Deck 12: Foreign Defense Policy: Security and Interests in a Dangerous World

Question 1

The Cold War policy of resisting any further encroachment of governments labeled communist was ____________.

A) idealism
B) collective security
C) Nuremberg principles
D) containment
E) deterrence

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Realism identifies the resources involved in creating the threat of punishment. Those resources include

A) economic power
B) the appeal of one's principle
C) military might
D) all of the above
E) (B) and (C) only

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Realists are willing to engage in

A) power politics
B) sanctions
C) limited war for limited objectives
D) diplomacy

Answer 3

C

Question 4

During the Cold War, the guiding principle of U.S. foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union was

A) Collective security
B) NATO
C) The Nuremburg Principle
D) Containment

Question 5

Collective security is a system that assumes that the preponderance of states in the world share values of peaceful coexistence and wish to prevent aggression by one state on another.

Question 6

The notion that soldiers and government officials in sovereign nations are obliged to disobey laws and policies that violate universal standards of justice is commonly referred to as:

A) The Nuremberg Principle
B) The Dresden Principle
C) The Tokyo Edict
D) None of the Above

Question 7

Balance of Power is the concept that no one power or coalition of power should be allowed to gain dominating power as to be able to dictate the terms of the relationship among nations. This is done by

A) playing a game of chess
B) bribing the stronger power with needed resources
C) shifting alliances so that one power always allies with the weaker of competing states or alliances
D) working through the resources of the United Nations

Question 8

Another name for idealism in foreign policy is

A) Wilsonianism
B) Realism
C) Institutionalism
D) Reaganism

Question 9

Which of the following statements is true of classical diplomacy?

A) There is no universal self-evident principle of justice, right or wrong or truth that nations are morally obligated to pursue.
B) There is wide-spread public support for the policy of genocide.
C) The universal principle of justice is self-evident to all reasonable people.
D) It presumes that communism is a bad thing.

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a part of Wilsonian idealism?

A) Balance of power
B) The Nuremburg Principle
C) Emphasis on diplomacy
D) Spheres of interest

Question 11

American policy toward the communist countries shortly after the Second World War would best be described as:

A) detente
B) liberation
C) containment
D) support

Question 12

Which of the following factors were important in leading to the end of the Cold War?

A) results of the Vietnam War
B) the collapse of communism
C) antagonism between Communist China and the Soviet Union
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 13

Idealism in foreign policy includes which of the following features?

A) emphasis on human rights
B) focus on power politics
C) focus on spheres of influence
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 14

___________ emphasizes diplomacy and collective action as a way of settling international disputes.

A) Realism
B) Idealism
C) Defense Department
D) North Korea

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT a prominent component of the Realist paradigm?

A) Spheres of influence
B) Power politics
C) Deterrence
D) Collective security

Question 16

Realists argue that the United States should not get involved in Rwanda or Sudan genocide, but should try to halt the ethnic cleansing of the former Yugoslavia because

A) Rwanda and Sudan are African countries.
B) the U.S. has more Yugoslavian residents than Africans
C) the U.S. has more interests at stake in the affairs of Central Europe
D) ethnic cleansing is worse than genocide

Question 17

The policy of containment was aimed at

A) rolling back communism
B) limiting the expansion of communism
C) preventing the spread of nuclear weapons
D) preventing the spread of oil pollution

Question 18

Realists criticized United States involvement in the Vietnam War because

A) we didn't have sufficient national interests to warrant the cost in resources and manpower
B) it was unwinnable
C) it was a violation of the Monroe Doctrine
D) there is no common border with Southeast Asia.

Question 19

Foreign policy decisions intended to prevent a potentially hostile power from gaining a preponderance of strength relate to the doctrine of:

A) national strength.
B) collective security.
C) internationalism.
D) balance of power.
E) isolationism.

Question 20

Realism in foreign policy includes which of the following features?

A) national interest as the primary goal
B) emphasis on balance of power
C) attention to spheres of interest
D) all of the above
E) (B) and (C) only

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT associated with foreign policy regarding Israel?

A) PLO
B) intifada
C) land for peace perspective
D) Contras
E) Gaza Strip

Question 22

The Oslo Process (Oslo Accords) was an effort to settle which ongoing dispute?

A) The Democratic Republic of Congo's civil war
B) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
C) The Sinhalese-Tamil conflict
D) The Spanish civil war

Question 23

Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed a peace agreement in 1993, returning certain parts of the occupied territories to Palestinian control.

Question 24

Which of the following were members of "the axis of evil" as identified by President George W. Bush?

A) Saudi Arabia
B) North Korea
C) Iran
D) all of the above
E) (B) and (C) only

Question 25

President George W. Bush's administration was criticized for attacking Iraq because it was considered an act of unilateralism.

Question 26

The failure of the collective security provision to pass the United Nations due to the lack of unanimous agreement by the great powers led to the creation of the ___________________.

A) iron curtain
B) Warsaw Pact
C) SEATO
D) NATO

Question 27

Examples of balancing of power strategy does NOT include

A) the United States siding with Jamaica against Granada
B) the United States siding with Kuwait against Saddam Hussein
C) the United States siding with Great Britain against Kaiser Wilhelm
D) Great Britain allying itself with the Netherlands against Louis XIV

Question 28

The "Road Map" for Israeli-Palestinian peace was put forward by the _______ Administration.

A) Clinton
B) Bush
C) Carter
D) Reagan

Question 29

The Palestinians migrated into the disputed Palestinian-Israeli territories ________________ the Zionists.

A) long before
B) at about the same time
C) long after

Question 30

_________ consists of random, devastating violence against noncombatant populations to compel another power to change its policies.

A) Terrorism
B) Containment
C) Deterrence
D) Collective security

Question 31

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are examples of

A) unilateralism
B) the principle of collective security
C) balance of power
D) deterrence

Question 32

According to the text, the death of Yassir Arafat of the Palestine Authority makes the prospects for peace _____ hopeful.

A) more
B) less
C) no change in prospects

Question 33

"Terrorism" may be defined as

A) any action that kills civilians
B) random violence against non-combatants
C) violence to compel a nation to change its policies
D) all of the above
E) the combination of (B) and (C)

Question 34

The Oslo Process was initiated by the ______ Administration to achieve a peace agreement between the Palestinians and Israel.

A) Bush Senior
B) Bush Junior
C) Reagan
D) Clinton

Question 35

The concept of containment is defined as the United States acting to resist the expansion of influence of communist powers over previously noncommunist powers.

Question 36

The "intifada" refers to

A) uprisings of fundamentalist Moslems in the Middle East.
B) the invasion of Arab territory by Israel.
C) uprisings of Shi'ite Moslems in Iran.
D) the Israeli invasion of the Golan Heights.
E) uprisings of Palestinian militants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Question 37

Israel in 2005 withdrew from the _____________.

A) West Bank
B) Golan Heights
C) Gaza Strip
D) East Bank

Question 38

American idealists tend to define military conflicts as

A) the pursuit of universal justice.
B) nothing short of survival of the country.
C) a holy crusade against evil incarnate.
D) the last resort.

Question 39

The United States Cold War strategy of relying on massive nuclear power to deter Soviet encroachment on US interests is called

A) Chicken
B) Deterrence
C) Detente
D) Hegemony

Question 40

The "intifada" is......

A) a book by Salman Rushdie
B) a Moslem religious ceremony
C) the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
D) a militant faction of the Lebanese Shi'ite militia