New Look Policy Quiz

What was the primary focus of the New Look Strategy initiated under President Dwight D. Eisenhower?

• Increasing conventional military forces

• Emphasizing reliance on nuclear weapons

• Reducing the nuclear arsenal

• Expanding U.S. ground troop deployments

Which of the following was a key component of the New Look Policy's Massive Retaliation strategy?

• Increasing conventional military forces

• Responding to Soviet provocations with overwhelming nuclear force

• Reducing the nuclear arsenal

• Expanding U.S. ground troop deployments

What was one of the applications of the New Look Policy in terms of military budget?

• Increasing conventional military spending

• Shifting budgetary focus to nuclear arsenal and strategic air power

• Reducing defense funds

• Expanding U.S. ground troop deployments

How did the New Look Policy aim to strengthen alliances?

• By reducing military aid

• By increasing conventional military forces

• Through military aid and nuclear guarantees

• By reducing the nuclear arsenal

What was one of the characteristics of the New Look Policy?

• Emphasis on maintaining a robust and superior nuclear arsenal

• Increasing conventional military forces

• Reducing the nuclear arsenal

• Expanding U.S. ground troop deployments

What was one of the reasons for the New Look Policy?

• The intensifying Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union

• Increasing conventional military forces

• Reducing the nuclear arsenal

• Expanding U.S. ground troop deployments

What was one of Eisenhower's economic concerns regarding national defense?

• Increasing military spending to boost the economy

• Balancing national defense with economic stability

• Reducing taxes to fund military projects

• Expanding the military-industrial complex

What technological advance made nuclear deterrence more feasible and effective during Eisenhower's era?

• Development of radar technology

• Advances in nuclear technology and strategic bombers

• Creation of the internet

• Invention of the jet engine

What was a global impact of the New Look policy?

• Decrease in nuclear arms race

• Accelerated nuclear arms race leading to Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

• Reduction in NATO's influence

• Strengthening of the Soviet Union's economy

How did the New Look policy affect U.S. allies?

• U.S. allies became less reliant on American nuclear guarantees

• U.S. allies became heavily reliant on American nuclear guarantees

• U.S. allies developed their own nuclear weapons

• U.S. allies withdrew from NATO