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SS236 People, Power, and Politics - An Introduction to American Government

Unit 9 Quiz   

Question 1          The U.S. often avoided participation in foreign affairs through a foreign policy of

isolationism.

preemption.

multilateralism.

globalism.

protectionism.

Question 2          President ________ led the U.S. into World War I.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

Warren G. Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Question 3

The first international organization created to keep the peace after World War I was the

World Peace Foundation.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

League of Nations.

United Nations.

Nations of Peace.

Question 4          The ______________ was a confrontation over the deployment of ballistic missiles in Cuba, which almost led to war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1960s.

Moscow Affair

Cuban Missile Crisis

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Plan

Cold War

Question 5          The Cold War ended when communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed in

1969.

1976.

1982.

1989.

1996.

Question 6          Who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001?

Al-Qaeda

Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi

The Taliban

Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades

Iraq

Question 7          The National Defense Act of 1916

created the Department of Defense.

authorized U.S. involvement in World War I.

mandated the use of the term National Guard.

created the Central Intelligence Agency.

created the National Security Agency.

Question 8          Congress's role in foreign policy making includes which of the following?

Commanding the armed forces

Signing treaties

Appointing ambassadors

Appointing judges to international tribunals

Declaring war

Question 9          President ____________ warned against the development of a military-industrial complex.

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Woodrow Wilson

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ronald Reagan

Question 10        The goal of _______________ is to prevent would-be nuclear states from gaining access to the technology they need to make or deliver nuclear weapons.

denial

disarmament

arms control

negotiation

defense