GOVT 2305 Module 12 Quiz Bank LMS Chapter 15

Which of the following statements regarding foreign policy is correct?

• Domestic policy has no effect on foreign policy, and foreign policy has no effect on domestic policy because they operate in different spheres.

• Whereas foreign policy involves diplomacy, military, and security policy, foreign policy does not include economic policy.

• Although foreign policy includes diplomacy, military, and security policy, it does not include international human rights policy.

• Foreign policy includes various forms of economic policies, such as trade policy and international energy policy.

Which term described a policy of avoiding involvement in the affairs of other nations?

• containment

• isolationism

• globalism

• allyship

The nineteenth-century policy of _______ was based on the geographic distance of the United States from other countries.

• idealism

• isolationism

• internationalism

• sovereign dominance

Which of the following terms describes a policy designed to curtail the political and military expansion of a hostile power?

• appeasement

• deterrence

• containment

• isolationism

The policy of striking a nation that might be contemplating hostile actions is called

Which of the following terms refers to the effort to forestall war by giving in to the demands of a hostile power?

• deterrence

• containment

• isolationism

• appeasement

What are the two primary goals of American foreign policy?

• equality and democracy

• security and prosperity

• opportunity and diversity

• order and cohesion

When two sides of an international conflict possess such enormous arsenals of nuclear missiles that each has the ability to destroy the other in the event of war, it is most accurately called

• bilateralism.

• détente.

• preventive war.

• mutually assured destruction.

A policy of deterrence may fail against terrorist groups because

• history has shown that only democratic nation-states respond well to deterrence.

• deterrence has been made illegal under international law as decided by the United Nations.

• terrorist groups lack a fixed geographic location, which prevents easy retaliation.

• terrorist groups do not yet have access to nuclear weapons.

The fact that the United States remains silent in the face of human rights violations by a number of countries illustrates that

• the United States has been pursuing a policy of isolationism since the Founding, but especially since the end of World War II.

• protecting human rights is less important to American foreign policy than security concerns and economic interests.

• the president has only limited power in determining American foreign policy.