IDENTIFICATIONS

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

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

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.