IDENTIFICATIONS (30 POINTS)
? Please
identify and state the significance of five of the following 10 terms. Each response is worth a maximum of six
points.
1) Deep Throat
2) Spirow Agnew
3) Iran Hostage Crisis
4) Reagan Doctrine
5) “trickle down” economics
6) Operation Desert Storm
7) Helmut Kohl
8) Affordable Care Act
9) Fort Hood Shootings
10) Neil Gorsuch
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (40 POINTS)
? Please
answer briefly (2-3 paragraphs) two of the following five questions? Each response is worth a maximum of 20
points.
1) How would you assess Henry Kissinger’s role in the
conduct of US foreign policy under Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R.
Ford?
2) How would you assess the George H.W. Bush
administration’s management of the “Two-Plus-Four” process?
3) What would you identify as the principal reasons for the
William J. Clinton administration’s intervention in the Balkans in the 1990s?
4) What would you identify as the principal strengths and
weaknesses of the Affordable Care Act?
5) How would you assess the role of the media in the 2016
American presidential election?
ESSAY QUESTION (30 POINTS)
? Please
answer in depth (750-1,000 words) one of the following three
questions. This response is worth a
maximum of 30 points.
1) What would you identify as the most significant causes
and consequences of the Watergate Scandal?
Please explain why and support your answer with detailed practical
examples?
2) What would you identify as the principal causes for the
end of the Cold War under the management of the Ronald W. Reagan and George W.
Bush administrations? Please explain
why and support your answer with detailed practical examples.
3) What would you identify as the principal causes and
consequences of Al Qaeda’s terrorist attacks against the United States on 11
September 2001? Please explain why and
support your answer with detailed practical examples.
