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ByrneNoah V
AP American Government Foreign and Defense Policy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1 - Foreign Policy | Nat. govt. policy relating to other countries. |
| 2 - United Nations | Group of nations formed after WWII. +More successful version of League of Nations |
| 3 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | Agreement between US, Canada, and Mexico to lower tariffs between each other. |
| 4 - European Union | Group of European nations. +If one is attacked, all declare war on the aggressor. |
| 5 - Commander and Chief | Pres. of the US. +As leader of the army |
| 6 - War Powers Act | Restricts pres. war actions made before asking Congress to declare war. |
| 7 - Department of State | Agency for foreign policy decisions. |
| 8 - Secretary of State | Leader of the Department of State. |
| 9 - Department of Defense | Runs US military. |
| 10 - Secretary of Defense | Leader of the Department of Defense. |
| 11 - Joint Chiefs of Staff | Cabinet members. |
| 12 - Central Intelligence Agency | Agency that gathers intel. for nat. govt. |
| 13 - National Security Agency (NSA) | Gathers foreign information and communications. +Uses cryptographers |
| 14 - National Security Council | Discusses domestic and foreign security issues. +Advises and assists president |
| 15 - Congress' "power of the purse" | Congress has the power to fund programs. |
| 16 - Senate Foreign Relations Committee | Covers and passes foreign policy bills. +Senate |
| 17 - House Committee on Foreign Affairs | Covers bills and investigations related to foreign policy. +House +Less powerful than Senate version |
| 18 - Isolationism | Policy of non-foreign involvement. +Practiced by US before WWII |
| 19 - Cold War | Stand-off between US and USSR between WWII's end and the fall of the USSR. |
| 20 - Containment | Strategy to contain USSR from expanding communism until the USSR collapsed from within. |
| 21 - Arms Race | US and USSR race in created the largest military. +During Cold War |
| 22 - Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) | US program to ensure enough nuclear capacity that the US could destroy its aggressor, even as the US would be destroyed. +Opposed by US group titled SANE |
| 23 - Vietnam War | A messy conflict never declared a war. |
| 24 - Détente | Pres. Nixon's strategy to develop a stronger relationship with the USSR by playing it and China off of each other. |
| 25 - Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars" | US plan to create satellites with lasers able to shoot down long-range nuclear weapons. +This plan scared the USSR +This plan did not succeed |
| 26 - War on Terror | US battling to defeat extremist, terrorist groups. |
| 27 - Axis of Evil | Countries named by pres. Bush as supporting terrorist activities. |
| 28 - Afghanistan | Conflict within Afghanistan, between US and USSR, made SALT II fail. |
| 29 - Iraq | Iraq war began to find WMD. |
| 30 - Nuclear Proliferation | Spread among nations of access to nuclear weapons. +Most nations oppose this spread |
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