A principle stating that the US should tend to its own domestic affairs rather than to international affairs.
What is an Isolationist policy?
100
US foreign policy is to keep out of European wars, but also that the US would not tolerate European interference in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
A US diplomatic center in another country.
What is an Embassy?
100
The supervision of US military activities is handled by this department.
What is the Department of Defense?
100
Preserving national security.
What is the most important goal of US foreign policy?
200
A viewpoint where the US should take an active role in international affairs.
What is an Internationalist approach?
200
The US needs to contain communism because communism is a threat to democracy.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
The chief diplomat in a given embassy.
What is an ambassador?
200
The role of this department is to promote good relations between the US and other countries.
What is the State Department?
200
The stoppage of trade and commerce between two contries.
What is a trade embargo?
300
The US should use military intervention when necessary and our interests include national security as well as international trade.
What is realism?
300
After WWII the US helped restore Western European nations to economic stability by providing them with $13 billion in aid.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
A personal representative of the President.
What is an Ambassador?
300
The main goal of this department is to prevent terrorism.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
300
Economic and military assistance to foreign countries.
What is foreign aid?
400
A theory that argues for an internationalist policy, but one that promotes the rights and interests of people in other countries as well as those in the US.
What is an Idealist?
400
After WWI President Woodrow Wilson tried to create the ____________, the precursor to the United Nations, to promote world peace.
What is the League of Nations?
400
A formal document issued by a government for travel to another country.
What is a passport?
400
Their main goal is to provide the President and other departments with necessary information.
What is the Director of National Intelligence?
400
Agreements between countries in which they pledge to come to each other’s aid in case of an attack.
What are defense alliances?
500
The US should keep its foreign involvement to a minimum for the good of other nations and the US.
What is Neoisolationism?
500
After the Vietnam War the US started trying to relax tensions between communist countries.
What is Detente?
500
The US maintains ____________ in foreign countries to protect our commercial interests.
What is a consulate?
500
The most influential group of people who advises the president on military matters.
Who are the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
500
Unified defense alliance between the US and Western Europe to where an attack on one meant an attack on all.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?