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Foreignicated Policy
Foreign and Defense Policy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Foreign Policy | A policy governing international relations |
| 2. United Nations | An international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace, security, and cooperation |
| 3. North Atlantic Treaty Organization | An association of European and North American countries, formed in 1949 for the defense of Europe and the North Atlantic against the perceived threat of Soviet aggression |
| 4. European Union | An economic and political association of European countries as a unit with internal free trade and common external tariffs |
| 5. Commander and Chief | The commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function |
| 6. War Powers Act | United States Congress joint resolution providing that the President can send U.S. armed forces into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or if the United States is already under attack or serious threat |
| 7. Department of State | The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies |
| 8. Secretary of State | The head of the State Department, responsible for foreign affairs |
| 9. Department of Defense | The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States |
| 10. Secretary of Defense | The head of the Defense Department, responsible for defense of the nation |
| 11. Joint Chiefs of Staff | The chiefs of staff of the US Army and Air Force, the commandant of the US Marine Corps, and the chief of US Naval Operations |
| 12. Central Intelligence Agency | An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest |
| 13. National Security Agency | A secret body established in the US after World War II to gather intelligence, deal with coded communications from around the world, and safeguard US transmissions |
| 14. National Security Council | A body created in the US by Congress after World War II to advise the president (who chairs it) on issues relating to national security in domestic, foreign, and military policy |
| 15. Congress' "Power of the Purse" | The ability of one group to manipulate and control the actions of another group by withholding funding, or putting stipulations on the use of funds |
| 16. Senate Foreign Relations Committee | It is charged with leading foreign-policy legislation and debate in the Senate |
| 17. House Committee on Foreign Affairs | A standing committee of the United States House of Representatives which has jurisdiction over bills and investigations related to the foreign affairs of the United States |
| 18. Isolationism | A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, esp. the political affairs of other countries. George Washington wanted this when America gained its independence. |
| 19. Cold War | A state of political hostility between U.S.S.R. and U.S. Led to huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons for both countries and climaxed at the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| 20. Containment | The action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence. Used after WWII to stop spread of communism. |
| 21. Arms Race | A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons |
| 22. Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) | A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender |
| 23. Vietnam War | Lasted from 1955-1975. U.S. Government spent over $700 billion (in today's money) and over 58,000 U.S. soldiers were killed. |
| 24. Detente | State of armed peace between the West and the Soviet Union during the late 1960's and early 1970's. Contrary to the beginning of the Cold War, during Detente both sides agreed that there should not be any (open) strategy to improve their position |
| 25. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars" | Reagan developed strategy to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles |
| 26. War on Terror | Originally, the campaign was waged against al-Qaeda and other militant terrorist organizations with the purpose of eliminating them. |
| 27. Axis of Evil | Term used by G.W. Bush describing governments that he accused of helping terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction |
| 28. Afghanistan | To disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and stop all terrorist organizations in Afghanistan |
| 29. Iraq | To stop Suddam Hussein for developing Weapons of Mass Destruction, violating United Nations Resolutions, and the threat Iraq poses on the U.S. and the international community. |
| 30. Nuclear Proliferation | Term used to describe the spread of nuclear weapons, fissile material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information, to nations which are not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty |
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