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Foreign Policy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| balance of power | a situation in which no one nation or region is much more powerful militarily than any other in the world |
| balance of trade | the relationship between a country’s inflow and outflow of goods |
| Cold War | the period from shortly after World War II until approximately 1989–1990 when advanced industrial democracies divided behind the two superpowers (East: Soviet Union, West: United States) and the fear of nuclear war abounded |
| executive agreement | an international agreement that is not a treaty and that is negotiated and approved by the president acting alone |
| containment | the effort by the United States and Western European allies, begun during the Cold War, to prevent the spread of communism |
| foreign policy | a government’s goals in dealing with other countries or regions and the strategy used to achieve them |
| free trade | a policy in which a country allows the unrestricted flow of goods and services between itself and other countries |
| isolationism | a foreign policy approach that advocates a nation’s staying out of foreign entanglements and keeping to itself |
| internationalism | a foreign policy approach of becoming proactively engaged in world affairs by cooperating in a community of nations |
| neo-isolationism | a policy of distancing the United States from the United Nations and other international organizations, while still participating in the world economy |
| neoconservatism | the belief that, rather than exercising restraint, the United States should aggressively use its might to promote its values and ideals around the world |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | a cross-national military organization with bases in Belgium and Germany formed to maintain stability in Europe |
| protectionism | a policy in which a country does not permit other countries to sell goods and services within its borders or charges them very high tariffs (import taxes) to do so |
| treaty | an international agreement entered by the United States that requires presidential negotiation with other nation(s), consent by two-thirds of the Senate, and final ratification by the president |
| United Nations (UN) | an international organization of nation-states that seeks to promote peace, international relations, and economic and environmental programs |
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