Category #1
Marco Rubio is the current Secretary of _________.
What is Secretary of State?
When the U.S. gets other countries to follow their wishes with aid and influence, it is using _________ power.
What is soft power?
When the U.S. uses threats, the military, or violence to get other countries to follow their wishes they are using __________ power.
What is hard power?
This is the amount of four-year-terms a president is legally allowed to serve.
What is two?
A president can do this to a law that is passed by Congress if they don't like it.
What is veto?
The Supreme Court falls under this branch of government.
What is the judicial branch?
What is intelligence gathering?
This federal department is the most important group for diplomacy and foreign policy.
The Department of ____________.
What is Department of State?
This is the title of a diplomat who represents the U.S. overseas - starts with the letter a.
What is an ambassador?
This deters countries from using nuclear weapons on each other as it may mean the destruction of humanity.
What is mutually assured destruction?
This is the minimum age requirement to become president of the United States.
What is 35 years old?
What is commander-in-chief?
This term refers to when the federal government deals with people living outside of the country.
___________ policy.
What is foreign policy?
This term refers to when the federal government talks and makes deals with other countries and starts with the letter "d."
What is diplomacy?
This is the title of a piece of land overseas that technically belongs to the United States where U.S. ambassadors conduct their business.
What is an embassy?
The _____________ policy applied by the U.S. had a goal of stopping the spread of Communism worldwide.
What is containment policy?
These are the state elections that candidates must win to become their party's main candidate for the presidential election.
What are primaries and caucuses?
To override a presidential veto, Congress needs this much of a majority vote in favor of a vetoed law.
What is two-thirds?
The trading of goods and money between nations is called ___________ exchange.
What is economic exchange?
This is a military alliance between the United States and 32 other nations.
What is NATO?
This person is in charge of casting the tie-breaking vote in the Senate when there is a tie.
Who is the vice-president?
These are used by presidents to force departments within the executive branch to follow specific protocols.
What is an executive order?
Federal anti-trust laws are implemented to keep rich business owners from creating _____________.
What are monopolies?
The managing of taxes and spending by the federal government within society is called ____________ policy.
What is fiscal policy?
Doing what is best for the nation is the definition of national ___________.
What is national interest?
This theory of presidential powers argues that the president should just defer to Congress in all matters.
What is limited president theory?
This theory of presidential powers argues that the president should do anything they want as long as the Constitution doesn't explicitly forbid it.
What is the stewardship theory?
This refers to the unfair redrawing of voting district lines in order for a party to maintain an advantage in the House of Reps.
What is gerrymandering?
When Congress is divided and can't seem to pass any new laws, it is called legislative ____________.
What is legislative deadlock?
The Supreme Court analyzes whether laws fall within the rules of the Constitution through the process of __________ __________.
What is judicial review?