Deck 17: Extension 3: Focus On: Foreign Policy

Question 1

When a country uses shared ideas or values to get their way, instead of military power, they are utilizing __________ power.

A) hard
B) diplomatic
C) soft
D) intergovernmental

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which was an undeclared war by Congress?

A) Vietnam
B) World War I
C) World War II
D) The Civil War

Answer 2

A

Question 3

U.S. ambassadors to other countries are personally appointed by _________.

A) the Congress
B) the president
C) the Chief Joints of Staff
D) the Central Intelligence Agency

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following U.S. wars included a debate before the declaration?

A) the War of 1812
B) World War I
C) World War II
D) the Korean War

Question 5

Despite bipartisan criticism of Johnson's and Nixon's Vietnam war policy, __________.

A) the conflict did not end until 1970
B) Congress approved all expenditures
C) the War Powers Resolution failed in Congress
D) the United Nations rejected NATO

Question 6

Before the era of bombers and missiles, the U.S. goal of physical security was achieved through __________.

A) protecting the physical security of our neighbors
B) extending our sphere of influence
C) preventing land invasions
D) protecting the southern hemisphere's physical security

Question 7

Trade with the rest of the world accounts for about __________ percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP).

A) 10
B) 15
C) 25
D) 30

Question 8

A great example of protecting the physical security of our neighbors and allies include __________.

A) the Senate Foreign Affairs committee
B) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
C) avoiding land invasions through isolationism
D) establishing army bases abroad through soft power

Question 9

Of the many U.S. foreign policy goals, which is the most important?

A) economic security
B) security of neighbors and friends
C) physical security
D) extending our sphere of influence

Question 10

__________ is a piece of legislation intended to curb presidential authority.

A) The Great Society
B) The War Powers Resolution
C) The War Funding Clause
D) The Fourteen Points

Question 11

Which governmental entity has the constitutional ability to declare and fund war?

A) the president
B) Congress
C) the State Department
D) the Defense Department

Question 12

Who is in control of the nation's diplomatic and military establishments?

A) the Speaker of the House
B) the President of the Senate
C) the President of the United States
D) the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Question 13

France, the United Kingdom, and the United States going into Libya to support insurgents against Muammar Gaddafi is an example of __________.

A) protecting the physical security
B) protecting economic security
C) securing neighbors and allies
D) extending the sphere of influence

Question 14

What famous author claimed it is difficult to have a coherent foreign policy in a democracy?

A) John Locke
B) Alexis de Tocqueville
C) James Fenimore Cooper
D) Thomas Jefferson

Question 15

What term refers to secret funding spent annually on intelligence?

A) pork barrel funding
B) the black budget
C) secret spending
D) the black bank

Question 16

While no longer in an economic and military position to "go it alone," the nature of security threats demands __________.

A) presidential approval
B) isolationism
C) multilateral cooperation
D) the Council on Foreign Relations

Question 17

Some of the government officials best positioned to advise the president on foreign policy includes __________.

A) National Intelligence Agency
B) the Federal Reserve
C) the Attorney General
D) the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee

Question 18

NATO, coming out of the Cold War, consisted of military alliances meant to compete with __________.

A) Europe
B) China
C) the Soviet Union
D) the Vietnamese

Question 19

The U.S. Congress has declared war only __________ times.

A) three
B) five
C) seven
D) ten

Question 20

Economic, military and diplomatic information is gathered by __________ U.S. intelligence agencies.

A) 6
B) 10
C) 16
D) 23

Question 21

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev, the new general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, called for __________.

A) détente
B) a new thinking
C) Glasnost
D) a new world order

Question 22

Détente involved __________.

A) seeking nonconfrontational relations with the Soviets
B) isolating the United States from most foreign relations
C) focusing foreign policy on trade relations
D) renewed efforts at containment

Question 23

The deep hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century was called _________.

A) détente
B) the Cold War
C) the Iron Curtain
D) containment

Question 24

How can Congress check the authority of the president's foreign policy ventures, especially in regard to making war?

Question 25

Who was the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State?

A) Madeline Albright
B) Condoleezza Rice
C) Margaret Thatcher
D) Hillary Clinton

Question 26

The noninvolvement of the Unitied States in the affairs of other nations outside the Americas is also called __________.

A) isolationism
B) soft power
C) hard power
D) physical security

Question 27

The Monroe Doctrine in 1823 involved __________.

A) standing firm against Communist aggression
B) Salt I talks resolving Vietnam
C) the containment of the Vietcong
D) European powers limited in Latin America

Question 28

Armed intervention in South and North Vietnam began in 1964 with Congress passing __________.

A) the Great War Powers Act
B) the War Powers Resolution
C) the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
D) a declaration of war

Question 29

According to Bill Clinton, "the best foreign policy" involves what?

A) isolationism
B) a strong economy
C) the new world order
D) cooperation with the United Nations

Question 30

U.S. forces moving into Iraq in 2003 was considered what type of strategy?

A) isolationism.
B) preemptive war
C) multilateralism
D) mutual assured destruction

Question 31

To contain the Soviets within its existing sphere of influence, U.S. foreign policy makers utilized __________.

A) South Korea's sovereignty
B) North Korea's nuclear weapons program
C) mutual assured destruction
D) Communism

Question 32

Because Clinton's foreign policy was so rooted in the pursuit of national economic interests, some observers labeled it __________.

A) "merchant diplomacy"
B) "international peacekeeping"
C) "Keynesian policy"
D) "antimilitary diplomacy"

Question 33

Which officials are involved in the making American foreign policy?

Question 34

The nuclear era began in __________.

A) 1917
B) 1945
C) 1955
D) 1960

Question 35

U.S. war efforts may have failed in Vietnam because __________.

A) the United States did not have clear goals
B) U.S. strategists misinterpreted data on the war
C) the war was central to America's national interest
D) the United States was betrayed by Europeans who refused to provide military support

Question 36

The idea that the United States can strike first if there is a perceived threat against its interests is __________.

A) preemption
B) the Powell Doctrine
C) the Truman Doctrine
D) the Vietnam syndrome

Question 37

Although the interest groups and Democrats in Congress did not support NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), it was supported by President __________.

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

Question 38

President Johnson asked Congress to justify intervention in Vietnam with __________.

A) a declaration of war
B) the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
C) the War Powers Act
D) the Vietnam Liberation Act

Question 39

The first cultural exchange between China and the United States in the twentieth century occurred during __________.

A) a visit from President Carter
B) a table tennis match
C) the 1980 Olympics
D) the Yalta Conference

Question 40

The U.S. isolationist ideal lapsed briefly at the beginning of the twentieth century with our involvement in which war?

A) the Spanish-American War
B) the Russo-Japanese War
C) World War I
D) the American Civil War

Question 41

How did the international system change after the fall of the Soviet Union?

Question 42

What is the policy of containment?

Question 43

What were the main lessons of the Vietnam War for the United States?

Question 44

Given the course of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy, is the United States more isolationist or internationalist?

Question 45

What is the "Arab Spring" and how is it related to U.S. foreign policy?

Question 46

How did Henry Kissinger's policy of détente work? Could it still be utilized today?

Question 47

How does Congress impact foreign policy?

Question 48

Briefly compare Nixon's and Clinton's views on foreign policy.

Question 49

How is the United States still facing challenges in the global era? How have our relations with China and the Middle East strengthened or weakened?

Question 50

How has globalization changed U.S. foreign policy? What challenges might be in the future?

Question 51

Why have economic instruments of foreign policy become so important? How effective are trade and foreign aid in addressing foreign policy goals?

Question 52

Compare and contrast the foreign policy of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.