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Policy that involves choice taking about relations with the rest of the world. The president is the chief initiator of US foreign policy
Foreign Policy
The UN is what actor on the world stage?
International Organizations
A tense relationship beginning in the 1950s between the Soviet Union and the United States whereby one side’s weaponry became the other side’s goad to procure more weaponry, and so on.
Arms race
Discussion of foreign policymaking must first begin with which policymaker?
The President
What is a tax added to imported goods to raise their price, thereby protecting business and workers from foreign competition?
Tariff
Created in 1945 and currently including 193 member nations
United Nations
Amnesty Internation is what type of organization on the world stage?
Non governmental organization
The hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union, which often brought them to the brink of war and which spanned the period from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern European communist regimes in 1989 and the years following.
The Cold War
The Chief Diplomat does what?
The commander in chief does what?
What is another name of these positions?
Chief Diplomat- Negotiates Treaties
Commander in Chief- Deploys American Troops abroad
President
South Africa: The US imposed sanctions in the ’80s to the demise of apartheid
A transitional government composed of most European nations that coordinate monetary, trade, immigration, etc.
European Union
The Arab League is what type of organization on the world stage?
Regional Organization
A foreign policy strategy advocated by George Kennan that called for the United States to isolate the Soviet Union, “contain” its advances, and resist its encroachments by peaceful means if possible but by force if necessary.
Containment Doctrine
What can Congress do under the foreign policy?
(Name 3)
declare war, raise and organize the armed forces, etc.
What happened in 1988 with the U.S and USSR?
1988: President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF)
The foreign policy course the US followed throughout most of its history whereby it tried to stay out of other nations' conflicts, particularly Euro. wars.
Isolation
The US, CIA, and the influence of Multinational corporations overthrew what country on September 1, 1973?
BONUS: What gov. was this country under at this time?
Marxist Chile
An agency created after World War II to coordinate American intelligence activities abroad and to collect, analyze, and evaluate intelligence.
CIA
What is a check on Executive Branch that Congress does to balance defense policy
Senators and Representatives carefully examine defense budget authorizations.
How many deaths occurred in 2013 due to the act of Terrorism?
2013: 18,000 deaths
A policy, beginning in the early 1970s, that sought a relaxation of tensions between the US and the USSR, coupled with firm guarantees of mutual security
Detente
Nestle is what type of organization on the world stage?
Multinational Organization
A group that consists of the commanding officers of each of the armed services, a chairperson, and a vice chairperson, and advises the president on military policy.
Joint Cheif of Staffs
At the end of WWII, how many treaties have the president negotiated?
about 800 treaties
What does SDI stand for? What is it?
Strategic Defense Initiative
Creating a global umbrella in space where computers scan the skies and use high-tech devices to destroy invading missiles (Star wars).