Deck 8: Foreign Policy

Question 1

What is "American exceptionalism" concerned with?

A) Persecution
B) One Nation under God
C) E pluribus unum
D) Superiority
E) Isolation

Answer 1

D
Explanation: This is the belief that America offers the world a better form of society characterized by the US version of a republican form of government, economic and political freedom, egalitarian social relations, and democracy.

Question 2

How would you characterize President Trump's "America first" approach to foreign policy?

A) Isolationist
B) Reactionary
C) Multilateralist
D) Expansionist
E) Interventionist

Answer 2

A
Explanation: He felt that previous presidents had badly bungled foreign relations and left the country open to exploitation. As a result, he withdrew from several multilateral agreements.

Question 3

How would you summarize the aims of US foreign policy in the early 19th century?

A) Expansionist
B) Unilateralist
C) Neutralist
D) Pro-French
E) Pro-British

Answer 3

B,C
Explanation: See the Farewell Address of George Washington. The 1823 Monroe Doctrine shifted the American policy of neutrality to isolationism and combined it with the American sense of exceptionalism.

Question 4

With which issues was the Monroe Doctrine concerned?

A) US acceptance of remaining colonies in North America
B) Non-intervention in North American affairs by European powers
C) British withdrawal from North America
D) Spanish surrender of its remaining North American colonies
E) No new colonization in the Americas

Question 5

To what did "Manifest Destiny" refer?

A) One Nation under God
B) Protecting the American continent
C) Driving out the British from North America
D) Consolidating the Protestant religion in the US
E) The expansion of the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Question 6

How was US influence over Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam Island, and the Philippine Islands acquired?

A) By purchase from Spain
B) By negotiation with Spain
C) Through war with Spain
D) By exchanging some Pacific islands for them
E) Through guaranteeing the independence of Mexico

Question 7

What was the "Roosevelt Corollary"?

A) A warning to Venezuela
B) A threat to invade Mexico
C) A declaration of war on Columbia
D) A revision to the Monroe Doctrine
E) A promise to fund the construction of the Panama Canal

Question 8

What organization resulted from Woodrow Wilson's proposals for collective security?

A) United Nations
B) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
C) South East Asia Treaty Organization
D) Society of Friends
E) League of Nations

Question 9

What was the result of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor?

A) It united the American people in a commitment to war
B) Congress declared war on all the axis powers
C) Britain agreed to support the US
D) The US withdrew from the League of Nations
E) Japan was kicked out of the Axis

Question 10

The Truman Doctrine asked for funds to fight communism in...

A) Italy and France
B) China and Japan
C) Turkey and Greece
D) Spain and Portugal
E) Germany and Denmark

Question 11

Name two countries where the US did not intervene to protect the populations from Communist aggression during the Cold War

A) Greece
B) Hungary
C) Portugal
D) Spain
E) Czechoslovakia

Question 12

What was McCarthyism concerned with?

A) Exceptionalism
B) European intervention in Latin America
C) The Iran-Contra affair
D) Americans involved in "un-American" activities
E) Containment

Question 13

Which three states were described by President George W. Bush as th "axis of evil" in 2002?

A) Greece, Turkey, and Portugal
B) Russian Federation, China, and Japan
C) Iraq, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia
D) China, Yemen, and Afghanistan
E) Iran, Iraq, and North Korea

Question 14

Critically evaluate the degree to which US foreign policy is (or has been) distinct from that of other nations.

Question 15

Describe the institutional structures in America's foreign policy establishment and critically discuss how well they serve as a basis for the formulation of the nation's foreign policy.

Question 16

What formal structures exist to support US-Israel relations and how would you describe the development of US-Israel relations in recent years?

Question 17

Outline US involvement in the Summit of the Americas process. How do you interpret US policies toward Central and South America in the light of its participation in these summit meetings?