Deck 16: Foreign Policy

Question 1

_____________ refers to actions a government takes on behalf of its national interests abroad to ensure the security and well-being of its citizens and the strength and competitiveness its economy.

A) Domestic policy
B) Economic policy
C) Globalization
D) Interdependence
E) Foreign policy

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Since the end of World War II, U.S. foreign policy has been

A) quite similar to what it was before the Civil War.
B) a cautious balancing act between American democratic ideals and U.S. military and economic interests.
C) an attempt to destabilize any country that proposes obtaining nuclear capabilities.
D) genuinely uniform without any deviations in methods of bringing about peace.
E) quite unstable and unpredictable.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

____________ is a pattern in which a country fosters economic relations abroad without committing to strategic alliances that might draw that country into war.

A) Survival
B) Isolationism
C) Independence
D) Balancing
E) Globalism

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a core value of US foreign policy?

A) Survival and independence
B) Territorial integrity and acquisition of new territory
C) Military security
D) Economic security
E) Global interdependence

Question 5

What was the dominant foreign policy during the nineteenth century?

A) globalism
B) containment
C) isolationism
D) internationalism
E) interdependence.

Question 6

Which of the following doctrines reinforced the United States' tendency toward isolationism in the early 1800s?

A) Monroe Doctrine
B) Bush Doctrine
C) Truman Doctrine
D) Eisenhower Doctrine
E) Kennedy Doctrine.

Question 7

What policy did the Monroe Doctrine reinforce?

A) globalism
B) regionalism
C) isolationism
D) containment
E) internationalism.

Question 8

The National Security Act of 1947 created the ___________ and the National Security Council.

A) Federal Bureau of Investigation
B) Department of Homeland Security
C) Foreign Policy Association
D) State Department
E) Central Intelligence Agency

Question 9

The sinking of the Lusitania led to American involvement in

A) the Spanish-American War.
B) World War I.
C) World War II.
D) the Korean War.
E) the Vietnam War.

Question 10

Woodrow Wilson promoted the creation of an international organization after WWI. The name of this organization was

A) the United Nations.
B) the World Bank.
C) the Organization of American States.
D) the International Monetary Fund.
E) League of Nations

Question 11

The second era in U.S. foreign policy has been characterized by

A) the founding of the republic.
B) isolationism.
C) expansion of the Western Hemisphere.
D) two world wars.
E) globalization.

Question 12

Franklin Delano Roosevelt gained congressional authorization under what program to provide military assistance to any country whose security the president determined was vital to the security of the United States?

A) Truman Doctrine
B) New World Order
C) War Powers Resolution
D) Monroe Doctrine
E) Lend-lease law

Question 13

The National Security Act of 1947 created the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, signaling the readiness of the United States to move from

A) regionalism to containment.
B) regionalism to globalism.
C) isolationism to regionalism.
D) isolationism to globalism.
E) globalism to isolationism.

Question 14

During the post-World War II period, the term "superpower" applied

A) only to the United States.
B) both to the United Sates and the Soviet Union.
C) to the Western and Communist alliance systems.
D) to any nation that developed an atomic bomb.
E) to the Soviet Union only.

Question 15

What was the disproportionate power that distinguished the United States and the Soviet Union from all other countries in the postwar era called?

A) detente
B) containment
C) superpower
D) military-industrial complex
E) nuclear weapons

Question 16

The intention to assist free, democratic nations beat back the threat of totalitarianism became known as the

A) Monroe Doctrine.
B) Truman Doctrine.
C) New World Order.
D) War Powers Resolution.
E) Bush Doctrine.

Question 17

What doctrine guided U.S. foreign policy between 1947 and 1990?

A) isolationism
B) globalism
C) containment
D) regionalism
E) interdependence

Question 18

In 1949, the United States secured the commitment of eleven European nations to form the

A) United Nations.
B) Warsaw Pact.
C) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT).
D) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
E) League of Nations.

Question 19

The U.S. monopoly of nuclear weapons ended in

A) 1914.
B) 1935.
C) 1949.
D) 1990.
E) 2009

Question 20

What military alliance was formed by the Soviet Union to counter NATO?

A) Warsaw Pact
B) War Powers Resolution
C) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
D) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
E) Peace Corps

Question 21

What president formed the Peace Corps?

A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Bill Clinton
E) Barack Obama

Question 22

The fundamental division of economic and military power between the poles; Western capitalism and Eastern communism is termed

A) hegemony.
B) unipolarity.
C) multipolarity.
D) tripolarity.
E) bipolarity.

Question 23

Which country dropped atomic bombs on Japan?

A) Germany
B) Great Britain
C) France
D) Soviet Union
E) United States

Question 24

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution granted

A) President Nixon authority to initiate a policy of detente.
B) President Johnson authority to pursue the war in Vietnam.
C) President Kennedy authority to invade Cuba.
D) President George Bush authority to invade Iraq in 1991.
E) President Carter to invade Iran in the 1970s.

Question 25

An attempt to relax tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union through limited cooperation is termed

A) foreign aid.
B) globalism.
C) new world order.
D) containment.
E) détente.

Question 26

The breakup of Yugoslavia

A) had very little international effects.
B) was directed by the American CIA.
C) brought various diverse factions together.
D) triggered a genocidal war among various ethnic factions.
E) created two new states in Europe.

Question 27

The policy of detente begun by Nixon was an attempt to

A) increase America's military preparedness against its enemies.
B) end the Vietnam War with honor.
C) relax tensions between the superpowers.
D) open trade markets with Western Europe.
E) escalate operations in Vietnam.

Question 28

With the demise of the Soviet Union and the post-Cold War changes in the international system, the United States' employment of containment as its guiding foreign policy principle

A) is no longer as relevant.
B) is still as relevant as in the past, because a new Soviet Union might form in the very near future.
C) is still relevant since it can now be applied to the communist nations of Latin America.
D) will now be applied exclusively to China and North Korea.
E) will be applied to all states of the international system.

Question 29

What term describes the post-Cold War period?

A) containment
B) internationalism
C) New World Order
D) isolationism
E) globalization

Question 30

The doctrine of containment

A) was the key component of the Truman Doctrine.
B) was developed in the Soviet Union to counter the Marshall Plan.
C) ended the United States' commitment to the League of Nations.
D) was the informal policy of preventing Japan from having a military after World War II.
E) was used to export democracy to Germany.

Question 31

The policy of detente contributed to

A) a further escalation of the Cold War.
B) the Vietnam War.
C) the development of the United Nations.
D) an attempt to relax tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
E) the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Question 32

Nothing in the international arena was ever the same following

A) the U.S. Civil War.
B) World War I.
C) World War II.
D) the Korean War.
E) Vietnam War

Question 33

At the height of the Cold War, the United States entered into one of its most damaging military intervention thus far,

A) the War in the Persian Gulf.
B) the war in Vietnam.
C) the Korean War.
D) the War on Terrorism.
E) the war in Iraq.

Question 34

The SALT I was signed by

A) President George W. Bush in 2001.
B) President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
C) President Jimmy Carter in 1974.
D) President Richard Nixon in 1972.
E) President Gerald Ford in 1976.

Question 35

In July of 1965, Lyndon Johnson chose to Americanize the Vietnam War by

A) involving South American armies in the effort.
B) pulling out of the war altogether.
C) increasing U.S. combat strength from 75,000 to 125,000.
D) decreasing U.S. combat strength from 125,000 to 75,000.
E) deploying another 500,000 US troops.

Question 36

SALT II was signed by

A) the US but not the USSR.
B) the USSR but not the US.
C) the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries.
D) neither the US nor the USSR.
E) None of the Above.

Question 37

Economic sanctions have probably been the most effective in the case of

A) Cuba.
B) Iraq.
C) South Africa.
D) Bosnia and Serbia.
E) China.

Question 38

Which of the following is NOT a constitutional authority given to the president in the realm of foreign policy?

A) negotiating treaties with other nations
B) appointing United States ambassadors
C) committing troops to foreign lands
D) power to declare war
E) appoints heads of all of the executive departments that make foreign policy.

Question 39

SALT II

A) has expired.
B) never entered into force.
C) is still in force.
D) is being voted on at the next summit.
E) None of the Above.

Question 40

START I

A) has expired.
B) never entered into force.
C) is still in force.
D) is being voted on at the next summit.
E) failed to be ratified by the international community.

Question 41

Congress has what foreign policy power?

A) negotiating treaties with other nations
B) appointing United States ambassadors
C) committing troops to foreign lands
D) power to declare war
E) negotiating treaties.

Question 42

What did Congress pass in 1973 in an attempt to restore the balance of power with the executive branch and prevent military involvement without congressional approval?

A) Warsaw Pact
B) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
C) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
D) War Powers Resolution
E) Economic sanctions

Question 43

In his 2002 State of the Union Address, President Bush named an "axis of evil" that included

A) South Korea, Turkey, and Iraq.
B) North Korea, Iraq, and Iran.
C) Iran, South Korea, and Egypt.
D) Cuba, North Korea, and Turkey.
E) Iran. Iraq and China

Question 44

Foreign affairs is primarily the domain of the Department of

A) Energy.
B) State.
C) Defense.
D) Treasury.
E) Homeland Security.

Question 45

Which of the following agencies dominates national security issues related to defense?

A) Department of State
B) Department of Defense
C) Central Intelligence Agency
D) National Security Agency
E) Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Question 46

Legislative oversight

A) does not apply to foreign affairs.
B) cannot apply to the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.
C) must be approved by the president when foreign affairs are the subject.
D) is a means of influence by Congress over foreign policy.
E) is meant to limit Congressional influence on foreign policy.

Question 47

What is the driving force behind U.S. foreign policy?

A) the president
B) the United States Senate
C) the United States House of Representatives
D) the Central Intelligence Agency
E) public opinion.

Question 48

Congress has increased its access to foreign policy information since the

A) Spanish-American War.
B) Great Depression.
C) beginning of World War II.
D) Vietnam War.
E) World War I.

Question 49

The National Security Council (NSC) acts

A) as an advisory body to the president on issues relating to national security.
B) on the orders of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when the president is outside of the United States.
C) as an official standing committee of both the House and the Senate.
D) as a supervisor to the president when he is making military decisions.
E) has not played a significant role in national security issues of the United States.

Question 50

The use of embargoes and boycotts rather than military force to compel compliance is referred to as

A) economic sanctions.
B) détente.
C) foreign activism.
D) enlargement.
E) containment.

Question 51

The Department of Defense is the principal __________ adviser to the president.

A) military
B) diplomatic
C) domestic
D) judicial
E) policy

Question 52

How many service branches comprise the Defense Department?

A) two
B) four
C) six
D) eight
E) ten

Question 53

Who is the principal military adviser to the president and is responsible for the formulation of general foreign policy?

A) secretary of state
B) secretary of defense
C) the FBI director
D) Joint Chiefs of Staff
E) National Security Agency.

Question 54

The president, the president's national security adviser, who acts as the special assistant for national security, the vice president, and the secretaries of state and defense, with the director of the CIA and the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sitting in as advisers make up the

A) Department of Energy.
B) National Security Council.
C) Department of Defense.
D) Federal Bureau of Investigation.
E) Department of Homeland Security.

Question 55

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was established after _______ to be a nonpartisan resource to the president for coordinated intelligence analysis.

A) World War II
B) the Korean War
C) the Vietnam War
D) the Cold War
E) the War in Iraq.

Question 56

What is the CIA's most important function?

A) recruiting spies who can engage in espionage against other countries
B) the gathering of political, economic, and military information about other nations
C) spying on American citizens who may be terrorists or subversives
D) paramilitary maneuvers
E) providing military advice to the Congress

Question 57

President Trump's foreign policy ideology is best summed up as:

A) Global commons
B) Collaboration and cooperation
C) America first
D) Military might makes right
E) Realist political theory

Question 58

Since the end of World War II, U.S. foreign policy has been a cautious balancing act between American democratic ideals and U.S. military and economic interests.

Question 59

Survival is one of the core values of US foreign policy.

Question 60

The ocean liner Lusitania sunk by a German submarine in 1915.

Question 61

The breakup of Yugoslavia had no effect on various ethnic factions.

Question 62

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States shifted its military focus to combat other international threats to safety.

Question 63

Once free of Britain's domination, the United States felt compelled to maintain binding relationships with European empires.

Question 64

Theodore Roosevelt strongly opposed the Panama Canal project.

Question 65

Theodore Roosevelt mediated the Russo-Japanese War.

Question 66

In 1915, a German submarine sank the ocean liner Lusitania, but no American lives were lost.

Question 67

Tensions between the United States and the USSR were briefly tabled with the outbreak of World War II.

Question 68

The bombing of Pearl Harbor known as the "Day of Infamy," galvanized Americans in an outrage that overcame the nation's traditionally isolationist orientation.

Question 69

Given the striking differences between the United States and the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, it is surprising that the Soviet Union would emerge as the chief U.S. rival.

Question 70

The Second World War really had no effect on the international arena.

Question 71

After the Second World War, the United States emerged as the only major power with a completely intact infrastructure.

Question 72

U.S. foreign policy after 1946 followed a doctrine of containment.

Question 73

The Cold War consists of a bipolar power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union that began in the 1950s and ended in the 1990s.

Question 74

Globalism is a view in which the U.S. sphere of influence has expanded beyond the Western Hemisphere to include virtually every corner of the globe where U.S. interests might be affected.

Question 75

George Kennan refused to offer any comments about how to react to the Soviet government after World War II.

Question 76

In a historic address to Congress, President Truman invoked the doctrine of containment, pledging economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey to halt the spread of communism.

Question 77

In 1960, the U.S. monopoly of nuclear weapons came to an end.

Question 78

Bipolarity refers to the fundamental division of economic and military power between the poles of Western capitalism and Eastern communism.

Question 79

In 1955, the Soviet Union and its East European allies rejected any participation in the Warsaw Pact.

Question 80

In June 1950, the Korean War became a major test of the containment policy.