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Foreign and Defense Policy

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1. Foreign Policy How a nation deals with other countries.
2. United Nations International organization that aims to maintain international peace and to promote cooperation in solving international economic, social and humanitarian problems.
3. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Organization founded after World War II between the Allies. Acted as a front to contain communism.
4. European Union Economic and political union of several European countries.
5. Commander and Chief President's in the military.
6. War Powers Act Passed in 1973, gives Congress greater voice in the use of American forces abroad.
7. Department of State Federal department that deals with foreign nations.
8. Secretary of State Leader of the Department of State.
9. Department of Defense Department that deals with war and the military.
10. Secretary of Defense Leader of the Department of Defense.
11. Joint Chiefs of Staff Heads of the each of the military branches.
12. Central Intelligence Agency America's foreign intelligence gathering community.
13. National Security Agency (NSA) Agency that tries to keep domestic territories secure.
14. National Security Council Body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security.
15. Congress' "power of the purse" Congress is in control of the budget.
16. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senators that deal with foreign relations.
17. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Representatives that deal with foreign relations.
18. Isolationism Policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances.
19. Cold War Struggle between democratic and communist nations after WWII, especially the USA and USSR.
20. Containment American foreign policy to prevent the spread of communism.
21. Arms Race Competition between the US and USSR to get the most amount of weapons, mostly nuclear weapons.
22. Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) Having enough weapons on both sides to insure that both would be destroyed in a conflict.
23. Vietnam War War that the United States entered into in Vietnam in an effort to prevent the spread of Communism.
24. Detente Easing of tensions between the US and USSR.
25. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars" System that would destroy missiles in mid air with smaller missiles.
26. War on Terror Term first used by President Bush. Effort to stop terrorism, mostly Islamic.
27. Axis of Evil Term used for Iran, Iraq, and North Korea by Bush.
28. Afghanistan A country that many have invaded but none have defeated. Harbor of the Taliban.
29. Iraq Nation that America went to war with on belief that they had weapons of mass destruction.
30. Nuclear Proliferation Spread of nuclear weapons to other nations.
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