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What was a common goal of the Proclamation of Neutrality (1793), the Embargo Act (1807), and the Monroe Doctrine (1823)?

Forcing Great Britain to grant independence to Canada

Avoiding conflicts with European nations

Providing wartime aid to European nations

Encouraging independence movements in Latin America

Which action by Germany prompted the United States to enter World War I?

Attacking British shipping

Forming an alliance with Austria-Hungary

Resuming unrestricted submarine warfare

Invading France

President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan was based on the belief that the action would

save American lives by avoiding an invasion of Japan

force Germany and Italy to lay down their arms

help create a military alliance with China

Persuade the Soviet Union to surrender

Which United States effort is the Soviet Union responding to in this cartoon?

a commitment to rebuild the League of Nations

a plan to join with other nations to reduce military spending

An effort to improve United States–Soviet relations

An attempt to stabilize the economy of Western Europe

The 1957 launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union embarrassed the United States because it

allowed the Soviets to place missiles in Turkey

Revealed that the Soviets had nuclear weapons

appeared that the United States had failed to keep up in scientific achievement

Confirmed the United States use of U-2 spy planes

Which statement accurately describes a result of the 1993 adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?

Tariff barriers were reduced between the three largest nations of North America

A single currency was created for the nations of North America.

Immigration restrictions between North American nations were eliminated.

The United States stopped importing oil from other North American nations.

Which foreign policy toward Europe did President George Washington recommend in his Farewell Address?

Military alliances

Internationalism

Imperialism

Neutrality

In the mid–1930s, which action did the federal government take in an attempt to avoid the situations that drew the United States into World War I?

Passing the Neutrality Acts

Allowing only the United States Navy to deliver military supplies oversees

Investing money in nations threatened by Germany

Forming a military alliance with the Soviet Union

The Lend-Lease Act of 1941 significantly changed United States policy toward nations involved in World War II because it

Supplied war materials to Allied nations without a declaration of war

imposed a trade boycott on Germany and Japan

authorized the seizure of British assets in the United States

Approved the appeasement policies of the French and British governments

"…The truth of the matter is that Europe’s requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products— principally from America—are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help, or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character.…" In this excerpt, Secretary of State George Marshall is identifying the need to

Provide economic assistance to struggling European nations

Allow European workers to settle in the United States

Install democratic governments in the nations of Western Europe

Strengthen European military defenses

The situation in Europe described by Secretary of State George Marshall was the result of the

Failure of the United Nations to help people in need

devastation caused by fighting in World War II

Construction of the Berlin Wall by the Soviet Union

takeover of Greece and Turkey by communists

Which statement most accurately explains why the War Powers Act (1973) was passed?

President Lyndon B. Johnson failed to send enough troops to South Vietnam.

President Richard Nixon negotiated a peace treaty with North Vietnam.

Congress wanted to reassert its right to authorize military action.

Military leaders demanded limits on presidential authority during wartime.

The 1972, 1979, and 1987 missile reduction agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union are examples of the foreign policy of

Brinksmanship

Détente

Appeasement

neutrality

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