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Assignment 5 Ch. 17 Foreign Policy Essay/Short Answer: write substantial short answers to the questions. One sentence does not count as a substantial answer (except for definitions).

1. Define isolationism, internationalism, multilateralism, unilateralism, preemptive war doctrine, deterrence policy, and transnational terrorism. 2. Describe the military-industrial complex and discuss its influence on defense spending. 2. Discuss the relative strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. economy relative to those of leading competitor nations. 3. Define the term containment policy. What was the basis for this policy? 4. Describe the three goals of the United States in the global economy. 5. How does public opinion exhibit varying levels of importance in defense policy? 6. What are the respective arguments of those who support free trade versus those who argue for protectionism? What are the implications of each position for the global economy and America’s overall competitiveness in it? 7. The idea that major nations should act together in response to problems and crises is called a. the one-world concept. b. détente. c. multilateralism. d. internationalism. e. containment. 8. The Marshall Plan was designed to a. confront the Soviet Union’s military and political threat to Western Europe. b. economically rebuild Western Europe. c. provide a Western European market for U.S. goods. d. feed and shelter the destitute from World War II. e. All these answers are correct. 9. The phrase that best describes the shift in America’s world position from the pre- to the postWorld War II eras is a. internationalism to isolationism. b. isolationism to internationalism. c. containment to isolationism. d. interventionism to isolationism.

e. None of these answers is correct. 10. _____ declared that an iron curtain had fallen across Europe. a. Winston Churchill b. Harry Truman c. Joseph Stalin d. Neville Chamberlain e. Dwight Eisenhower 11. Which of the following is a true statement regarding the Cold War? a. It never became an actual shooting war between the United States and the Soviet Union. b. The U.S. pursued a policy of containment. c. It included U.S. support for governments being threatened by communism. d. The global power structure was bipolar. e. All these answers are correct. 12. What president first warned of the consequences of the military-industrial complex? a. Dwight Eisenhower b. Richard Nixon c. John F. Kennedy d. Ronald Reagan e. Jimmy Carter 13. One reason why the Soviet Union eventually collapsed was its a. heavy defense expenditures. b. isolation from western technology and markets. c. inefficient centralized command economy. d. perestroika initiative. e. All these answers are correct. 14. The SALT treaty a. brought a settlement to the Korean War. b. ended the Vietnam War. c. reduced the nuclear weapons arsenals of the U.S. and Soviet Union. d. established zones of control in post-war Germany between the U.S. and Soviet Union. e. limited the amount of standing forces that the Soviet Union could keep in Western Europe. 15. Which is a true statement about the 1990–1991 Gulf War? a. It was a successful military operation. b. It resolved the regional conflicts that prompted the original aggression by Iraq. c. It was waged entirely by U.S. military forces. d. It created a fiscal crisis because of the financial burden it placed on the United States. e. None of these answers is correct. 16. The United States pursues its economic policy goals through which of the following

international organizations? a. World Bank b. World Trade Organization (WTO) c. International Monetary Fund (IMF) d. None of these answers is correct. e. All these answers are correct. 17. Upon assuming the presidency in 2001, George W. Bush declared that a. he would reduce America’s military presence abroad. b. he would not follow his father’s multilateral approach to world affairs. c. he would reduce America’s reliance on the United Nations. d. the United States would not participate in the Kyoto Accord. e. All these answers are correct. 18. The primary ethnic factional groups fighting each other in Iraq after the invasion were a. Sunni, Saudi, and Kurd. b. Sunni, Shiite, and Kurd. c. Kurd, Al Qaeda, and Saudi. d. Arab, Shiite, and Sunni. e. Kurd, Shiite, and Saudi. 19. Which of the following economic organizations makes long-term loans to the poorer nations of the world? a. Export-Import Bank b. World Bank c. International Monetary Fund d. World Trade Organization 20. The end of the Cold War has reduced the likelihood of unlimited conventional war. a. True b. False...