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Example Question #1 : Facts And Details In U.S. Foreign Policy From 1899 To The Present
"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked..."
Midday, on December 8th, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his famous "Day of Infamy" speech to the US Congress which referred to what major event of the day before?
The Battle of the Bulge
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The bombing of Hiroshima
The Burma Campaign
The Battle of Iwo Jima
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The entirety of the referenced line reads as follows:
"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese attacked the US Pacific Fleet, launching America into World War II.
Example Question #7 : U.S. Foreign Policy From 1899 To The Present
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred during whose Presidency?
Jimmy Carter's
Richard M. Nixon's
Dwight D. Eisenhower's
John F. Kennedy's
Lyndon B. Johnson's
John F. Kennedy's
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuban locations during October of 1962. John F. Kennedy was president from 1961 until his death in November of 1963.
Example Question #2 : Facts And Details In U.S. Foreign Policy From 1899 To The Present
John F. Kennedy’s famous proclamation “Ich bin ein Berliner” (“I am a Berliner”) was a statement indicating what sentiment?
That America viewed Berlin as an unimportant entity during the Cold War.
That anyone from Berlin could choose to move to the Soviet Union.
That Kennedy was willing to visit East Berlin, but refused to visit West Berlin.
That Kennedy and America stood in solidarity with the citizens of Berlin, who were in a Western Enclave in East Germany, and therefore on the front lines against Communism in the Cold War.
That Berlin’s people were on their own in their fight against Communism.
That Kennedy and America stood in solidarity with the citizens of Berlin, who were in a Western Enclave in East Germany, and therefore on the front lines against Communism in the Cold War.
Kennedy’s line came in a 1963 speech in West Berlin that sought to show solidarity with the “free people” of Berlin. It was also widely seen as a speech which stood against any sense of Soviet aggression in East Germany. Kennedy’s marked anti-communism and Berlin’s place in the Cold War are important starting points to rule out answer choices that do not indicate either of those facts.
Example Question #3 : Facts And Details In U.S. Foreign Policy From 1899 To The Present
What was the most direct intention of the Marshall Plan, implemented shortly after World War II?
Following the culmination of World War II, the economies of Europe were heavily ravaged by the effects of war. The Marshall Plan, implemented in 1948, was designed to assist these countries economically and re-build them to close to their pre-war strength. The intention was to prevent the Western countries from embracing Communism which was taking hold throughout, the even more impoverished, Eastern Europe.
Example Question #4 : Facts And Details In U.S. Foreign Policy From 1899 To The Present
The Iran-Contra Scandal involved the Reagan administration selling arms to Iran to fund which Central American nation's anticommunist fighters?
The Contras were an anti-Communist force dedicated to overthrowing the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, led by Daniel Ortega. The Reagan administration had attempted to fund the Contras by selling Arms to Iran, despite an Embargo on trade there since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The Scandal was discovered in November 1986 after Iranian elements leaked information of the arms sales.
Example Question #5 : Facts And Details In U.S. Foreign Policy From 1899 To The Present
The Kellogg-Briand Pact can best be summarized as
The Kellogg-Briand pact was the brain child of United States Secretary of State Frank Kellogg in 1928. It was a treaty, signed by many nations, including the Soviet Union, which officially renounced war as a means of national policy. Although proposed by a United States’ representative, it did not gain majority support in American society and the U.S. continued to heavily invest in its military throughout peacetime.
Example Question #6 : Facts And Details In U.S. Foreign Policy From 1899 To The Present
What was the name given to John F. Kennedy’s policy of improving United States’ relations with Latin American countries?
Several decades of American interference and militaristic action had soured relations heavily between the United States and Latin America by the time of JFKs inauguration in 1960. To combat this Kennedy proposed a ten-year plan called the Alliance for Progress, which he hoped would halt and reverse this trend. The plan called for political stabilization in the region, economic co-operation and generous American aid. Although the plan did help play a role in the growth of Latin American domestic output in the 1960s and 1970s, lack of support from later Presidents and an unwillingness on the part of many Latin American governments to agree to American proposals ultimately lead the plan to be viewed as a failure.
Example Question #7 : Facts And Details In U.S. Foreign Policy From 1899 To The Present
What is the name given to the diplomatic crisis that began on November 4th, 1979, and ended on January, 20th, 1981, in which 52 Americans were held hostage by a group of Islamist students supporting the Iranian Revolution?
The Crisis of 444 Days
The Taking of the Embassy
The Iran Hostage Crisis
The Operation Eagle Claw Crisis
The Fall of the Shah
The Iran Hostage Crisis
The name given to the crisis that began with the Islamist students' taking of the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran, is called the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Example Question #8 : Facts And Details In U.S. Foreign Policy From 1899 To The Present
Which President signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Lyndon B. Johnson
Harry S. Truman
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The stated aims of the Treaty are to prevent the spread of nuclear weaponry to new countries, to co-operate on the peaceful use of nuclear technology, and to encourage the trend of gradual nuclear disarmament.
Example Question #6 : Facts And Details In U.S. Foreign Policy From 1899 To The Present
According to the Eisenhower Doctrine stated that .
the United States had a duty to help re-build the economies of Europe following the devastation of World War Two
the United States would assist the people of South America in gaining freedom from the oppression of autocracies and poverty
the United States would provide aid and possibly armed forces to a sovereign nation threatened with Communist invasion
the Federal Government would work to provide universal public education for all American children
the Federal Government had a responsibility to provide expansive Social Security for aging war veterans and government civil servants
the United States would provide aid and possibly armed forces to a sovereign nation threatened with Communist invasion
In the 1950s the United States found itself needing to fill a power vacuum in the Middle East, following the withdrawal of France and Great Britain. The threat of Soviet influence, or direct control, prompted President Eisenhower to issue a speech that would soon come to be known as the Eisenhower Doctrine. It promised economic and military aid to countries in the Middle East. As well as, assurances that the United States would provide aid and possibly troops to any sovereign nation threatened with invasion by a Communist regime.
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