Deck 13: America, Europe, and Nato: A Changing Partnership

Question 1

Which of the following countries is Europe's leader?

A) France.
B) Italy.
C) Great Britain.
D) Germany.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following countries enjoys a "special relationship" with the United States?

A) France.
B) Italy.
C) Great Britain.
D) Germany.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In which of the following organization are most European states and the U.S. not members?

A) NATO.
B) The European Union.
C) The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
D) The Group of Seven

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following events triggered large-scale immigration to the United States?

A) The Irish famine
B) The fall on Napoleon
C) The Russo-Japanese War
D) The 1918 flu pandemic

Question 5

What region in the U.S. is home to many descendants of German immigrants?

A) California
B) New England
C) The Southeast
D) The Midwest

Question 6

Which of the following was a Rhodes Scholar in Great Britain?

A) George H. W. Bush.
B) Jimmy Carter.
C) Bill Clinton.
D) Barak Obama.

Question 7

Which of the following countries burned Washington, DC in 1812?

A) France.
B) Great Britain.
C) Spain.
D) Germany.

Question 8

Which of the following described Russia as "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"?

A) Franklin
B) Charles de Gaulle.
C) Winston Churchill.
D) Adolf Hitler.

Question 9

Which of the following deepened Soviet suspicion of the United States during World War II?

A) The delay in opening a second front in France.
B) The decrease in U.S. lend lease aid to the USSR.
C) Secret U.S.-German peace talks in Switzerland.
D) The 1944 Battle of the Bulge.

Question 10

Which of the following deepened Western suspicion of the Soviet Union after World War II?

A) The division of Berlin into four zones.
B) The accession of a communist government in Poland.
C) The triumph of the communists led by Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia.
D) Soviet aid to Mao Zedong during China's civil war.

Question 11

Which of the following was the last East European country to succumb to communism after World War II?

A) East Germany.
B) Bulgaria.
C) Rumania.
D) Czechoslovakia.

Question 12

Who declared that "the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace"?

A) George
B) Harry S. Truman.
C) Dwight
D) George Kennan.

Question 13

What took place after the West's introduction of a currency reform in its zones of occupied Germany?

A) Stalin's purge of pro-Western elements in the Soviet communist party.
B) Soviet occupation of Iranian Azerbaijan.
C) The establishment of the Warsaw Treaty Organization by the USSR.
D) The Berlin blockade.

Question 14

Which of the following Western leaders declared himself "a Berliner"?

A) John
B) Winston Churchill.
C) Konrad Adenauer.
D) Harry S. Truman.

Question 15

Which of the following led a bipartisan effort in the U.S. Senate that culminated in the formation of NATO?

A) Senator William Knowland.
B) Senator Strom Thurmond.
C) Senator Arthur Vandenberg.
D) Senator Richard M. Nixon.

Question 16

What was the only time that NATO's Article 5 has been invoked?

A) Russia's intervention in Ukraine.
B) Al-Qaeda's attacks on New York and Washington, DC.
C) North Korea's invasion of South Korea.
D) Syria's violations of Turkey's borders.

Question 17

Which of the following was not an original member of NATO?

A) Canada.
B) Italy.
C) Greece.
D) France.

Question 18

Who was NATO's first Supreme Allied Commander?

A) Wesley Clark.
B) Matthew Ridgeway.
C) Dwight
D) Alexander Haig.

Question 19

Which of the following was an initial NATO assumption?

A) Soviet leaders were rational politicians who could be deterred by American nuclear weapons.
B) The Soviet Union would use nuclear weapons before attacking Europe with conventional forces.
C) The United States was vulnerable to a Soviet nuclear attack..
D) All of the above.

Question 20

Which of the following did the Korean War demonstrate?

A) Asia, not Europe, was the region most at risk of a Soviet invasion.
B) China was more aggressive than the Soviet Union.
C) It was crucial for the United States to increase its nuclear capability.
D) America's nuclear arsenal was insufficient to prevent conventional wars.

Question 21

Which of the following produced deep divisions among the NATO allies?

A) The Suez War of 1956.
B) The Persian Gulf War of 1991.
C) The Korean War of 1950.
D) The Afghanistan War of 2001.

Question 22

Which of the following questioned the credibility of the U.S. commitment to defend Western Europe?

A) Anthony Eden.
B) Nikita S. Khrushchev.
C) Charles de Gaulle.
D) Konrad Adenauer.

Question 23

Which of the following undermined the strategy of "flexible response"?

A) French development of nuclear weapons.
B) U.S. and Soviet development of second-strike weapons.
C) German refusal to provide NATO with sufficient conventional forces.
D) Allied disagreement over the U.S. war in Vietnam.

Question 24

Which of the following was a key element of the 1975 Helsinki Accords?

A) Soviet-American agreement to reduce the number of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.
B) Recognition of the inviolability of the post-World War II frontiers in Europe.
C) East-West agreement to reunify Austria.
D) An agreement to divide Trieste between Italy and Yugoslavia.

Question 25

What event caused heightened tensions between NATO and the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s?

A) U.S. deployment of Pershing missiles in Britain.
B) Soviet bullying of Turkey and Greece.
C) U.S. development and deployment of stealth aircraft in Europe.
D) Soviet deployment of intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Europe.

Question 26

Which of the following was established as effort to foster NATO-Russia n trust after the Cold War?

A) The Partnership for Peace.
B) The Council of Europe.
C) The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
D) All of the above.

Question 27

To which of the following did NATO commit itself after the Cold War?

A) Let Russian troops remain in eastern Germany.
B) Maintain Ukrainian neutrality?
C) Not station troops permanently in former East bloc members of NATO.
D) Not permit any former Soviet republics to join NATO.

Question 28

What region of the former Yugoslavia became the scene of "ethnic cleansing" in 1992?

A) Bosnia.
B) Macedonia.
C) Serbia.
D) Kosovo.

Question 29

What region of the former Yugoslavia became the scene of NATO intervention in 1999?

A) Bosnia.
B) Macedonia.
C) Serbia.
D) Kosovo.

Question 30

Where did the single greatest massacre in Europe since World War II take place?

A) Tuzla.
B) Sarajevo.
C) Zepa.
D) Srebrenica.

Question 31

What former head of state was tried before an international court but died before the court handed down a verdict?

A) Augusto Pinochet.
B) Slobodan Milosevic
C) Eranio Tudman
D) Radovan Kradzic

Question 32

Where did a UN Security Council resolution for which Russia voted lead to the overthrow of a regime that Russia supported?

A) Bosnia.
B) Libya.
C) Syria.
D) Serbia.

Question 33

Which of the following countries formally proposed that Syria turn over its chemical weapons for them to be destroyed?

A) The United States.
B) Turkey.
C) Russia.
D) China.

Question 34

Where did NATO forces take the lead in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)?

A) Bosnia.
B) Syria.
C) Afghanistan.
D) Iraq.

Question 35

Which of the following was a former Soviet republic that joined NATO after the Cold War?

A) Estonia.
B) Poland.
C) The Czech Republic.
D) Hungary.

Question 36

Which of the following countries has states that it has no wish to join NATO?

A) Armenia.
B) Ukraine.
C) Bulgaria.
D) Montenegro.

Question 37

Who is Viktor Yanukovich?

A) A former president of Georgia.
B) A former pro-Russian president of Ukraine.
C) The current president of Georgia.
D) A former pro-Western president of Ukraine.

Question 38

In what city would you find Maidan Square?

A) Moscow.
B) Luhansk.
C) Odessa..
D) Kiev.

Question 39

Who was elected Ukraine's president in 2014?

A) Petro Poroshenko.
B) Leonid Kravchuk.
C) Leonid Kuchma.
D) Viktor Yushchenko.

Question 40

Where did the European Union Force (EURFOR) stationed to keep the peace?

A) Kosovo.
B) Ukraine.
C) Bosnia.
D) Mali.

Question 41

What is meant by the "German question"?

Question 42

Why did the Soviet Union not need a proletarian revolution to bring communists to power in Eastern Europe after World War II?

Question 43

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Question 44

What was the Communist Information Bureau Cominform?

Question 45

What was the strategy of "flexible response"?

Question 46

What was the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation, and Security?

Question 47

What was "Operation Active Endeavour"?

Question 48

What is a NATO Membership Action Plan?

Question 49

Who were known as "the Heavenly Hundred"?

Question 50

Which NATO members were most frightened by Russian aggression in Ukraine?

Question 51

The former German chancellor ___________ had pursued a "strategic partnership" with Russia, and he defended Putin's policy toward Ukraine, in his words, as resulting from "fears about being encircled."

Question 52

America's NSA listened in on phone conversations of German chancellor _____________.

Question 53

The European Union depends on imports of __________ natural gas.

Question 54

_______________ accounts for 41 percent of Russia's trade.

Question 55

Russia and Russia and _______ view construction of the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline as illegal owing to agreements requiring the approval of all countries bordering the Caspian Sea.

Question 56

____________ financial sector profits from investments by wealthy Russians in everything from bonds and property to private schools for Russian children.

Question 57

Russian leader _____________ was responsible for aggression against Ukraine.

Question 58

The group known as the ____________ negotiated with Iran regarded about thsat country's nuclear program.

Question 59

After __________ used chemical weapons in 2013 against its own citizens, France was prepared to join America in a military strike against its regime.

Question 60

Russia complained that it assented to the Security Council resolution regarding ________________ without realizing that the West would overthrow the regime.

Question 61

Serbia's Battle of Kosovo against _______________ was perceived as an epochal event in the country's history.

Question 62

The Republika Srpska is located in ________.

Question 63

There was considerable Western sympathy for _____________ because that country had been betrayed by Britain and France whose policy of "appeasement" peaked in the 1938 Munich agreement by which the country had been dismembered.

Question 64

At the __________________ it was agreed that a coalition government would be formed by merging Poland's Lublin and London groups followed by "free and unfettered elections."

Question 65

The German city of ____________ was divided into four occupation zones after World War II.