Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy
National Security
American Foreign Policy Overview
Foreign Aid & Defense Alliances
Current Events
100
The official representative of a sovereign state in the conduct of its foreign affairs.
What is an ambassador?
100
The basic purpose has always been to protect the security and well-being of the United States
What is the primary goal of American foreign policy?
100
Economic and military are the two kinds of this.
What is foreign aid?
100
Makes recommendations on how the United Nations can work better
What is the General Assembly?
200
The relationships between America and other nations around the world.
What are foreign affairs?
200
The mission to expand the boundaries of a country across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny
200
The principle of foreign policy led to the creation of the United Nations.
What is collective security?
200
As the civil service branch of the UN, it is lead by the secretary-general who leads some 40,000 men and women who conduct the day-to-day work of the UN in New York and elsewhere around the globe.
What is the Secretariat?
200
In 2012, this country recieved $3.075 billion in foreign aid.
What is Israel?
300
The department of the government that serves as the President's "right arm" in foreign affairs.
What is the State Department?
300
They are in charge of border and transportation security, infrastructure protection, emergence preparedness and response, chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense, and information analysis.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
300
From 1948 - 1949, this was one time when the US and Soviet Russia butted heads during the cold war.
What was the Berlin blockade?
300
This discontinued organization monitored the way in which various UN members met their responsibility in their administration.
What was the Trusteeship Council?
300
After 9/11, foreign aid to this country went from $9.1 million to $4.2 billion.
What is Pakistan?
400
This body is made up of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the vice chairman, the army chief of staff, the chief of national operations, the commandant of the Marine Corps, and the air force chief of staff.
What are the six members of the Joint Chief of Staff?
400
A conscious attempt to win friends in the south by reducing the nation's political and military interventions in the region.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
400
The alliance formed initially to promote the collective defense of Western Europe, particularly against the threat of Soviet aggression.
What is NATO?
400
The General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice, and the Secretariat make up this organization.
What is the United Nations?
400
This event received $209 million dollars in foreign aid from different countries.
What was 9/11?
500
This act provides that the secretary of defense cannot have served on active duty in any of the armed forces for at least 10 years prior to being named to that post.
What is the National Security Act of 1947?
500
It promoted equal trade access for all nations, and demanded that China's independence and sovereignty over its own territory be preserved.
What did the Open Door policy demand?
500
A period of 40 years during which relations between the two superpowers, US and Russia, were tense and hostile, becoming a period of threats, posturing, and military build up.
What was the Cold War?
500
Creates when the countries at the United Nations Conference on International Organization met and drafted the United Nations Charter.
What is the United Nations?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Obama increased the amount of foreign aid by this much.
What is 80%?
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