Exam 14: Power Among Nations

To implement the containment policy against Russian expansive tendencies, the United States initiated the __________ to rebuild the economies of Western European nations to make them less susceptible to communist subversion and Soviet intimidation.

The regional alliance of Western democracies to protect themselves against Soviet aggression was called NATO. Which of the following is not true of this organization.

In response to aggressive Soviet moves in Europe, the United States and the democracies of Western Europe created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Currently American forces must be prepared to carry out a variety of missions in addition to the conduct of conventional war. Which of the following is not one of those missions?

A U.S. program to rebuild the nations of Western Europe in the aftermath of World War II in order to render them less susceptible to communist influence and/or takeover was called the

The Soviet response to the formation of NATO was the creation of

The Soviets suffered a heavy drain of human and economic resources during their nine-year war in Afghanistan, which some dubbed "Russia's Vietnam."

The Soviet invasion of _________ jarred America from its neo-isolationism that had followed its defeat in Vietnam.

Describe the ways that the newly elected President John F. Kennedy's actions during the Bay of Pigs and during the building of the Berlin Wall could have been seen as contrary to the goal of "containment of Russian expansive tendencies."

Reagan's strategic defense initiative to develop a defense against ballistic missile attack was labeled by the media as

Discuss how the idea of collective security resulted in the formation of the United Nations.

What spurred the formation of the Warsaw Pact? What happened to the former Eastern bloc state members when the Warsaw Pact disintegrated?

Compare and contrast the type and extent of threats to U.S. security during the Cold War and in the post-September 11 world. What aspects have changed drastically? What has remained the same?

Describe how the balance-of-power method worked to bring order to international relations during the nineteenth century.

Mikhail Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize for his actions as Soviet president. Which of the following is not true of Gorbachev's actions and beliefs as president?

Sovereignty means informal authority over internal affairs; freedom from external intervention; and social and humanitarian recognition by other nations.

When General MacArthur publically protested against political limits to military operations, President Truman promoted the popular general.

All of the following nations have a permanent seat on the Security Council of the United Nations except

Former president George W. Bush apparently based his foreign policy on a theory proposed by Samuel P. Huntington predicting that conflict between modern, Western democracies and Islamic fundamentalist nations will characterize international relations in the future. This is called the __________.

Russia remains the only nuclear power capable of destroying the United States.