Chapter 21

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

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

a) Bill Clinton

b) Anthony Lake

c) Warren Christopher

d) George Bush, Snr.

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

a) Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)

b) North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA)

c) Common Market of the South (MERUSOR)

d) Central American Common Market (CACM)

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

a) Iraq occupied Kuwait in August 1990 but did not annex it

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

c) A UN resolution in November authorized 'all means necessary' to liberate Kuwait

d) French troops took part in the US-led campaign to liberate Kuwait in February 1991

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

a) Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty

b) Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) I

c) START II

d) Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty

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

a) Iraq

b) Iran

c) Communist China

d) North Korea

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?

a) Ali Mahdi

b) Bertrand Aristide

c) Siad Barre

d) Mohammed Aideed