Chapter 21 Self-test questions

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. Which US policy-maker said in 1993 that 'the successor to a doctrine of containment must be the strategy of enlargement'?

Bill Clinton correct incorrect

Anthony Lake correct incorrect

Warren Christopher correct incorrect

George Bush, Snr. correct incorrect

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. Under which agreement, effective from 1 January 1994, did the US and Mexico become part of a wider free trade area?

Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) correct incorrect

North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) correct incorrect

Common Market of the South (MERUSOR) correct incorrect

Central American Common Market (CACM) correct incorrect

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. Which of these statements about the 1990-91 Gulf War is not true?

Iraq occupied Kuwait in August 1990 but did not annex it correct incorrect

The US ambassador to Baghdad had earlier told Saddam Hussein that Washington had no firm view on his border dispute with Kuwait correct incorrect

A UN resolution in November authorized 'all means necessary' to liberate Kuwait correct incorrect

French troops took part in the US-led campaign to liberate Kuwait in February 1991 correct incorrect

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. Which of the following arms control treaties was signed in January 1993?

Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty correct incorrect

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) I correct incorrect

START II correct incorrect

Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty correct incorrect

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. Which of the following countries was not treated as a 'rogue state' by the Clinton administration?

Iraq correct incorrect

Iran correct incorrect

Communist China correct incorrect

North Korea correct incorrect

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. What was the name of the Somali warlord, whose headquarters was attacked by the US military in early October 1993 with considerable loss of life?

Ali Mahdi correct incorrect

Bertrand Aristide correct incorrect

Siad Barre correct incorrect

Mohammed Aideed correct incorrect