The American Democracy, 10th Edition (Patterson)

Chapter 17: Foreign Policy: Protecting the American Way

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
________ was the most costly application of the containment doctrine.
A)Vietnam
B)Iraq
C)Korea
D)Grenada
E)Panama
2
________ visited the People's Republic of China in 1972.
A)Lyndon Johnson
B)John McCain
C)Richard Nixon
D)Ronald Reagan
E)Jimmy Carter
3
Which of the following statements is true?
A)From the end of World War II until 1989-1991, the world was bipolar.
B)The unilateralism that characterized U.S. foreign policy following the end of the cold war was replaced with multilateralism after the difficulties in the Iraq War.
C)From the end of World War II until 1989-1991, the world was bipolar; now it has a unipolar structure.
D)The world has a bipolar structure today.
E)President Obama has been a strong supporter of the preemptive war doctrine.
4
________ called for a "new world order."
A)Ronald Reagan
B)George H. W. Bush
C)Bill Clinton
D)George W. Bush
E)Colin Powell
5
________ launched the preemptive war doctrine in the United States.
A)Bill Clinton
B)Harry Truman
C)Lyndon Johnson
D)Ronald Reagan
E)George W. Bush
6
Which one of the following was essentially an act of unilateralism?
A)Afghanistan in 2002
B)the intervention in the Balkans and Kosovo in 1999
C)the attack on Serbia in 1995
D)the Iraq War of 2003
E)None of these answers is correct.
7
America's trade deficit with China surpasses ________ annually.
A)$250 billion
B)$150 billion
C)$50 billion
D)$25 billion
E)$2 billion
8
President ________ warned against the military-industrial complex in his farewell address.
A)George Washington
B)Woodrow Wilson
C)Franklin D. Roosevelt
D)Dwight Eisenhower
E)Ronald Reagan
9
Which of the following is true about global economics today?
A)The United States represents the only major economic center.
B)The world has two major economic centers.
C)The world has three major economic centers
D)Power is widely decentralized.
E)None of these answers is correct.
10
The United States
A)spends the most on foreign aid in dollar terms, but several countries spend more on a per capita basis.
B)spends the most on foreign aid on a per capita basis, but several countries spend more in dollar terms.
C)spends the most on foreign aid in dollar terms and on a per capita basis.
D)spends less on foreign aid in dollar terms and on a per capita basis than several countries.
E)None of these answers is correct.
11
After the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Eastern Europe in 1989,
A)Serbian forces moved into Kosovo in an ethnic cleansing campaign.
B)the Soviet hardliners removed Gorbachev from power.
C)the Soviet Union cracked down on its non-European provinces.
D)Gorbachev began his policy of perestroika.
E)nearly all of the Soviet republics declared their independence within two years.
12
The European Recovery Plan is better known as the
A)Marshall Plan.
B)Truman Doctrine.
C)Eisenhower Doctrine.
D)Dulles Doctrine.
E)Carter Plan.
13
The United States last had a trade surplus in ________.
A)1941
B)1960
C)1975
D)1991
E)1999
14
________ is the idea that major nations should act together in response to problems and crises.
A)Unilateralism
B)Containment
C)Détente
D)Multilateralism
E)United front
15
Which of the following is true of the U.S. as an economic center, in comparison with the other two major world economic centers (Europe and the Pacific Rim)?
A)It has the smallest trade deficit of the three centers.
B)Its economy is the second-most competitive among the three centers, according to the World Economic Forum.
C)Its economy is more diversified than the other two centers.
D)The U.S. exports more goods to Europe than it imports, but imports more goods from the Pacific Rim than it exports.
E)Of the three centers, the U.S. has the least well-developed higher education system.
16
In 1990 President Bush obtained UN resolutions
A)ordering Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait and authorizing the use of force if it did not.
B)ordering Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, but these did not authorize the use of force if Iraq did not withdraw.
C)authorizing more severe sanctions on Iraq if it did not withdraw from Kuwait.
D)authorizing military action against Iraq if it did not share oil revenues captured in Kuwait with other countries in the region.
E)demanding that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait, but without any specification of follow-up actions.
17
The U.S. Army has roughly
A)one million regular troops and more than 300,000 Reserve and National Guard soldiers.
B)300,000 regular troops and more than 100,000 Reserve and National Guard soldiers.
C)500,000 regular troops and more than 300,000 Reserve and National Guard soldiers.
D)800,000 regular troops and more than 500,000 Reserve and National Guard soldiers.
E)200,000 regular troops and more than 300,000 Reserve and National Guard soldiers.
18
The Korean War resulted in the loss of ________ American lives.
A)1,000
B)5,000
C)12,000
D)35,000
E)500,000
19
The Soviet Union leader that implemented perestroika was
A)Boris Yeltsin.
B)Joseph Stalin.
C)Nikita Khrushchev.
D)Leonid Brezhnev.
E)Mikhail Gorbachev.
20
Eight months into his presidency, Barack Obama unilaterally scrapped President Bush's plan to
A)dramatically reduce U.S. tariffs against foreign imports.
B)increase the number of troops deployed to Afghanistan.
C)become a member of the International Criminal Court.
D)build a land-based missile shield in Eastern Europe.
E)sign a renewal of the SALT treaty with Russia.
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