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Foreign/Defense P
Foreign and Defense Policy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1) Foreign Policy | self-interest strategies to protect national interests and keep goals within international relations |
| 2) United Nations | aim is to maintain cooperation in international law, security, eco development, social progress, human rights, and world peace |
| 3) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | members agree to mutual defense when responding to any external party attack |
| 4) European Union | eco/political union of which the members are mainly in Europe |
| The President and Foreign Policy 5) Commander and Chief | has supreme command authority of a nation's military |
| 6) War Powers Act | checks the power of the President in putting the US in an armed conflict w/o Congress' conflict |
| 7) Department of State | in charge of the US' international relations |
| 8) Secretary of State | responsible for some gov functions |
| 9) Department of Defense | coordinates/supervises all agencies/fcns of the gov that relates to national security |
| 10) Secretary of Defense | in charge of the Department of Defense and is the principal assistant to the President in issues related to the Department of Defense |
| 11) Joint Chiefs of Staff | leaders in the US Department of Defense that advise others of military matters |
| 12) Central Intelligence Agency | gives national security intelligence assessment to US policymakers |
| 13) National Security Agency (NSA) | collects and analyzes foreign communications/signals intelligence while protecting US communications/info systems |
| 14) National Security Council | coordinates policies on national security issues and advises chiefs executives on the matters |
| 15) Congress' "Power of the Purse" | ability to manipulate the actions of another group by withholding funding/stipulating funds |
| 16) Senate Foreign Relations Committee | leading foreign-policy legislation |
| 17) House Committee on Foreign Affairs | jurisdiction of bills/investigations relating to the US' foreign affairs |
| 18) Isolationism | isolates one country from the affairs of other nations |
| 19) Cold War | continuing state of political/military tension b/w the powers of the Western World |
| 20) Containment | uses many strategies to prevent communism from spreading |
| 21) Arms Race | competition b/w at least two parties for the best armed forces |
| 22) Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) | military strategy/national security policy where there's a full scale use of weapons of mass destruction resulting in complete annihilation |
| 23) Vietnam War | Cold-war era military conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia |
| 24) Detente | easing strained relations in political situations |
| 25) Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) | Ronald Reagan to use ground/space based systems to protect the US from attack of nuclear ballistic missiles |
| 26) War on Terror | international military campaign led by US with support of NATO and non-NATO countries |
| 27) Axis of Evil | Used by President Bush to describe govs that helped with terrorism and finding weapons of mass destruction |
| 28) Afghanistan | Nation that has maintained good relations with the US and NATO member states |
| 29) Iraq | US invaded Iraq with reason of Iraq failing to abandon nuclear/chemical weapons |
| 30) Nuclear Proliferation | spread of nuclear weapons and weapons-applicable nuclear tech and info to nations that aren't "Nuclear Weapon States" |
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