as long as the world is governed by the unstable equilibrium of five great powers.?"
Answer: Otto von Bismarck

Question: Was the power of the 5 countries constant?
Answer: relative power of these five nations fluctuated

Question: What countries found their economic growth in early 20th century?
Answer: United Kingdom and Prussia

Question: Which of the 5 powers were beginning to stagnate in early 20th century?
Answer: Russia and Austria-Hungary

Question: What agreement replaced the Congress of Vienna?
Answer: Eight-Nation Alliance

Question: What conflict was this agreement in opposition of?
Answer: Boxer Rebellion in China.

Question: What marked the conclusion of The Great War?
Answer: treaties of Versailles, St-Germain, Neuilly, Trianon and Sèvres

Question: Who were  the chief arbiters of the new world order?
Answer: United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan and the United States

Question: Who created the Treaty of Versailles?
Answer: Big Three

Question: Who were the big four?
Answer: France, Italy, United Kingdom and the United States

Question: Who were the four permanent members of the League of Nations Council?
Answer: United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Japan

Question: What organiztion acted as acknowledgement of status of great powers?
Answer: League of Nations Council

Question: Why was United Stated excluded from League of Nations Council?
Answer: against the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, thus preventing American participation in the League

Question: When did US Senate vote against treaty of versailles ratification?
Answer: 19 March 1920

Question: When did World War II start?
Answer: 1939

Question: How many groups were involved in conflict of World War II?
Answer: two alliances

Question: Who were the winners of World War II?
Answer: Allies

Question: Who made up the Axis powers?
Answer: Germany, Italy and Japan

Question: The winners of World War II along with France were allotted permanent seats for what organization?
Answer: United Nations Security Council

Question: What is a superpower?
Answer: nations with overwhelming power and influence in the rest of the world

Question: Who first used the term superpower?
Answer: William T.R. Fox

Question: Who were the three original superpowers?
Answer: British Empire, the United States, and the Soviet Union

Question: Who lost their superpower status in 1950s?
Answer: British Empire

Question: What are middle powers?
Answer: those nations which exercise a degree of global influence, but are insufficient to be decisive on international affairs

Question: During the cold war, what European powers rebuilt their ecomonies?
Answer: United Kingdom, France, and West Germany

Question: By what year was China beginning to lose its hold as sole legitimate government?
Answer: 1949

Question: When did China lose its permanent seat at UN security council?
Answer: 1971

Question: Since what time has military conflicts receded?
Answer: 1960s

Question: What country has risen above other superpowers?
Answer: United States

Question: Since what century has there always been parity in powers?
Answer: modern era (the 16th century)

Question: Who's primacy has factored into maintaining peace among powers?
Answer: American

Question: What formerly effective tool for international disputes is no longer effective among peer powers?
Answer: military force

Question: What great powers have maintained peace?
Answer: France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States

Question: Where have the powers maintained peace in recent years?
Answer: United Nations and other forums

Question: What was the last crisis during cold war to escalate world powers?
Answer: Cuban missile crisis (1962

Question: What countries are recognized as Nuclear Weapons States?
Answer: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States

Question: How many countries are permanent seats on the UN Security Council?
Answer: five

Question: What other countries are referred to as middle powers?
Answer: China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom

Question: What treaty addresses nuclear weapons?
Answer: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Question: What countries are great powers mostly based on economic reasons?
Answer: Japan and Germany

Question: Due to lack of strategic and hard power, countries are excluded from what?
Answer: UN Security Council

Question: What is the name for the grouping of countries of China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom; Germany and Japan?
Answer: middle powers

Question: Zbigniew Brzezinski and Malik Mohan consider what country to be a great power too?
Answer: India

Question: Is there agreement on the status of all powers?
Answer: no collective agreement

Question: Many academics debate the status of this country as a power?
Answer: India

Question: Milena Sterio includes what former axis powers among great powers?
Answer: Germany, Italy and Japan

Question: What emerging power is considered a great power?
Answer: India

Question: What G7 members are among great powers?
Answer: Germany, Japan and Italy

Question: Which country is debated as intermittent and/or least of great powers?
Answer: Italy

Question: What organization is often seen as a great power in addition to member counties?
Answer: European Union

Question: What other tools are used as alternative to military force?
Answer: trade and diplomacy

Question: How many great powers are members of Europian Union?
Answer: three

Question: What summits does EU have membership?
Answer: WTO and at G8 and G-20

Question: How many wars occured between 1500s and 1953?
Answer: 64

Question: For bout how many years was an average of one great power fighting another each year?
Answer: 450

Question: What country had the most conflicts from 1500s through mid 20th century?
Answer: UK

Question: What span was the Pax Britannica?
Answer: between 1815 and 1914

Question: During the period from 1989 - 1996, what was the total are of the US in miles?
Answer: 3,618,780 sq mi

Question: According to the CIA World Factbook, what is the total area of the US in miles?
Answer: 3,794,100 sq mi

Question: According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, what is the total area of the US in miles?
Answer: 3,676,486 sq mi

Question: Compared to other countries, how large is the US?
Answer: third or fourth largest country

Question: Which country is the worlds fourth largest?
Answer: Canada

Question: Who may also be the third largest country?
Answer: China

Question: Who does the US share land borders with?
Answer: Canada (to the north) and Mexico (to the south),

Question: Who does the US share water borders with in the northwest?
Answer: Russia

Question: How many contiguous states are there?
Answer: forty-eight

Question: Which ocean does Alaska border to the south?
Answer: Pacific Ocean

Question: What is the capital city of the US?
Answer: Washington, District of Columbia

Question: Which US state donated Washington, D.C.?
Answer: Maryland

Question: What are the US territories overseas located in the Pacific?
Answer: Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands

Question: Which US state also donated territory to Washington, D.C., but had it returned?
Answer: Virginia