PLEASE AND PLEASE do not feel like you have to answer all of them, just answer the ones you’re certain about. this is past exam for my poli sci class but i just want to see if anyone picked the answers i did to be certain THANK YOU
1.The last major speech in defense of going to war against Iraq portrayed in the video The War Behind Closed Doors was made by
a)Colin Powell
b)Condoleezza Rice
c)Donald Rumsfeld
d)Dick Cheney
2.The CNN cold war episode “Backyard: 1954-1990” began with a discussion of United States foreign policy toward
a)Cuba
b)Nicaragua
c)Guatemala
d)Chile
3.By the year 2000, this country was the target of almost daily bombings. The country’s economy was about 25% the level of twenty years earlier. The United Nations estimated that 500,000 children had died because of malnutrition and disease brought on by economic sanctions. UN weapons inspectors, who left the country in 1998, were pretty sure that few if any weapons of mass destruction still existed in the country. Which country was this?
a)Palestine
b)Iran
c)Iraq
d)Somalia
4The “regionalists” and the “globalists” were in competition to influence the foreign policy of which president?
a)Jimmy Carter
b)Ronald Reagan
c)George W. Bush
d)Bill Clinton
5According to Targ the most fundamental interest governing the foreign policy of Bill Clinton was
a)defeating rogue states
b)transforming failed states
c)promoting market democracies
d)combating terrorism
6. The Department of Defense developed military plans to respond to “the arc of instability” in which administration?
a)Ronald Reagan
b)George H.W. Bush
c)Bill Clinton
d)George W. Bush
7“Neo-conservatives” have dominated the policy making process of the administration of
a)Ronald Reagan
b)George Herbert Walker Bush
c)George W. Bush
d)None of the Above
8In the 1980s United States foreign policy toward Central America involved
a)supporting the government of Nicaragua which was fighting against a guerrilla army and supporting guerrillas fighting against the government of El Salvador
b)supporting guerrillas fighting against the governments of Nicaragua and
El Salvador
c)supporting the governments of Nicaragua and El Salvador threatened by communists guerrillas
d)supporting the government of El Salvador and guerrillas fighting against the government of Nicaragua
9The video on the Gulf War indicated that the
a)civilians in the Bush administration were for war against Iraq and the military opposed it
b)civilians in the Bush Administration were against war with Iraq while the military lobbied for the war
c)civilians and the military in the Bush administration were opposed to war against Iraq but public pressure for war led to the first Gulf War
d)Secretary of Defense was opposed to war with Iraq but he was overruled by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
10Which president declared the “Vietnam Syndrome” ended?
a)Carter after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
b)Reagan after the US invasion of Grenada
c)Bush after the Gulf War came to an end
d)Clinton after the Yugoslavian government agreed to end its war on Kosovo
11.During Reagan’s second term a scandal emerged when it was disclosed that Reagan aides
a)leaked information about a CIA agent working in Washington
b)had been advising rebels fighting against the government of Nicaragua
c)sold arms to Iran and used the money to illegally fund the rebels fighting against Nicaragua
d)secretly funded President Gorbachev’s reforms in the former Soviet Union
12. Targ believes that the most critical element leading to the reduction of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s was
a)United States victories in wars in Nicaragua and Angola and the successful invasion of Grenada
b)the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union with a new peace agenda
c)President Reagan’s deep commitment to ending the Cold War
d)United Nations intervention in the conflict
13.Low Intensity Conflict was a political/military doctrine that called for the United States to
a)send small contingents of US troops to several trouble spots around the world
b)emphasize diplomacy over the threat of force
c)avoid sending US troops to fight against communist regimes by supporting rebels with military aid and training from these countries who share US interests
d)none of the above
14.Events in 1979 led the United States to return to Cold War policies. These events occurred in the following order:
a)the Iranian Revolution occurred in January, the Nicaraguan revolution was completed in July, the former ruler of Iran was admitted to the United States for medical treatment in October, US hostages were taken in Iran in November, and in December the Soviet Union sent 85,000 troops to save its beleaguered ally in Afghanistan.
b)the Soviet Union sent troops to Afghanistan in January, 1979, then the Iranian