Foreign Policy Flashcards
_______ consists of the strategies and goals that guide a nation’s relations with other countries and groups in the world.
Foreign Policy
________ means protection of a nation’s borders and territories against invasion or control by foreign powers
National Security
The United States tries to help other nations settle disputes and has also supplied ________ to at-risk countries.
Economic, humanitarian, financial aid
__________ is the avoidance of involvement in world affairs.
Isolationism
In 1898, the United States fought what war?
Spanish American War
Since World War II, foreign policy has been based on __________.
Internationalism
The _________ provided badly needed economic aid for war-torn Europe.
Marshall Plan
________ was the policy designed to keep the Soviet Union from expanding its powers.
Containment
What two wars did Cold War foreign policy draw the United States into?
Korea and Vietnam
In 1990, who was Iraq’s leader?
Saddam Hussein
What country was invaded by Iraq threatening Middle Eastern oil supplies?
Kuwait
In 1994, American troops preserved order in ______ when their president was forced to flee the country.
Haiti
Throughout the 1990s ____________ sent US forces to several places in attempts to maintain political order and protect humanitarian interests.
President Bill Clinton
The UN inspections of Iraq were aimed at keeping Iraq from developing _________.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Who was the first woman chosen to be National Security Adviser?
Dr. Condoleezza Rice
What established the CIA in 1947?
National Security Act
_______ is a formal agreement between the governments of two or more nations.
Treaty
What two cabinet departments make foreign policy a full time concern?
State and Defense Departments
The Framers of the Constitution attempted to divide the responsibility for foreign affairs between the ________ and ____________.
President and Congress
What checked the president’s powers by stating that a president could not send troops into combat for more than 60 days without Congress approval?
War Powers Act 1973
What does MFN stand for?
Most Favored Nation
How many times in our nation’s history have we declared war?
Five
What country has permanent MFN status?
China
_______ are pacts between the president and the head of a foreign government that have legal status of treaties but do not require Senate approval.
Executive Agreements
The _________ is one smallest cabinet-level departments in terms of employees, yet they carry out foreign policy.
Department of State
Created by Congress in 1789, the _________ was the first executive department.
Department of State
Who is the current Secretary of State?
John Kerry
Name two of the six geographical bureaus of the State Department.
Bureau of African Affairs, European and Eurasian Affairs, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Western Hemisphere Affairs, Near Eastern Affairs, South Asian Affairs
The primary function of an __________ is to make diplomatic communication between governments easier.
Embassy
