A policy that involves choice taking, like domestic policy, but additionally involves choices about relations with the rest of the world. The president is the chief initiator of foreign policy in the US.

Created in 1945, an organization whose members agree to renounce war and to respect certain human and economic freedoms. The seat of real power in the UN is the security council.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Created in 1949, an organization whose members include the United States, Canada, most Western European nations, and Turkey.

An alliance of the major western european nations that coordinates monetary, trade, immigration, and labor policies, making its members one economic unit. An example of regional organization.

The head of the Department of State and traditionally a key advisor to the president on foreign policy.

The head of the department of defense and the president’s key advisor on military policy, a key foreign policy actor.

Joint Chiefs of staff

The commanding officers of the armed services who advise the president on military policy.

An agency created after WW2 to coordinate American intelligence activities abroad. It became involved in intrigue, conspiracy, and meddling as well.

A foreign policy course followed throughout most of our nation’s history, whereby the US has tried to stay out of other nation’s conflicts.

A foreign policy strategy advocated by George Kennan that called for the US to isolate the soviet union, contain its advances and resist its encroachments by peaceful means if possible.

War by other than military means usually emphasizing ideological conflict.

International Communism spread theory.

A tense relationship beginning in the 1950’s between the US and the Soviet Union.

A slow transformation from Conflict thinking to cooperative thinking in foreign policy strategy and policy making.

Strategic Defense Initiative

Renamed star wars by critics, a plan for defense against the soviet union unveiled by President Reagan

Mutual dependency, in which the actions of nations reverberate and affect one another's economic lifelines.

A special tax added to imported goods.

The ration of what paid for imports to what is earned from exports. When more is imported than exported, there is a balance of trade deficit.

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

An economic organization consisting primarily of Arab nations that control the price of oil.

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CHAPTER 20 AP gov

Question	Answer
Foreign Policy	A policy that involves choice taking, like domestic policy, but additionally involves choices about relations with the rest of the world. The president is the chief initiator of foreign policy in the US.
United Nations	Created in 1945, an organization whose members agree to renounce war and to respect certain human and economic freedoms. The seat of real power in the UN is the security council.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization	Created in 1949, an organization whose members include the United States, Canada, most Western European nations, and Turkey.
European Union	An alliance of the major western european nations that coordinates monetary, trade, immigration, and labor policies, making its members one economic unit. An example of regional organization.
Secretary of State	The head of the Department of State and traditionally a key advisor to the president on foreign policy.
Secretary of defense	The head of the department of defense and the president’s key advisor on military policy, a key foreign policy actor.
Joint Chiefs of staff	The commanding officers of the armed services who advise the president on military policy.
CIA	An agency created after WW2 to coordinate American intelligence activities abroad. It became involved in intrigue, conspiracy, and meddling as well.
Isolationism	A foreign policy course followed throughout most of our nation’s history, whereby the US has tried to stay out of other nation’s conflicts.
Containment Doctrine	A foreign policy strategy advocated by George Kennan that called for the US to isolate the soviet union, contain its advances and resist its encroachments by peaceful means if possible.
Cold war	War by other than military means usually emphasizing ideological conflict.
McCarthyism	International Communism spread theory.
Arms races	A tense relationship beginning in the 1950’s between the US and the Soviet Union.
Detente	A slow transformation from Conflict thinking to cooperative thinking in foreign policy strategy and policy making.
Strategic Defense Initiative	Renamed star wars by critics, a plan for defense against the soviet union unveiled by President Reagan
Interdependency	Mutual dependency, in which the actions of nations reverberate and affect one another's economic lifelines.
Tariff	A special tax added to imported goods.
Balance of trade	The ration of what paid for imports to what is earned from exports. When more is imported than exported, there is a balance of trade deficit.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries	An economic organization consisting primarily of Arab nations that control the price of oil.

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