International Organizations
This International Organization gives legal advice to the United Nations and deals with international legal issues, such as a disagreement about borders between countries or crimes against humanity.
What is the World Court?
1. A person sent as the chief representative of his or her own government in another country
2. Policies only implemented within your country
1. Who is an ambassador?
2. What is Domestic Policy
Describe two international organizations, state their aims, and provide at least one example of the work they do.
Answers will vary
1. The war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, U.S., Japan, Romania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
2. The bombing of a military base in Hawaii led to the United States joining this war.
1. What is World War I?
2. What is World War II?
What is it called when the media portrays images a certain way to make us feel certain emotions? (hint: usually create these when they need support for a war)
Propaganda
A formal agreement between countries
Treaty
This 193 member organization was created to keep peace around the world and develop friendly relationship among nations.
What is the United Nations?
1. Who is in charge the state department?
2. What is the job of the state department?
1. Secretary of State
2. State department is in charge of handling foreign affairs
Name four international organizations that the United States is a member of
United Nations, North American Free Trade Agreement, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, World Trade Organizations, Red Cross/Red Crescent.
What do the Korean War & Vietnam War have in common?
Reason for involvement: containment (stopping the spread of communism)
Which influential document was signed in 1215 AD and gave the people a voice in taxation without representation?
Magna Carta
1. What is a foreign policy and give two examples:
2. What is a domestic policy and give two examples:
1. Outside the country government plan of action: examples: war, negotiating treaties
2. Inside the country governmental plan of action: examples: unemployment, healthcare, education, crime
1. Which International Organization was formed at the height of the Cold War?
2. Allows free trade among the United States, Canada, and Mexico and has helped with trade, created jobs, and encouraged the economic growth of its members.
1. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
2. What is NAFTA?
A group of 28 countries that have agreed to protect each other in case of attack; they formed NATO to protect themselves against the Soviet Union and its communist allies
What is NATO?
These TWO organizations deal with TRADE
WTO and NAFTA
Soviets removed missiles from Cuba and U.S removed Missiles from Turkey and Italy.
Cuban Missile Crisis
In October 1962, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff over the placement of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The work of keeping good relations between the governments of different countries
What is diplomacy?
1. Helps poor countries get money to build and assist in poverty
2. Focuses on a variety of children's issues throughout the world
1.The World Bank
2. U.N.I.C.E.F
1. What are the roles of the President and Congress in Foreign policy (name 3 each)
2. What are the roles of congress in Foreign policy (name 3 each)
President:
1) negotiates treaties
2) appoints ambassadors and secretary of state
3) Commander-in-chief
4) Chief Diplomat
Congress:
1) Ratifies treaties
2) Confirms ambassadors & Secretary of State
3) Provides federal funding to conduct foreign policy
4) Declares war
A treaty between U.S.A, Mexico and Canada to eliminate most taxes (Tariffs) between the three countries.
N.A.F.T.A North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement
U.S embassy in Iraq was taken capture American hostages taken for 444 days
Iran Hostage Crisis
The federal department of the U. S. government that makes foreign policies; part of the executive branch of the federal government
What is the U.S. State Department?
An agency of the United Nations established in 1946 to help governments improve the health and education of children and their mothers
What is the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) ?
A formal agreement among the governments of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to form a free trade zone in North America and eliminate taxes on the buying and selling of each other’s products
What is North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
What is the difference between foreign & domestic policy?
Foreign policy: policies for dealing with other countries and events outside of the United States
Domestic Policy: policies for dealing with the United States and events within the United States
1. Alliance
2. Tariff
1. An agreement between countries to protect each other
2. A tax on trade
A government’s decisions about relationships with other countries
What is foreign policy?
The right to be protected against illegal searches and seizures
What is the Fourth Amendment?
An organization formed with groups of governments for a specific purpose
What are intergovernmental organizations?
1. Penalties applied to a country for breaking an international law
2. The work of keeping good relations between the governments of different countries
1. What is economic sanction
2. What is diplomacy?
A person sent as the chief representative of his or her own government to another country
What is an ambassador?