Poly Sci 16

Front 1

____ is a systematic and general plan that guides a country’s attitudes and actions toward the rest of the world.
a. Foreign policy
b. Collective security
c. Containment
d. Domestic policy
e. Interventionism

Back 1

A

Front 2

As ____, the president oversees the military and guides defense policies.
a. head of state
b. chief executive
c. commander in chief
d. chief diplomat
e. chief legislator

Back 2

C

Front 3

The secretaries of ____concern themselves with foreign policy matters on a full-time basis.
a. agriculture and defense
b. commerce and state
c. state and defense
d. treasury and defense
e. treasury and energy

Back 3

C

Front 4

The ____is, in principle, the government agency most directly involved in foreign policy.
a. Department of Defense
b. Central Intelligence Agency
c. Department of State
d. Department of Homeland Security
e. National Security Council

Back 4

C

Front 5

The ____ is the principal executive department that establishes and carries out defense policy and protects our national security.
a. Department of Defense
b. Central Intelligence Agency
c. Department of State
d. National Security Council
e. Executive Office of the President

Back 5

A

Front 6

The Joint Chiefs of Staff include the
a. president, the president’s chief of staff, and the vice president.
b. director of the Central Intelligence Agency and secretary of homeland security.
c. secretaries of state and defense.
d. chief of staff of the Army, the chief of staff of the Air Force, the chief of naval operations, and the commandant of the Marine Corps.
e. White House chief of staff and the chief of staff to the vice president.

Back 6

D

Front 7

Who is not a formal member of the National Security Council?
a. The attorney general
b. The vice president
c. The secretary of state
d. The president
e. The secretary of defense

Back 7

A

Front 8

The ____ was created after World War II to coordinate American intelligence activities abroad.
a. National Security Council
b. The Joint Chiefs of Staff
c. Department of State
d. Central Intelligence Agency
e. Department of Homeland Security

Back 8

D

Front 9

The power to declare war belongs to
a. the president.
b. Congress.
c. the president and Congress under a joint consent agreement.
d. the National Security Council.
e. the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Back 9

B

Front 10

The War Powers Resolution
a. grants to the president the power to declare war.
b. limits the role of Congress in formally declaring war.
c. grants unlimited power to the president to send troops into other nations.
d. limits the president’s use of troops in military action without congressional approval.
e. gives the president the power to engage in a preventive war.

Back 10

D

Front 11

The nation’s founders and the early presidents believed that a policy of ____ was the best way to protect American interests.
a. aggression
b. containment
c. interventionism
d. isolationism
e. moral idealism

Back 11

D

Front 12

In his Farewell Address in 1797, ____ urged Americans to “steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”
a. George Washington
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. James Monroe
d. James Madison
e. John Quincy Adams

Back 12

A

Front 13

The policy of the Monroe Doctrine was that the United States would not tolerate foreign intervention in ____, and in return, the United States would stay out of European affairs.
a. Vietnam
b. the Western Hemisphere
c. the Eastern Hemisphere
d. the Philippines or Turkey
e. Israel

Back 13

B

Front 14

The Monroe Doctrine buttressed the policy of isolationism toward
a. Europe.
b. Africa.
c. Latin America.
d. Asia.
e. Russia.

Back 14

A

Front 15

The proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 was most clearly a statement of
a. interventionism.
b. containment.
c. isolationism.
d. collective security.
e. mutually assured destruction.

Back 15

C

Front 16

The first true step the United States took toward interventionism occurred with
a. the Spanish-American War of 1898.
b. the Civil War.
c. World War I.
d. the Seven Years’ War.
e. the War of 1812.

Back 16

A

Front 17

The United States fought the Spanish-American War of 1898 to free Cuba from Spanish rule. Spain lost and subsequently ceded control of several of its possessions, including Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, to
a. Cuba.
b. Portugal.
c. Mexico.
d. the United States.
e. Britain

Back 17

D

Front 18

As a result of the Spanish-American War of 1898,
a. the United States acquired a colonial empire.
b. Puerto Rico became an independent country.
c. the Philippines became an independent country.
d. Guam became an independent country.
e. the United States was no longer acknowledged as a world power.

Back 18

A

Front 19

Direct involvement by one country in another country’s affairs best defines
a. containment.
b. collective security.
c. interventionism.
d. political realism.
e. détente.

Back 19

C

Front 20

When World War I broke out, President Woodrow Wilson initially proclaimed a policy of
a. interventionism.
b. containment.
c. collective security.
d. mutually assured destruction.
e. neutrality.

Back 20

E

Front 21

The United States did not enter World War I until 1917, after
a. U.S. ships in international waters were attacked by German submarines that were blockading Britain.
b. U.S. ships in international waters were attacked by Japanese submarines that were blockading Britain.
c. Russia invaded Germany.
d. Japan invaded France.
e. Italy attacked Austria-Hungary.

Back 21

A

Front 22

Woodrow Wilson called World War I a way to
a. “drop the iron curtain.”
b. “make the world safe for democracy.”
c. “protect the world from evil.”
d. “establish the supremacy of the United States in the world.”
e. “bring liberty and justice to all.”

Back 22

B

Front 23

Woodrow Wilson was our most famous presidential advocate of
a. moral idealism.
b. détente.
c. mutually assured destruction.
d. antiterrorism.
e. the “Arab Spring.”

Back 23

A

Front 24

After World War I ended, the United States returned to a policy of isolationism. That lasted only until the
a. U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
b. Nazi invasion of Poland.
c. Cuban missile crisis.
d. Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
e. terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Back 24

D

Front 25

One of the most significant foreign policy actions during World War II was the dropping of atomic bombs on two cities in
a. Germany.
b. China.
c. Italy.
d. Japan.
e. the Soviet Union.

Back 25

D

Front 26

The phrase “iron curtain”
a. was used to describe the period of détente between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
b. was used to describe the U.S. naval blockade of Cuba after it was discovered that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear weapons on the island.
c. refers to the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
d. was coined by President Woodrow Wilson to describe his view that Germany was not merely dangerous but evil, and that we needed to place an iron curtain around that country to “make the world safe for democracy.”
e. was coined by Winston Churchill to describe the political boundaries between the democratic countries in Western Europe and the Soviet-controlled Communist countries in Eastern Europe.

Back 26

E

Front 27

The Marshall Plan became part of a policy to prevent the spread of communism across
a. Europe.
b. Latin America.
c. Africa.
d. Asia.
e. Canada.

Back 27

A

Front 28

The Marshall Plan
a. was a policy of building up military strength for the purpose of discouraging military attacks by other nations.
b. focused on the formation of mutual defense alliances with other nations.
c. put in place a program of mutually assured destruction.
d. was directed towards negotiating treaties to limit the number of antiballistic missiles that the United States and the Soviet Union could develop.
e. was a policy of U.S. economic assistance to European nations following World War II to help those nations recover from the war.

Back 28

E

Front 29

Actions taken under the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan marked the beginning of a policy of
a. interventionism.
b. deterrence.
c. neutrality.
d. containment.
e. mutually assured destruction.

Back 29

D

Front 30

To make the policy of containment effective, the United States initiated a program of ____ involving the formation of mutual defense alliances with other nations.
a. interventionism
b. deterrence
c. neutrality
d. collective security
e. mutually assured destruction

Back 30

D

Front 31

An attack on any member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
a. automatically results in trade embargoes.
b. is considered an attack against all members.
c. provokes a nuclear response.
d. automatically results in a preventive war.
e. results in détente.

Back 31

B

Front 32

By 1949, almost all illusions of friendship between the Soviet Union and the Western allies had disappeared. The tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States became known as the
a. Trojan War.
b. War to end War.
c. War of the Worlds.
d. Great War.
e. Cold War.

Back 32

E

Front 33

In ____, Soviet-dominated East Germany constructed the Berlin Wall.
a. 1949
b. 1953
c. 1961
d. 1989
e. 1992

Back 33

C

Front 34

The wars in Korea (1950–1953) and Vietnam (1964–1975) grew out of the efforts to contain
a. state-sponsored terrorism.
b. the European Union.
c. the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
d. communism.
e. foreign terrorist networks.

Back 34

D

Front 35

____ is a policy of building up military strength for the purpose of discouraging military attacks by other nations.
a. Containment
b. Détente
c. Deterrence
d. Interventionism
e. Terrorism

Back 35

C

Front 36

The arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War was supported by a policy of
a. neutrality.
b. isolationism.
c. deterrence.
d. interventionism.
e. moral idealism.

Back 36

C

Front 37

The theory of ____, came out of the policy of deterrence. It held that if the forces of two nations were equally capable of destroying each other, neither nation would take a chance on war.
a. collective security
b. isolationism
c. containment
d. mutually assured destruction
e. détente

Back 37

D

Front 38

In 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came close to a nuclear confrontation in what became known as
a. “Star Wars.”
b. the Cuban missile crisis.
c. SALT I.
d. the Guantanamo invasion.
e. the Bay of Pigs.

Back 38

B

Front 39

In 1962, the United States and ____ came close to a nuclear confrontation in what became known as the Cuban missile crisis.
a. Turkey
b. North Korea
c. Greece
d. East Germany
e. the Soviet Union

Back 39

E

Front 40

The word détente means
a. “war is evil.”
b. “relaxation of tensions.”
c. “terrorism.”
d. “destruction.”
e. “free world.”

Back 40

B

Front 41

In ____ the Berlin Wall was torn down.
a. 1945
b. 1962
c. 1980
d. 1989
e. 1991

Back 41

D

Front 42

By the end of ____ the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) no longer existed.
a. 1949
b. 1963
c. 1972
d. 1983
e. 1991

Back 42

E

Front 43

Al Qaeda is best described as a
a. local terrorist group.
b. coalition.
c. nonstate terrorist network.
d. mutual defense alliance.
e. state-sponsored terrorist network.

Back 43

C

Front 44

In late 2001, supported by a coalition of allies, the U.S. military attacked al Qaeda camps in
a. Afghanistan.
b. Iraq.
c. Saudi Arabia.
d. Iran.
e. Pakistan.

Back 44

A

Front 45

In 2002, President George W. Bush described ____ as a regime that sponsored terrorism and that sought to develop weapons of mass destruction. In 2003, United States and British forces entered that country.
a. Afghanistan
b. Iraq
c. North Korea
d. Iran
e. Syria

Back 45

B

Front 46

The phrase weapons of mass destruction refers to
a. armored divisions and tank battalions.
b. Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
c. chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons.
d. amphibious assault vehicles.
e. landmines and cluster munitions.

Back 46

C

Front 47

In 2002, President Bush stated, in what became known as the “Bush Doctrine,” that
a. the neoconservatives were wrong; the United States should not be engaged in efforts to bring democracy to other countries.
b. the United States would withdraw troops from Iraq as soon as Saddam Hussein was captured.
c. the United States would increase troop levels in Iraq in a program known as the “surge.”
d. North Korea and Iran would have to end their nuclear programs or risk invasion by the United States in a preventive war.
e. the United States was prepared to strike “preemptively” at Iraq.

Back 47

E

Front 48

President George W. Bush’s Iraq policies were bolstered by the philosophy of
a. neoconservatism.
b. deterrence.
c. neoliberalism.
d. libertarianism.
e. isolationism.

Back 48

A

Front 49

By 2006, the ____ had regrouped and were waging a war of insurgency against the new government in Afghanistan.
a. Sunnis
b. Palestinian refugees
c. Taliban
d. Shiite radicals
e. Kurds

Back 49

C

Front 50

For many years after Israel was founded in 1948,
a. the Taliban was in control of the Holy Land.
b. Saddam Hussein ruled the country as a dictator.
c. it lived in peace with its neighbors in the Middle East.
d. the neighboring Arab states did not accept its legitimacy as a nation.
e. the only peace treaty that it was able to negotiate was one with Syria.

Back 50

D

Front 51

After the 1967 war, the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip fell under the control of
a. Israel.
b. Egypt.
c. Lebanon.
d. Jordan.
e. the Palestinian Authority.

Back 51

A

Front 52

The Oslo Accords, the first agreement between Israel and ____, were signed in 1993.
a. the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
b. Egypt
c. Lebanon
d. Jordan
e. Syria

Back 52

A

Front 53

Today, concerns about nuclear proliferation are centered on
a. Britain and France.
b. China.
c. Israel.
d. Japan.
e. North Korea and Iran.

Back 53

E

Front 54

The U.S. government granted China permanent ____ (NTR) status in 2000.
a. normal trade relations
b. national trade reservation
c. no trade remediation
d. no tariff records
e. normal trade recommendation

Back 54

A

Front 55

In 2010, the U.S. trade deficit with China hit $ ____ billion.
a. 12
b. 34
c. 67
d. 194
e. 273

Back 55

E