A) Iraq attacked Israel in 2002 with SCUD missiles and was threatening to do so again.
B) Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
C) Saddam Hussein had provided considerable funding to Osama bin Laden.
D) Saddam Hussein had permitted Osama bin Laden to use Iraq for training terrorists.-Consider This: Osama bin Laden was based in Afghanistan.
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A) the Central Intelligence Agency
B) the Director of National Intelligence -Consider This: The national intelligence director advises on secret operations.
C) the Secretary of Homeland Security
D) the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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A) sanctions levied against South Africa in the mid-1980s to protest apartheid
B) the grain embargo on the Soviet Union in 1980 in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
C) the sanctions against Cuba to oust the Marxist dictator -Consider This: The Marxist regime was still in power 50 years after sanctions were first imposed.
D) sanctions imposed on Russia to keep it out of Crimea
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A) the cabinet secretaries
B) the commanding officers of each of the services
C) the president's foreign policy advisers
D) the secretary of defense,the secretary of homeland security,and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency -Consider This: The Chiefs are military leaders.
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A) the Department of Defense
B) the secretary of state
C) the Central Intelligence Agency -Consider This: The CIA was not Snowden's target.
D) the National Security Agency
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A) Congress
B) the president
C) the State Department -Consider This: State has an important role in foreign policy,but it is not the main force.
D) the National Security Council
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A) Secretary of State
B) director of the Central Intelligence Agency
C) chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -Consider This: Although the chair may be important,it does not have the greatest influence.
D) director of national intelligence
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A) The UN is an international organization formed immediately after World War I in an effort to avoid another world war and consistently renounces war and respects human and economic freedoms.-Consider This: The post-World War I effort to form an international peacekeeping force failed.
B) The UN was created in 1945 as an international peacekeeping organization and has not always been capable of making and keeping peace.
C) The UN was formed in the late 1930s as an international peacekeeping organization and has remained isolationist from the start.
D) The UN is composed of fewer than 100 member nations and focuses exclusively on peacekeeping operations.
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A) The Marines are the smallest branch of the military.
B) The U.S.has an active military draft.
C) The U.S.is more equipped to fight at sea than on land.-Consider This: The army is larger than the navy,and soldiers in every branch of the military are trained in multiple forms of combat.
D) The U.S.has a large,diverse standing military force.
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A) the Department of Homeland Security -Consider This: Homeland Security is a separate department
B) NATO
C) the National Security Council
D) the Central Intelligence Agency
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A) repairing national infrastructure
B) commanding the military -Consider This: Though commanding the military is one of the president's duties,the cartoon addresses the myriad complex international issues that confront the president.
C) developing strategies to deal with international problems
D) fighting wars in other countries
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A) to help the director of the Central Intelligence Agency combat the growing threat posed by weapons of mass destruction
B) to better coordinate the large number of people working in diverse intelligence agencies
C) to decentralize authority within the intelligence community to prevent competition between agencies
D) because the previous organizational structure of the intelligence community encouraged the various agencies to do too much of their work collaboratively,which led to groupthink -Consider This: The lack of collaboration was a major concern of Congress.
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A) the director of the Central Intelligence Agency -Consider This: Although the CIA is important,its director is not the president's chief intelligence adviser.
B) the director of national intelligence
C) the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
D) the National Security Agency
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A) Americans greatly overestimate the amount that is spent on foreign aid.
B) Most foreign aid programs are aimed at providing medical care and other services in less-developed nations.
C) Foreign aid primarily consists of various loan programs that provide favorable interest rates and preferential trade agreements for nations that lower trade barriers.-Consider This: Loans are a significant part of foreign aid,but not the primary form.
D) Foreign aid primarily consists of advice from the U.S.government to less-developed nations in Africa and Asia.
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A) nuclear proliferation -Consider This: Containment was not specifically concerned with proliferation.
B) the spread of Soviet influence
C) terrorism
D) the Cold War
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A) Soft power takes full advantage of U.S.military prowess.
B) Soft power is particularly adept at dealing with rogue nations.-Consider This: Soft power may be least effective with rogue nations.
C) Resolutions reached through the use of soft power are more durable.
D) Soft power does not rely on military coercion to accomplish foreign policy goals.
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A) the Vietnam War
B) the Reagan administration -Consider This: Defense spending was high during this period,but not the highest.
C) the war in Iraq
D) the war in Afghanistan
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A) World War I
B) World War II -Consider This: The Soviet Union was a key ally in World War II.
C) the Vietnam War
D) Operation Desert Storm
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A) the Americans and the Soviets are pictured together
B) the United Nations encouraged détente between superpowers
C) the Berlin Wall was the symbol of a divided world
D) Eastern Europeans fought off Soviet oppressors -Consider This: Many Eastern Europeans rose up and toppled Soviet-supported governments,but the fall of the Berlin Wall was a worldwide announcement that the Cold War was coming to an end.
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A) protect the United States from nuclear weapons
B) promote democracy by fostering economic development
C) reduce the number of nuclear warheads held by both the United States and the Soviet Union -Consider This: SDI was not a warhead reduction program
D) refocus the military on nonconventional warfare
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