Deck 16: Foreign Policy

Question 1

Which of the following types of activity would a person who sets off a bomb in a crowded place, harming innocent civilians, be engaged in?

A) Diplomacy
B) Foreign policy
C) Defense policy
D) Conventional warfare
E) Terrorism

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Which of the following regimes was the U.S. war in Afghanistan fought against?

A) Assad
B) ISIS
C) Hussein
D) Boko Haram
E) Taliban

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Which of the following was President Woodrow Wilson's proposal for the League of Nations most compatible with?

A) Humanitarian assistance
B) Collective security
C) Political realism
D) Moral idealism
E) Collective security and political realism

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following is true of the Department of Defense?

A) It is smaller than the State Department.
B) It was created to gather all military activities under one department.
C) It is headed by the military joint chiefs of staff.
D) It has consistently grown in size under every president.
E) It is staffed entirely by uniformed personnel.

Question 5

The Cold War refers to the confrontation between the United States and what other country (countries) after World War II?

A) West Germany
B) France
C) The Soviet Union and communist-allied countries
D) Japan
E) Italy

Question 6

The Cold War was an ideological, political, and economic confrontation between which of the following two powers?

A) France and Germany
B) Britain and France
C) United States and Japan
D) United States and China
E) United States and the Soviet Union

Question 7

Iraq is generally seen as divided into which three principal groups?

A) Shiite Arabs, Shiite Persians, and Kurds
B) Sunni Arabs, Shiite Arabs, and Kurds
C) Sunni Arabs, Shiite Persians, and Kurds
D) Sunni Arabs, Christian Arabs, and Kurds
E) Shiite Arabs, Christian Arabs, and Kurds

Question 8

Which of the following foreign policy actions was the achievement of the Iranian nuclear deal an example of?

A) Economic aid
B) Military action
C) Covert action
D) Diplomacy
E) All of these are correct.

Question 9

To which of the following does diplomacy refer?

A) Being inoffensive and politically correct
B) A philosophy that sees nations as normally willing to cooperate
C) Formal public meetings held by heads of government
D) Relations between countries, including the settling of disputes and conflicts among nations by peaceful and non-military methods
E) The manner in which the armed forces are deployed

Question 10

Currently, which of the following is the greatest concern in U.S. and Iranian relations?

A) Iran's assistance to insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan
B) Iran's secret development of a nuclear capability
C) Iran's treatment of American citizens living and working in Iran
D) Iran's closed society that forbids Iranians from traveling outside of Iran
E) The U.S. treatment of Iranian citizens living and working in the United States

Question 11

The people of Iraq are divided into how many principal group(s)?

A) More than twenty
B) Five
C) Eleven
D) Three
E) Just one

Question 12

The United States entered into the Gulf War in 1990 to drive which of the following leader's troops out of Kuwait?

A) Saddam Hussein
B) Osama bin Laden
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Vladimir Putin
E) Kim Jong Un

Question 13

Given the dynamics of the process of diplomacy, which of the following is necessary for it to be successful?

A) If all parties involved have a history of successful diplomacy
B) If all parties are allies
C) If all parties are equal in their military power
D) If all parties are equal in their economic power
E) If all parties are willing to negotiate.

Question 14

Why did the Bush administration launch a military surge in 2007 in Iraq?

A) To hunt down the remaining members of the Sunni regime
B) To locate bin Laden and bring him to justice
C) To topple Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq
D) To defeat an increasingly violent insurgency that was destabilizing Iraq
E) To overthrow an Iraqi government that was not cooperating with American plans

Question 15

Assistance to other nations in the form of grants, loans, or credits to buy the assisting nation's products is called which of the following?

A) In-kind subsidy
B) Tariff
C) Export
D) Economic aid
E) Foreign direct investment

Question 16

The Cold War refers to a conflict between the United States and its democratic allies, and which set of countries?

A) The "Asian Tigers"
B) The Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan
C) The Soviet Union and communist-allied countries
D) South America and leftist guerrillas
E) The European Union

Question 17

If a U.S. president supports an allied foreign regime, even when that regime is non-democratic or oppressive of its people, that president is acting in line with which of the following?

A) Humanitarian assistance
B) Collective security
C) Political realism
D) Moral idealism
E) Collective security and moral idealism

Question 18

The relatively quick task of defeating the Iraqi military during the 2003 Iraq War, was followed by which of the following?

A) The immediate establishment of a flourishing democracy
B) A return to dictatorship, led by the sons of Saddam Hussein
C) The coalition invasion of Iran
D) A short lived anti-coalition Kurdish insurgency
E) Instability because of both ethnic conflicts between Iraqis and resistance to foreign occupation

Question 19

When a country settles a dispute with another country using peaceful means instead of resorting to war, it is an example of which of the following?

A) Arbitrage
B) Diplomacy
C) Collective bargaining
D) Isolationism
E) Expansionism

Question 20

A policy designed to protect the independence and political integrity of a country is known as which of the following?

A) A military alliance
B) Collective defense
C) Statesmanship
D) Foreign policy
E) National security policy

Question 21

If Congress cut funding for American military operations in Syria, which of the following would it be doing?

A) Acting unconstitutionally because the president is commander-in-chief of the military
B) Rejecting a treaty
C) Using the "power of the purse"
D) Invoking the War Powers Act
E) Practicing Keynesian economic policy

Question 22

Describe the tactics used by terrorists. Discuss the raid by American forces in Pakistan against Osama bin Laden, and explain the degree to which terrorist tactics were used in it.

Question 23

Explain national security policy and defense policy, making note of the difference between the two and using examples to demonstrate their features.

Question 24

After World War I, the United States returned to a foreign policy based primarily on which of the following?

A) Isolationism
B) Interventionism
C) Unilateralism
D) Globalization
E) Multilateralism

Question 25

By passing the War Powers Resolution Act, Congress established limits on the powers of the president in setting foreign and defense policy following which of the following wars?

A) World War II
B) Revolutionary War
C) Vietnam War
D) World War I
E) Korean War

Question 26

Explain the rise of ISIS/Islamic State, and discuss its connections to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Question 27

Which of the following was a major determinant of U.S. foreign policy in the country's formative years?

A) That the United States was destined to become a very powerful nation
B) That the United States was very weak militarily
C) The influence of religion
D) The strength of America's navy
E) America's interest in the Pacific

Question 28

Discuss the type of terrorism pursued by groups like the IRA and ETA. Explain the degree to which Al Qaeda is similar.

Question 29

Which of the following is an example of a U.S. isolationist policy?

A) First Gulf War
B) Formation of NATO
C) Containment doctrine
D) Monroe Doctrine
E) The Vietnam War

Question 30

Discuss the differences between moral idealism and political realism?

Question 31

When did the last vestige of American isolationism end?

A) The Great Depression
B) World War II
C) Entry into the UN
D) When France and the United States signed a mutual alliance pact
E) Korean War

Question 32

Explain how the war on terror has influenced relations between the United States and other countries.

Question 33

Within the U.S. government, which executive agency has primary authority over foreign affairs?

A) Senate
B) North American Trade Organization
C) Central Intelligence Agency
D) State Department
E) White House Executive Office

Question 34

Explain what it means to make foreign policy on the basis of moral idealism, and give an example of this from American foreign policy action.

Question 35

Discuss the types of terrorism traditionally pursued in the twentieth century and how that has changed in the twenty-first century. Explain which style of terrorism ISIS's actions best fit.

Question 36

Which of the following would be considered an intelligence activity?

A) Overt information gathering
B) Establishing a business presence in a foreign country to promote use of American products
C) Helping to formulate foreign policy
D) Expanding American influence through pop culture, such as movies
E) Launching an invasion of another country

Question 37

Discuss the course of the war on terror, and evaluate how much success the United States has had in waging it.

Question 38

The doctrine of containment set forth by George F. Kennan called for which of the following?

A) The United States seeking to "roll back" communism in Eastern Europe
B) The United States building a metaphoric wall of policies to isolate communist countries from the rest of world, including keep them out of the UN
C) The United States initiating arms reduction talks
D) The United States blocking the spread of communism to additional countries
E) No trade between capitalist countries like the United States and communist countries like the Soviet Union

Question 39

To whom does the National Security Council report?

A) The joint chiefs of staff
B) CIA
C) Congress
D) State Department
E) President

Question 40

The first break with traditional isolationism and the first large-scale involvement of the United States in an international conflict on foreign soil took place with which of the following events?

A) French Revolution
B) World War I
C) Vietnam War
D) World War II
E) Korean War

Question 41

Explain the constitutional clash of powers between the president and Congress in the area of foreign policymaking.

Question 42

Discuss the constitutional powers of the president to conduct foreign policy, including the use of military force. Explain what the War Powers Act does and whether that can be considered an infringement on the president's foreign policy powers.

Question 43

Describe the current distribution of nuclear weapons in the world. Discuss and evaluate efforts to control further nuclear proliferation.

Question 44

Evaluate the foreign policy powers of the president and Congress, and craft an argument about who you believe to be the true holder of foreign policy power in the U.S. government.

Question 45

Discuss the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Explain why efforts were eventually made to try to limit it and how successful those were.

Question 46

Describe the purpose and function of the United Nations.

Question 47

Explain what diplomacy is. Discuss the efforts to prevent North Korea from engaging in nuclear proliferation, and explain whether that is an example of diplomacy or some other foreign policy tactic.

Question 48

Trace the evolution of American foreign policy from isolationism to global leadership.

Question 49

Describe the details of isolationist and internationalist foreign policies. Discuss American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War, and explain whether it has been more isolationist or internationalist.

Question 50

Describe the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and the efforts to bring peace to this troubled part of the world.

Question 51

Discuss what Keynesian economic policy says countries in debt should do. Describe the Obama administration's response to the European debt problems in the wake of the global recession a few years ago, and explain whether the Obama administration was practicing Keynesianism.

Question 52

Explain what the internationally recognized solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is. Discuss American foreign policy toward Israel, and explain whether U.S. policy is consistent with the internationally recognized solution to the problem.

Question 53

Explain the role of the president in setting foreign policy and national security policy. Discuss both constitutional and informal powers of the president in these roles.

Question 54

Characterize the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Explain the degree to which the relationship between the United States and Russia is similar.

Question 55

Explain the concept of containment and discuss how it relates to the Truman Doctrine.