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AP U.S. History — Period 9 (1980–Present) — Drill 19

Drill 19 · Multiple Choice · Period 9: 1980–Present

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AP U.S. History — Period 9 (1980–Present) — Drill 19 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 9: 1980–Present. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

This AP U.S. History Period 9 drill uses a modern historian's analysis of the post-Cold War United States. Questions address the historian's argument that a historic opportunity was only partially seized, the political culture of the 1990s, and the longer-term consequences of decisions made in that decade.

Passage

The following is adapted from a modern historian's essay on the post–Cold War United States. The end of the Cold War in 1989–1991 presented the United States with a historical opportunity that was only partially seized. American policymakers celebrated victory and declared the triumph of liberal democracy and free markets, but they struggled to define a coherent new purpose for American power in a world that no longer organized itself around the Soviet threat. The 1990s were a decade of confused foreign policy — humanitarian interventions in Somalia and Bosnia, expansion of NATO, the unresolved question of China's rise — rather than the clear strategic vision that the Cold War had provided. What the decade did produce was a domestic economic boom, a growing sense of technological optimism, and a political discourse so focused on prosperity that it deferred the harder questions about America's role in the world until those questions arrived, with terrible force, on September 11, 2001.

Questions in This Drill

  1. The historian's argument that the end of the Cold War presented an opportunity 'only partially seized' most directly challenges which of the following characterizations of the 1990s?
  2. The historian's description of the 1990s as producing 'a political discourse so focused on prosperity that it deferred the harder questions' most directly reflects which of the following historical patterns?
  3. The 'humanitarian interventions in Somalia and Bosnia' that the historian cites as examples of confused 1990s foreign policy were most significant because they
  4. The domestic economic boom of the 1990s that the historian references was most directly associated with which of the following developments?
  5. The historian's argument that September 11 forced the United States to confront 'harder questions about America's role in the world' is best supported by which of the following subsequent developments?