Government Chapter 17

Question 1

personal representative of the President of the US who reports to the President through the Secretary of State

Answer 1

ambassador

Question 2

regional security alliance among the US, Australia, and New Zealand

Answer 2

ANZUS

Question 3

President during the Gulf War

Answer 3

George H. W. Bush

Question 4

the policy of making the US and its allies so militarily strong as to discourage any attack

Answer 4

deterrence

Question 5

US policy of halting the expansion of communism in the belief that it collapse

Answer 5

containment

Question 6

French for “relaxation of tensions”; attempt to improve relations with the USSR and, separately, China

Answer 6

détente

Question 7

system in which participating nations agree to take joint action to meet any threat to or attack on another

Answer 7

collective security

Question 8

practice in international law in which ambassadors are not subject to the laws of the state to which they are assigned

Answer 8

diplomatic immunity

Question 9

compulsory military service

Answer 9

draft

Question 10

President during most of WWII

Answer 10

Franklin DeLano Roosevelt

Question 11

economic and military aid given to other countries

Answer 11

foreign aid

Question 12

all the stands and actions that a nation takes in every aspect of its relationships with other countries

Answer 12

foreign policy

Question 13

leader of Communist forces in Vietnam

Answer 13

Ho Chi Minh

Question 14

a purposeful refusal to become generally involved with the affairs of the rest of the world

Answer 14

isolationism

Question 15

President that secured the purchase of Louisiana

Answer 15

Thomas Jefferson

Question 16

President during the Spanish - American War

Answer 16

William McKinley

Question 17

led the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 17

John F Kennedy

Question 18

when Florida was purchased this man was President

Answer 18

Andrew Jackson

Question 19

warned Europeans against colonizing in the Western Hemisphere

Answer 19

Monroe Doctrine

Question 20

US regional security alliance in Europe

Answer 20

NATO

Question 21

President that initiated détente and was the first President to visit communist China

Answer 21

Richard Nixon

Question 22

certificate issued by a government to its citizens that travel or live abroad

Answer 22

passport

Question 23

President during the Mexican-American War

Answer 23

James K Polk

Question 24

the right to send and receive diplomatic representatives

Answer 24

right of legation

Question 25

made the decision to “drop the bomb”; sent US troops into Korea

Answer 25

Harry S Truman

Question 26

defensive alliance in which countries agree to take collective action to meet aggression in various parts of the world

Answer 26

regional security alliance

Question 27

regional security alliance with the US, Canada, and 32 Latin American countries

Answer 27

Rio Pact

Question 28

permission to enter another state and must be issued by the country one wishes to enter

Answer 28

visa

Question 29

President during WWI

Answer 29

Woodrow Wilson

Question 30

statement that the US would follow a policy of deterrence a containment through collective security

Answer 30

Truman Doctrine