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_____ was the most costly application of the containment doctrine. |
| | A) | Vietnam |
| | B) | Iraq |
| | C) | Korea |
| | D) | Grenada |
| | E) | Panama |
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_____ visited the People's Republic of China in 1972. |
| | A) | Lyndon Johnson |
| | B) | John McCain |
| | C) | Richard Nixon |
| | D) | Ronald Reagan |
| | E) | Jimmy Carter |
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Which of the following statements is true of world power structure? |
| | A) | From the end of World War II until the present, the world has been bipolar. |
| | B) | The world now has a unipolar structure. |
| | C) | From the end of World War II until December 8, 1991, the world was bipolar; now it has a unipolar structure. |
| | D) | The world is bipolar today. |
| | E) | Détente is still an important part of American foreign policy. |
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_____ called for a "new world order." |
| | A) | Ronald Reagan |
| | B) | George H.W. Bush |
| | C) | Bill Clinton |
| | D) | George W. Bush |
| | E) | Colin Powell |
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_____ launched the preemptive war doctrine in the United States. |
| | A) | Bill Clinton |
| | B) | Harry Truman |
| | C) | Lyndon Johnson |
| | D) | Ronald Reagan |
| | E) | George W. Bush |
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Which one of the following was not a unilateral excursion? |
| | A) | Grenada in 1983 |
| | B) | Panama in 1989 |
| | C) | Haiti in 1994 |
| | D) | Afghanistan in 2002 |
| | E) | None of the answers are correct. |
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America's trade deficit with China reached more than _____ in 2007. |
| | A) | $256 billion |
| | B) | $2 billion |
| | C) | $22 billion |
| | D) | $48 billion |
| | E) | $712 billion |
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President _____ warned against the military-industrial complex in his farewell address. |
| | A) | George Washington |
| | B) | Woodrow Wilson |
| | C) | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| | D) | Dwight Eisenhower |
| | E) | Ronald Reagan |
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Which of the following is true about global economics today? |
| | A) | The world is unipolar. |
| | B) | The world is bipolar. |
| | C) | The world is tripolar. |
| | D) | Power is widely decentralized. |
| | E) | None of the answers are correct. |
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The United States |
| | A) | spends the most on foreign aid in dollar terms, but several countries spend more on a per capita basis. |
| | B) | spends the most on a per capita basis, but several countries spend more in dollar terms. |
| | C) | spends the most on foreign aid in dollar terms and on a per capita basis. |
| | D) | spends less on foreign aid in dollar terms and on a per capita basis than several countries. |
| | E) | None of the answers are correct |
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_____ opposed the American war in Iraq in 2003. |
| | A) | Great Britain |
| | B) | France |
| | C) | Germany |
| | D) | Russia |
| | E) | France, Germany, and Russia |
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The European Recovery Plan is better known as the |
| | A) | Marshall Plan. |
| | B) | Truman Doctrine. |
| | C) | Eisenhower Doctrine. |
| | D) | Dulles Doctrine. |
| | E) | Carter Plan. |
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The United States last had a trade surplus in |
| | A) | 1941. |
| | B) | 1960. |
| | C) | 1975. |
| | D) | 1991. |
| | E) | 1999. |
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Many of America's traditional allies in _____ were opposed to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. |
| | A) | Asia |
| | B) | South America |
| | C) | Africa |
| | D) | North America |
| | E) | Europe |
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_____ said that an "iron curtain" had fallen across Europe after World War II. |
| | A) | Harry Truman |
| | B) | Thomas Dewey |
| | C) | Winston Churchill |
| | D) | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| | E) | Dwight Eisenhower |
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In 1990 President Bush obtained UN resolutions |
| | A) | ordering Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait and authorizing the use of force if it did not. |
| | B) | ordering Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait but did not authorize the use of force if it did not. |
| | C) | authorizing more severe sanctions on Iraq if it did not withdraw from Kuwait. |
| | D) | authorizing military action against Iraq if it did not share oil revenues captured in Kuwait with other countries in the region. |
| | E) | demanding that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait but without any specification of follow-up actions. |
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The U.S. Army has roughly |
| | A) | one million regular troops and more than three hundred thousand Reserve and National Guard soldiers. |
| | B) | three hundred thousand regular troops and more than one hundred thousand Reserve and National Guard soldiers. |
| | C) | five hundred thousand regular troops and more than three hundred thousand Reserve and National Guard soldiers. |
| | D) | eight hundred thousand regular troops and more than five hundred thousand Reserve and National Guard soldiers. |
| | E) | two hundred thousand regular troops and more than three hundred thousand Reserve and National Guard soldiers. |
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The Korean War resulted in the loss of _____ American lives. |
| | A) | 1,000 |
| | B) | 5,000 |
| | C) | 12,000 |
| | D) | 35,000 |
| | E) | 500,000 |
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The Soviet Union leader that implemented perestroika was |
| | A) | Boris Yeltsin. |
| | B) | Joseph Stalin. |
| | C) | Nikita Khrushchev. |
| | D) | Leonid Brezhnev. |
| | E) | Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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_____ was the Soviet Union's Vietnam. |
| | A) | Poland |
| | B) | Czechoslovakia |
| | C) | Syria |
| | D) | Afghanistan |
| | E) | Hungary |
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