Deck 14: America and Russia: Values Versus Power

Question 1

Which of the following was the central aim of the Nunn-Lugar program?

A) Enhancing security at Russian nuclear sites.
B) Modernizing America's strategic nuclear weapons.
C) Eliminating both U.S. and American intermediate-range missiles.
D) Exporting technology for the peaceful use of nuclear power.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Who was Russia's president before Vladimir Putin?

A) Mikhail Gorbachev.
B) Nikita S. Khrushchev.
C) Boris Yeltsin.
D) Dmitry Medvedev.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Who was Russia's president after Putin had been president for two terms?

A) Mikhail Gorbachev.
B) Nikita S. Khrushchev.
C) Boris Yeltsin.
D) Dmitry Medvedev.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Who wrote a book entitled "Thirteen Days" about the Cuban missile crisis?

A) Robert Kennedy.
B) Robert McNamara.
C) Dean Rusk.
D) Theodore Sorensen.

Question 5

Who wished to "strangle Bolshevism at birth"?

A) Harry Truman.
B) Dean Acheson.
C) Joseph McCarthy.
D) Winston Churchill.

Question 6

According to President Truman, why did he decide to respond militarily to North Korea's invasion of South Korea in 1950?

A) His experience as a solider in World War I.
B) His mistrust of Stalin who had violated agreements made at Potsdam.
C) His memory of appeasement during the 1930s.
D) His dislike of Marxism-Leninism.

Question 7

Which of the following U.S. politicians thought it possible to maintain U.S.-Soviet friendship after World War II?

A) Henry Wallace.
B) Dean Acheson.
C) Harry Truman.
D) George

Question 8

What event began the process that ended the Cold War?

A) The fall of the Berlin Wall.
B) The reunification of Germany.
C) The flight of East Germans to the West via Hungary.
D) The collapse of the communist regime in Rumania.

Question 9

What event in 1990 witnessed U.S.-Soviet cooperation?

A) The overthrow of Iran's shah by Ayatollah Khomeini.
B) Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
C) Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
D) Famine in Somalia.

Question 10

In speaking of Russia, which of the following declared, "Yeltsin drunk is better than most of the alternatives sober"?

A) Bill Clinton.
B) Ronald Reagan.
C) George H. W. Bush.
D) George W. Bush.

Question 11

Where did Russia experience an Islamic insurrection?

A) Dagestan.
B) Ingushetia.
C) Azerbaijan.
D) Chechnya.

Question 12

Who looked President Putin "the eye" and "found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy"?

A) Bill Clinton.
B) Angela Merkel.
C) George W. Bush.
D) David Cameron.

Question 13

Who presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a red button that read "Reset" in English?

A) Hillary Clinton.
B) Bill Clinton.
C) John Kerry.
D) Leon Panetta.

Question 14

Which of the following reflected U.S.-Russian cooperation?

A) The capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
B) Supplying U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
C) Locating Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
D) Providing logistical support to UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Question 15

Which of the following Soviet republics inherited Soviet nuclear weapons after the USSR collapsed?

A) Armenia.
B) Uzbekistan.
C) Kazakhstan.
D) Kyrgyzstan.

Question 16

Which of the following agreements marked a high point in U.S.-Russian cooperation?

A) The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
B) START II.
C) The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
D) The New START Treaty.

Question 17

Which of the following agreements was abrogated by the United States?

A) The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
B) START II.
C) The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
D) The New START Treaty.

Question 18

Which of the following agreements did Russia violate?

A) The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
B) START II.
C) The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
D) The New START Treaty.

Question 19

Which of the following countries purchased large amounts of Russian arms in recent years?

A) Syria.
B) Jordan.
C) South Africa.
D) Hungary.

Question 20

What did Russia object to as a precondition for talks with the U.S. about the future of Syria?

A) That ISIS should first be defeated in Syria and Iraq.
B) That Bashar al-Assad resign as president.
C) That Hezbollah leave Syria.
D) That Syria cease using barrel bombs against civilians.

Question 21

Which of the following countries does Russia regard as an "historic ally"?

A) Slovakia.
B) Serbia.
C) Slovenia.
D) Macedonia.

Question 22

What did Charles Kupchan refer to as "NATO's final frontier"?

A) Ukraine.
B) Georgia.
C) Poland.
D) Russia.

Question 23

Which of the following experienced the "Rose Revolution"?

A) Ukraine.
B) Belorus.
C) Kyrgyzstan.
D) Georgia.

Question 24

Which of the following experienced the "Orange Revolution"?

A) Ukraine.
B) Belorus.
C) Kyrgyzstan.
D) Georgia.

Question 25

What area did Russia annex from Ukraine?

A) Odessa.
B) Luhansk.
C) Crimea.
D) Donetsk.

Question 26

In which of the following countries was Mikheil Saakashvili president?

A) Ukraine.
B) Georgia.
C) Armenia.
D) Azerbaijan.

Question 27

How did Washington aid Georgia in its 2008 war with Russia?

A) It dispatched Special Forces to Georgia.
B) It sought to deter a Russian attack on Georgia.
C) It provided Georgia with arms.
D) It provided verbal support for Georgia.

Question 28

Why did the United States wish to deploy an anti-missile defense in Central Europe?

A) To protect against an Iranian attack.
B) To maintain the system of "mutual assured destruction" with Russia.
C) To respond to Russia aggression against Ukraine.
D) To deter a Russian attack against Poland or the Czech Republic.

Question 29

What did the Senate's Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification of the New START treaty explicitly prohibit?

A) Legal limitations on missile defense without its consent.
B) The dispatch of arms to Ukraine without its consent.
C) Any arms control agreement with Russia without simultaneous modernization of America's nuclear force.
D) Any arms control agreement with Russia without onsite inspections.

Question 30

From what group was Russia suspended after its aggression against Ukraine?

A) The G-8.
B) The G-7.
C) The OSCE.
D) The G-20.

Question 31

In confronting Ukraine which of the following did Moscow demand?

A) Russification.
B) Federalization.
C) Centralization.
D) Ethnic separation.

Question 32

Where are pro-Russian elements in Ukraine largely located?

A) Northwest.
B) Southeast.
C) Southwest.
D) All of the above.

Question 33

What U.S. company has invested $7 billion in Russia that it planned to increase to $27 billion by 2021?

A) Coca-Cola.
B) Microsoft.
C) Boeing.
D) Google.

Question 34

What excuse did Washington provide for cancelling the last of its plan for European missile defense phase to save money?

A) North Korea's growing nuclear threat to the United States.
B) Russia's nuclear modernization program.
C) Poland's objection to anti-ballistic missiles on its soil.
D) The promise of a new arms control treaty with Russia.

Question 35

What U.S. political scientist argues that American lack of concern for Russian interests and Washington's effort to export liberal values were responsible for the Ukraine crisis?

A) Robert Jervis.
B) Stephen Walt.
C) John Mearsheimer.
D) Robert J. Art.

Question 36

Which of the following increased U.S. influence in relation to Russia.

A) Growing U.S. oil and gas production.
B) The large-scale buildup of U.S. troop strength in Europe.
C) The proliferation of Russians protesting against President Putin.
D) Western military aid to Ukraine.

Question 37

Which of the following companies was forced to sell its assets to Russia in 2006?

A) Exxon-Mobil.
B) Pepsi Cola.
C) FaceBook.
D) Shell Oil.

Question 38

Which of the following did Washington obtain in the New START Treaty with Russia?

A) The right to go forward with a revised version of its plan for missile defense in Europe.
B) The right to place intermediate nuclear missiles in Great Britain.
C) The right to modernize America's nuclear arsenal.
D) The right to onsite inspections of Russia's military installations.

Question 39

Which of the following prompted President Obama to cancel a scheduled summit meeting with President Putin?

A) Russian willingness to grant asylum to Edward Snowden.
B) A Russian cyber-attack on the Pentagon.
C) Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territory.
D) A Russian law prohibiting Americans from adopting Russian children.

Question 40

What was the Nuclear Freeze Movement?

Question 41

What territories seceded from Georgia with Russian aid?

Question 42

What was the U.S.-European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA)?

Question 43

What did Russia demand of the United States before approving U.S. proposals for missile defense in Europe?

Question 44

What is Rosneft?

Question 45

What is a "frozen conflict"?

Question 46

Who was Sergei Magnitsky?

Question 47

Who was the Soviet Union's leader at the height of the Cold War?

Question 48

What Soviet leader triggered the Cuban missile crisis?

Question 49

Who popularized the term "Iron Curtain"?

Question 50

______________ was the Soviet leader who actions played a major role in ending the Cold War.

Question 51

Former CIA Director and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates noted, "The Russians felt they had been played for suckers on ____________. They felt there had been a bait and switch."

Question 52

Secretary of State John Kerry, when asked what _____________ could do to avoid a U.S. attack, had answered, "He could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week."

Question 53

In signing the 1994 ________________ on Security Assurance for Ukraine which Moscow guaranteed Ukrainian sovereignty.

Question 54

Masked soldiers in Ukraine without identifying insignia were known as _________________

Question 55

____________ is Russia's state-controlled natural gas company.

Question 56

____________ was characterized by Secretary Clinton as an attempt to "re-Sovietize" areas formerly part of the USSR.

Question 57

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic ________________ has descended across the Continent."

Question 58

Nikita Khrushchev and ___________ recognized a common interest in avoiding nuclear disaster and began negotiating confidence-building and arms-control agreements to reduce tension.

Question 59

In 1979 Pope John Paul spoke of ____________ in a speech in Warsaw and encouraged Poland's worker movement.

Question 60

The Nuclear Freeze Movement peaked during the first term of _____________ presidency.

Question 61

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russian President Boris Yeltsin established _________________, a loose grouping of 12 of the 15 newly independent countries.

Question 62

President Clinton employed _____________ pressing Russia to adopt policies that "Washington deemed healthy, no matter how unappetizing these policies seemed in Moscow."

Question 63

In 1994, Russian troops entered ___________ to end its secession.

Question 64

___________ was a pragmatic effort to renew cooperation after U.S.-Russian relations had deteriorated between 2007 and 2009.