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Foreign Policy
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Foreign Policy | strategies and goals that guide a nations relations with other countries. |
| National Security | protection of a nations borders and territories against invasion or control by foreign powers. |
| Isolationism | the avoidance of involvement in the world affairs |
| Internationalism | involvement in the world affairs |
| Monroe Doctrine | a new foreign policy |
| Containment | the policy designed to keep the soviet union from expanding its power |
| Detente | a relaxation of tensions between nations |
| Commander in Chief | may send troops, planes, ships, and weapons any where around the world without congressional approval |
| Head of State | the president represents the nation and peforms many ceremonial |
| Ambassador | an official of the goverment who represents the nation in diplomatic matters |
| Treaty | a formal agrrement between the goverments of two or more countries |
| Secretary of State | a person who supervises all the diplomatic activities of the American goverment |
| National Security Advisor | Director of the national Security Council staff |
| Secretary of Defence | A personn who supervise all the military of the American government |
| Central Intelligence Agency | gathers and collects information regarding goverments economic and armed forces of foreign nations |
| Executive Agreements | agreement made between the president and a head of state |
| Most-Favored- nation | Status to trading partners |
| Bipartisan | consisting of memebers of both major political parties |
| Embassy | An ambassador's offical residence and office in a foreign country. |
| Consulate | office that promotes American bussiness and safe guard its travelors in a foreign country. |
| Mutal Defense Alliances | Agreement between nation to support. |
| Regional Security Pacts | A mutual defense treaty amons nation of a region. |
| North Atlantic Treaty | A treaty that states the parties agree that are armed attacks against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack againist them all |
| Multilateral Treaties | Interantional agreement signed by several nations |
| Bilateral Treaties | agreement between two nations |
| Collective Security | a system by which the participatins nation agree to take joint action against a nation that attacks anyone of them. |
| Agency for International | administers American programs of economic aid worldwide. |
| Sanction | A measure such as withholding economic aid to influence a foreign governments activities. |
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