The United Nations
The location of the United Nations headquarters.
What is New York City?
The name for the conduct of relations among nations.
What is diplomacy?
Taxes on imported goods, used extensively before World War II.
What are tariffs?
Term used for racial segregation in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
This triggered the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq.
What was the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack?
Key alliance the U.S. and eleven other countries formed after World War II.
What was NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
One who serves as the highest ranking representative of one nation in another nation.
What is an Ambassador?
Subsidies to industries is one way in which governments work against this.
What is free trade?
The year America restored diplomatic relations with Cuba.
What is 2015?
The building where a terrorist bomb exploded in its underground garage in 1993.
What is the World Trade Center?
The International Organization that President Woodrow Wilson promoted after World War I.
What is the League of Nations?
DAILY DOUBLE: In the late 1970s, Iranian militants took over this and held Americans hostage for over a year.
What is the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran?
Trade agreement passed in 1993 involving Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
Many Americans participate in programs to expose and work to eliminate this form of slavery.
What is human trafficking?
An international agency that gathers information to help fight terrorism.
What is INTERPOL?
The most powerful body of the UN with the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, France, and China as permanent members.
What is the Security Council?
When a government in one country believes that the government of another country is legitimate.
What is diplomatic recognition?
Today almost all the countries of the world have this status with the United States.
What is NTR (Normal Trade Relations)?
A negative effect of this policy can be, the people of an oppressive country that violates human rights suffer, but the leadership elite usually do not.
What is boycotting?
Governments that aid and protect terrorists.
What are state sponsors of terrorism?
George Washington believed this was a "baneful foe of republican government".
What is foreign influence?
The U.S. sent aid to smaller countries in order to win support and keep them from officially aligning with their enemies during this war.
What is the Cold War?
Opponents of this fear it puts the U.S. at an economic disadvantage that might develop into a political and military disadvantage.
What is trade with China?
The country that Presidents Reagan and Bush carried on talks with and negotiated from a position of American strength.
What is the Soviet Union?
The ways the U.S. government might invade the privacy of American citizens by obtaining information about possible terrorists.
What is intercepting mail, phone calls, emails or other data?