Foreign Policy Quiz

The expansion beyond a nation's borders to gain resources and build an empire is known as...

• capitalism

• facism

• communism

• imperialism

George Washington advised Americans to...

• align with only the most prosperous nations

• stay neutral and avoid foreign entanglements

• protect the Western Hemisphere from outsiders

• make the world safe for democracy, whatever it takes.

How did the Truman Doctrine break from the Monroe Doctrine?

• It promised the US would get involved anywhere in the world.

• It pledged that the US would not interfere in other nation's problems.

• It promoted alliances only with nations in the Western Hemisphere.

• It prompted the US stay out of the United Nations.

The US proved it would put profits and prejudice over principle in its dealings with this nation.

• Japan

• China

• The Philippines

• The Soviet Union

Ho Chi Minh believed President Wilson would support Vietnamese independence because...

• the Vietnamese were opposed to communism.

• the Vietnamese cause was in line with the American Revolution.

• it would expand the US empire.

• President Wilson's parents were Vietnamese.

The US proved its commitment to containment in West Berlin by...

• cutting off supplies to the German people.

• sending in troops.

• invading East Germany.

• flying supplies into the city for nearly a year.

Which nation assisted the North Koreans in their attempt to takeover South Korea?

• The United States

• The Soviet Union

• China

• France

President Theodore Roosevelt insisted that all negotiations with nations the US is in conflict with must allow...

• the US to profit.

• the opposition to save face.

• the US to determine the terms of peace.

• the opposition to gain lost territory.

What action has only been taken by the US in the course of human history?

• colonizing outside territory

• using chemical warfare

• promoting world peace

• using a nuclear weapon

The idea that if one nation falls to communism, others will follow is known as...

• the "domino theory."

• imperialism

• the "iron curtain."

• Manifest Destiny.