Chapter 17

Question 1

Congress’s attempt to reassert itself into war-making policy came in the form of what bill?

Answer 1

War Powers Resolution

Question 2

The __________ consists of members from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, as well as a chairman and vice chairman

Answer 2

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Question 3

Free trade is when a country allows the unfettered flow of goods and services between itself and other countries. At the other end of the spectrum is this approach, in which a country does not permit imports or charges high tariffs for imports

Answer 3

Protectionism

Question 4

President Washington was in favor of this foreign policy stance, and in fact, warned against the creation of “entangling alliances” in his farewell address

Answer 4

Isolationism

Question 5

Which of these is not a main goal of U.S. foreign policy?

Answer 5

Peaceful relations on the world stage with foreign powers

Question 6

This is the establishment and maintenance of a formal relationship between countries that governs their interactions on matters as diverse as tourism to the taxation of goods they trade, among other factors

Answer 6

Diplomacy

Question 7

Today, the United Nations includes all but _____ of the 195 nations of the world

Answer 7

2

Question 8

This is the collective understanding of the goals that a state’s officials seek to attain abroad. It can also consist of the values that give rise to those objectives, and the means or instruments used to pursue these objectives

Answer 8

Foreign policy

Question 9

This is the foremost international organization in the world today

Answer 9

United Nations

Question 10

The most famous foreign policy emergency in America came during the _________, in which the Soviet Union enacted threatening action on American soil

Answer 10

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 11

After World War I, President Wilson and others attempted to form this important international organization. Unfortunately, it was not able to do much on the world stage and dissolved

Answer 11

League of Nations

Question 12

The U.S. president is allowed to carry out military operations on foreign soil for ______ days before Congress must either approve the extension of those operations or declare war

Answer 12

60

Question 13

This theory suggests that the president can act in decisively different measures on foreign policy and domestic policy, and that some presidents are more successful on the former

Answer 13

Two presidencies thesis

Question 14

While the president may be the lead representative in America’s foreign policy, Congress also has important functions relating this the international stage. Which of these is a committee dealing with Congressional oversight of foreign policy?

Answer 14

a. Foreign Affairs Committee
b. Committee on Armed Services
c. Committee on Foreign Relations
d. All of the above***

Question 15

Unlike the use of military power, nonmilitary tools, such as economic sanctions or propagandizing, would be considered as what sort of power on the world stage?

Answer 15

Soft power

Question 16

Under the treaty process, a president negotiates an international treaty, the Senate consents to it by a _____ vote, and then the president ratifies it.

Answer 16

2/3

Question 17

This modern political ideology deals with the aggressive use or threat of hard power in foreign affairs.

Answer 17

Neoconservatism

Question 18

The ___________ strategy is the idea that a country should employ all available diplomatic, economic, and military resources to advance the national interest.

Answer 18

Grand

Question 19

According to the text, which of these is not a challenge in American foreign policy?

Answer 19

The impact of American-based supply-side economics has created social upheaval across the world

Question 20

Multiple foreign policy agencies come together to form the president’s ___________.

Answer 20

National Security Council

Question 21

a situation in which no one nation or region is much more powerful militarily than any
other in the world

Answer 21

balance of power

Question 22

the relationship between a country’s inflow and outflow of goods

Answer 22

balance of trade

Question 23

the period from shortly after World War II until approximately 1989–1990 when advanced
industrial democracies divided behind the two superpowers (East: Soviet Union, West: United States)
and the fear of nuclear war abounded

Answer 23

Cold War

Question 24

an international agreement that is not a treaty and that is negotiated
by the president and approved by a simple majority of the House and Senate

Answer 24

congressional executive agreement

Question 25

the effort by the United States and Western European allies, begun during the Cold War, to
prevent the spread of communism

Answer 25

containment

Question 26

the establishment and maintenance of a formal relationship between countries

Answer 26

diplomacy

Question 27

a government’s goals in dealing with other countries or regions and the strategy used to
achieve them

Answer 27

foreign policy

Question 28

a policy in which a country allows the unfettered flow of goods and services between itself
and other countries

Answer 28

free trade

Question 29

the use or threat of military power to influence the behavior of another country

Answer 29

hard power

Question 30

a foreign policy approach that advocates a nation’s staying out of foreign entanglements
and keeping to itself

Answer 30

isolationism

Question 31

a foreign policy approach of becoming proactively engaged in world affairs by
cooperating in a community of nations

Answer 31

liberal internationalism

Question 32

a policy of distancing the United States from the United Nations and other
international organizations, while still participating in the world economy

Answer 32

neo-isolationism

Question 33

the belief that, rather than exercising restraint, the United States should aggressively
use its might to promote its values and ideals around the world

Answer 33

neoconservatism

Question 34

a cross-national military organization with bases in

Belgium and Germany formed to maintain stability in Europe

Answer 34

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Question 35

a policy in which a country does not permit other countries to sell goods and services
within its borders or charges them very high tariffs (import taxes) to do so

Answer 35

protectionism

Question 36

a policy of retaining a strong military presence and remaining engaged across the
world

Answer 36

selective engagement

Question 37

nonmilitary tools used to influence another country, such as economic sanctions

Answer 37

soft power

Question 38

an international agreement that is not a treaty and that is negotiated and
approved by the president acting alone

Answer 38

sole executive agreement

Question 39

an international agreement entered by the United States that requires presidential negotiation with
other nation(s), consent by two-thirds of the Senate, and final ratification by the president

Answer 39

treaty

Question 40

the thesis by Wildavsky that there are two distinct presidencies, one for foreign and one for domestic policy, and that presidents are more successful in foreign than domestic policy

Answer 40

two presidencies thesis

Question 41

an international organization of nation-states that seeks to promote peace,
international relations, and economic and environmental programs

Answer 41

United Nations (UN)