Foreign Policy
Vocabulary Checklist
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Alliances
Historic American Policies
100
Protecting United States territory, citizens and allies.
What is National Security?
100
Management of communications and relationship between nations by members and employees of each nation's government.
What is Diplomacy?
100
Difference between the value of a country's imports and exports.
What is Balance of Trade?
100
Trade agreement between The U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
100
No colonization by any European powers in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
200
Promoting free trade and ensuring American industries access to raw materials.
What is Economic Growth?
200
A meeting or conference of heads of state, especially to conduct diplomatic negotiations and ease international tensions.
What is Summit Meeting?
200
A maximum number or quanity that is permitted to entera nation to protect domestic products.
What is a Quota?
200
Economic alliances 25 European countries.
What is the European Union?
200
Equal trade for all nations with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
300
Settling conflicts and using American military resources to promote and keep peace between nations.
What is World Peace?
300
An association of groups, people, or nations who agree to cooperate to achieve a common goal.
What is an Alliance?
300
Commercial treaty between two or more nations explaining the conditions of trade.
What is Trade agreement?
300
Mutual defense and peaceful settlement of disputes (The United States and most countries in Latin America)
What is the Organization of American States?
300
The United States is destined to expand from th Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
Promoting the development of new democracies and protecting democracy around the globe.
What is Promoting Democracy?
400
An international alliance involving many different countries to improve international relations and solve global problems.
What is an International Organization?
400
A duty levied by a government on imported or exported goods from another country to protect domestic producers.
What is Sanctions?
400
Security pact to guarantee the security of Western Europe and other nations including the U.S. "An attack on one or more is an attack against the all."
What is is NATO?
400
America could launch the first strike to defend itself from terrorist and countries that support terrorist in order to prevent possible attacks before they occurred.
What is the Bush Doctrine?
500
Seeking humane treatment of all people around the world.
What is Human Rights?
500
A duty levied by a government on imported or exported goods from another country to protect domestic products.
What is a Tariff?
500
A government order restricting or prohibiting commerce, especially trade in a given commodity or with a particular nation.
What is an Embargo?
500
Provided mutual defense in case of attack (Australia, New Zealand, and the United States)
What is ANZUS?
500
Jan. 5, 1957 during the Cold War period after WWII, U.S. foreign-Policy pronouncement by president President Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any middle Eastern country needing help rwesisting Communist agression.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?