1. What was an outcome of the Yalta Conference of 1945?

2. Complete the sentence. President Bush's 2001 speech at West Point made all of the following arguments EXCEPT:

3. Which factors concerned U.S. policy makers prior to the launch of the US-led ground attack of Iraq that brought an end to the Gulf War?

4. President Wilson's Speech asking Congress to declare war on Germany and his 14 points are examples of which IR theory?

5. According to Jonathan Clarke, what is a key difference between first and second generation neo-conservatives?

6. What is the main concept that President Obama articulated in his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech?

7. Which of the following is an issue of concern to contemporary U.S. policy makers that was not considered a priority for policy makers during the Cold War?

8. What, according to Banchoff, is a prominent difference in values between the US and the EU?

9. According to E.S. Herman, what role or roles do the mainstream media generally play with regard to the conduct of US foreign policy?

10. How is it that the United States has been able to claim an exceptional role in world affairs -- the notion that America's national interest is more or less synonymous with that of the international community as a whole?

11. The globalization or universalization of capitalism, which has created a more interconnected world, but also one subject to greater vulnerability through global economic crisis, reflects most closely reflects which theoretical view?

12. In his first articulation of the 'falling domino' principle, Eisenhower argued that the US must intervene in Indochina (i.e., Vietnam) to prevent a sequence of events in which the fall of Indochina would lead to the fall of Burma, of Thailand, of the Malay Peninsula, and of Indonesia. To Eisenhower, the problem was not geostrategic, but economic: he clearly stated that these countries must be protected so that Japan would have a 'trading area.' In short, the US fought in Vietnam to protect Japan's economy. Which theoretical view seems to be reflected in Eisenhower's logic?

13. What was Henry Cabot Lodge's main criticism of the League of Nations?

14. Which of the following was not a recommendation of the 9/11 Commission?

15. A: Technology and Energy

16. Which of the following policies do Ogden and Anderson ('US Foreign Policy Toward North Korea: A Way Ahead') not recommend in US policy toward North Korea?

17. Which description accurately characterizes Afghanistan?

18. What cognitive factors might have influenced Wilson's effort to get the US Senate to approve the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations?

19. Complete the following sentence. As an example of a contemporary vision of a grand strategy for the United States, the Bush Doctrine emphasized all of the following EXCEPT:

20. Which theoretical model does Scott Sagan recommend the US adopt as a basis for its nonproliferation policy?

21. 50. In his famous article on the 'Clash of Civilizations', Samuel Huntington argued that basic cultural and religious differences among different civilizations would be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War era. Huntington's thesis has been subject to much criticism. Why does one critic, Peter Katzenstein, say that Huntington is wrong?

22. In addressing oil and gas energy policy, what type of policy or policies does John Deutch recommend as the most realistic?

23. Which statement best captures the approach that the United States took with regard to nuclear deterrence during the Cold War?

24. The frequent use of covert military operations overseas to achieve U.S. foreign policy objectives might be the result of which of the following?

25. What is the principle assumption that informs realist theories of international relations?