Chapter 16: Foreign Policy

Question 1

Isolationism

Answer 1

A belief that America should not involve itself in the quarrels of Europeans and Asia and should pursue a plocy of military nonintervention

Question 2

Foreign policy

Answer 2

Efforts to pursue national objectives beyond the geographic boundaries of the nation by engaging either diplomatically or militarily with one or more for even nations or multinational organizations

Question 3

Internationalism

Answer 3

A foreign policy perspective that concludes that America’s interest in peace abroad and liberty at hone requires its permenant involvement in world affairs

Question 4

Cold war

Answer 4

An era of intense ideological tension between the soviet union and its allies lasting from roughly the end of world war II to the collapse of the solviet union in 1991

Question 5

Truman doctrine

Answer 5

A policy proclaimed by president Harry Truman in 1947, in which the United states would oppose the expansion ofcommunisim anywhere in the world

Question 6

Marshal Plan

Answer 6

A multibillion-dollar American program begun after World War II for the economic rehabilitation of western Europe

Question 7

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Answer 7

Multinational organization formed in 1949 to provide for mutual defense against foreign attacks

Question 8

Detente

Answer 8

A French word meaning “relaxation” that was applied to Solviet-American relations in the early 1970s

Question 9

Nixon Doctrine

Answer 9

Proclaimed by president Nixon in 1969,a policy stipulating that the United States will support its allies with economic and military aid but that the allies should provide the bulk of the man power for their own defense

Question 10

Department of state

Answer 10

Responsible for the routine daily functions of foreign policy, that represents the United States, abroad, it is involved in international negotiations, supervises foreign aid and programs, promotes cultural and educational exchange, and makes policy recommendations to the president

Question 11

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Answer 11

Agency of the state department that coordinates economic assistance programs

Question 12

Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP)

Answer 12

An agency of the State Department that directs overseas information programs

Question 13

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Answer 13

Agency, established by the National Security Act of 1947, that is responsible for gathering information and coordinating foreign intelligence operations in the federal government

Question 14

Department of Defense (DOD)

Answer 14

Established by the National Security Act of 1947 responsible for formulating military policy and maintaining the armed forces

Question 15

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

Answer 15

Headshot the various armed services and their chair that advise the president and the secretary of defense on important military questions

Question 16

Multinational corporations

Answer 16

Large companies in that carry on business in two or more countries simultaneously

Question 17

Military-industrial complex

Answer 17

The Pentagon, defense contractors, unions in the defense industry, members of Congress whose states or districts receive considerable military funds, and academic strategies whose work is funded by the military

Question 18

Homeland security

Answer 18

The effort of protecting United States soil, particularly from foreign or terrorist attack

Question 19

Developing nations

Answer 19

anions whose standard of living lags far behind that of the industrialized states

Question 20

International monetary fund (IMF)

Answer 20

A specialized agency of the United Nations designed to promote international monetary cooperation

Question 21

World Bank

Answer 21

a specialized agency of the United Nation that makes loans to poorer nations for economic development