Exam 18: Foreign Policy and National Defense

After World War II, under American leadership, the most important trading nations adopted the __________, an agreement designed to lower, then eliminate, tariffs on most traded goods and to end nontariff trade restrictions as well.

The George W. Bush administration's stated reason for __________ was the danger posed by weapons of mass destruction.

Although preventing nuclear proliferation has been a high-priority task since the Cold War, in the early twenty-first century, President George W. Bush signed a nuclear cooperation treating with __________ that seemed to give that country the go-ahead to speed up its weapons program.

Why has the United States taken a keen interest in China in recent years?

Compare and contrast the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. How successful was the United States in these conflicts?

The belief that free trade is especially important in a global economy was the impetus for the __________ among the United States, Canada, and Mexico.