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American Foreign Policy
The Policymakers
An Overview on Foreign Policy
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A policy that involves choice taking, like domestic policy, but additionally, involves choices about relations with the rest of the world.
What is foreign policy?
100
The head of the Department of State and traditionally a key adviser to the president on foreign policy.
Who is the Secretary of State?
100
A foreign policy course followed throughout most of our nation's history whereby the United States has tried to stay out of other nation's conflicts, particularly European wars.
What is isolationism?
200
What do Military, Economics, and Diplomacy all have in common?
What are the 3 instruments of Foreign Policy?
200
The head of the Department of Defense and the president's key adviser on military policy; a key foreign policy actor.
Who is the Secretary of Defense?
200
A foreign policy strategy advocated by George Kennan that called for the United States to isolate the Soviet Union, "contain" it's advances, and resist it encroachments by peaceful means if possible but by force if necessary.
What is a containment doctrine?
300
Created in 1945, an organization whose members agree to renounce war and to respect certain human and economic freedoms.
What is the United Nations?
300
The commanding officers of the armed services who advise the president on military policy.
Who are the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
300
War by other than military means usually emphasizing ideological conflict, such as that between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of World War II until the 1990s.
What is a Cold War?
400
Created in 1949, an organization whose members include the United States, Canada, most Western European nations, and Turkey, all of whom agreed to combine military forces and to treat a war against one as a war against all.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? (NATO)
400
An agency created after World War II to coordinate American intelligence activities abroad. It became involved in intrigue, conspiracy, and meddling as well.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency? (CIA)
400
The fear, prevalent in the 1950s, that international communism was conspiratorial, insidious, bent on world domination, and infiltrating American government and cultural institutions. It was named after Senator Joseph McCarthy and flourished after the Korean War.
What is McCarthyism?
500
A transnational government composed of most European nations that coordinates monetary, trade, immigration, and labor policies, making its members one economic unit. An example of regional organization.
What is the European Nation?
500
The national legislative body of a country.
What is Congress?
500
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.
What is an arms race?