Which of the following is true of the policy of containment?
a. It is a strategy that originated with the Cold War.
b. It is an offensive strategy; deterrence is defensive.
c. It was used by conservative monarchical states to contain the ideology espoused by the French Revolution.
d. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union adopted containment as an official policy to balance against American power.
e. It uses only soft military power, as in economic sanctions.
Answer: c
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A) libertarianism has come to mean something closer to generous. B) liberalism is focused on equality of outcome, while libertarianism focuses on social equality. C) liberalism rejects the need for public goods. D) libertarianism puts a greater emphasis on individual freedom. E) diminishing over time, and the two terms now largely mean the same thing.
Which of the following is an example of a bureaucratic organization?
a. the Department of Defense b. the U.S. House of Representatives c. the U.S. Supreme Court d. the Democratic Party
The architect of the policy of dÈtente was
A) John Foster Dulles. B) Henry Kissinger. C) George F. Kennan. D) Woodrow Wilson. E) Stan Wilson.
Real financial power moved from the states to the national government by virtue of a. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), which gave the federal government the power to establish a bank. b. Baker v. Carr (1962), which established the Federal Reserve System. c. Brown v. Rhode Island (1820), which allowed the United States to establish a national bank modeled afterthe Bank of England
d. the Sixteenth Amendment, which gave Congress power to tax personal and corporate incomes.