Exam 17: Extension 3: Focus On: Foreign Policy

Of the many U.S. foreign policy goals, which is the most important?

Although the interest groups and Democrats in Congress did not support NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), it was supported by President __________.

The deep hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century was called _________.

The idea that the United States can strike first if there is a perceived threat against its interests is __________.

Trade with the rest of the world accounts for about __________ percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP).

Despite bipartisan criticism of Johnson's and Nixon's Vietnam war policy, __________.

Briefly compare Nixon's and Clinton's views on foreign policy.

Who was the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State?

Armed intervention in South and North Vietnam began in 1964 with Congress passing __________.

When a country uses shared ideas or values to get their way, instead of military power, they are utilizing __________ power.

U.S. war efforts may have failed in Vietnam because __________.

How can Congress check the authority of the president's foreign policy ventures, especially in regard to making war?

The first cultural exchange between China and the United States in the twentieth century occurred during __________.

What term refers to secret funding spent annually on intelligence?

Some of the government officials best positioned to advise the president on foreign policy includes __________.

How has globalization changed U.S. foreign policy? What challenges might be in the future?

Which of the following U.S. wars included a debate before the declaration?

Given the course of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy, is the United States more isolationist or internationalist?

Which was an undeclared war by Congress?

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev, the new general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, called for __________.