Foreign Policy

Question 1

Consists of the strategies and goals that guide a nation’s relations with other countrie and groups in the world

Answer 1

Foreign policy

Question 2

Protection of a nation’s borders and territories against invasion or control by foreign powers

Answer 2

National Securities

Question 3

____________ and _____________ need foreign markets in which to sell their goods

Answer 3

Factories; farms

Question 4

Avoidance of involvement in world affairs

Answer 4

Isolationism

Question 5

Made the goal of world peace an even greater challenge

Answer 5

Terrorist groups

Question 6

What is the basis of the US foreign policy?

Answer 6

Maintaining trade and preserving access to natural resources

Question 7

The US supports trade that is free from ___________?

Answer 7

Export and import restrictions

Question 8

Until the late 1800s, US foreign policy was based on ______________

Answer 8

Isolationism

Question 9

In 1823 James Monroe announced a new foreign policy known as _____________, which expanded our economy

Answer 9

Monroe Doctrine

Question 10

The US tries to help settle disputes and has even supplied _____________ aid to at-risk countries

Answer 10

Economic

Question 11

US leaders in the 1800s believed that the US needed to expand and acquire a ______________

Answer 11

Colonial Empire

Question 12

What countries did the US acquire after the Spanish American War?

Answer 12

Philippine Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico

Question 13

What drew the US into WW2?

Answer 13

Pearl Harbor

Question 14

The policy designed to keep the Soviet Union from expanding its powers is known as ___________

Answer 14

Containment

Question 15

The war between the US and the Soviet Union that was a war of ideologies and words

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Cold War

Question 16

The US remained _____________ when WW2 began

Answer 16

Neutral

Question 17

Between 1945 and 1949, the Soviet Union gained control over ____________________ countries

Answer 17

Eastern European

Question 18

American diplomat and expert on Soviet history and culture; Helped to create the containment policy

Answer 18

George F. Kennan

Question 19

What was the policy of the US after WW2?

Answer 19

Internationalism

Question 20

What year did the Soviet Union take control of North Korea?

Answer 20

1949

Question 21

Provided badly needed economic aid for war-torn western Europe

Answer 21

Marshall Plan

Question 22

What 2 wars were the US drawn into by the Cold War policy of containment?

Answer 22

Korea and Vietnam

Question 23

Who tore down the Berlin Wall between East Germany and West Germany in 1989?

Answer 23

Demonstrators

Question 24

Who sponsored the US sending troops into Korea?

Answer 24

UN

Question 25

What did Truman see the invasion of South Korea as?

Answer 25

Expansionism

Question 26

Global network of Islamic terrorists whose leaders are based in Afghanistan

Answer 26

al-Qaeda

Question 27

Who supervises military actions of the US?

Answer 27

Secretary of Defense

Question 28

Who supervises foreign relations of the US?

Answer 28

Secretary of State

Question 29

What must the US do to recognize a foreign country as a state?

Answer 29

Accept an ambassador

Question 30

Established the CIA and defined its duties

Answer 30

National Security Act

Question 31

Who directs the CIA?

Answer 31

National Security Council

Question 32

Who is the director of the National Security Council and plays a major role in foreign affairs?

Answer 32

National security advisors

Question 33

Determines what policies are to be followed

Answer 33

President

Question 34

Controls the power to declare war and appropriate money

Answer 34

Congress

Question 35

How many times has congress exercised the power to declare war?

Answer 35

5

Question 36

Smallest cabinet level department in terms of employees, originally known as the Department of Foreign Affairs; First executive department

Answer 36

Department of State

Question 37

Who is the current secretary of state?

Answer 37

John Kerry

Question 38

Largest of all executive depts. in terms of money spent and employees

Answer 38

Department of Defense

Question 39

The secretary of state is ____ in line for presidential succession

Answer 39

4th

Question 40

_____ assistant secretaries direct the ______ geographical bureaus of the State Dept

Answer 40

6

Question 41

An ambassador is appointed by the president and must be confirmed by the ___________

Answer 41

Senate

Question 42

The US maintains offices known as __________ in major cities of foreign nations

Answer 42

Consulates

Question 43

A ___________ heads each consulate

Answer 43

Consul

Question 44

Who was the leader of Iraq in 1990?

Answer 44

Saddam Hussein

Question 45

What country was invaded by Iraq putting Middle Eastern Oil industry at risk?

Answer 45

Kuwait

Question 46

In 1994, american soldiers preserved order in __________ when their president had to flee the country

Answer 46

Haiti

Question 47

Throughout the 90s _______________ sent US troops to several places in an attempt to maintain political order

Answer 47

Bill Clinton

Question 48

The UN inspections of Iraq were to keep Iraq from developing __________________

Answer 48

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Question 49

Special document issued by the govt of the country that a person wishes to enter

Answer 49

Visa

Question 50

Document issued to Americans traveling abroad by the State Department

Answer 50

Passport

Question 51

Founded after WW2 and military reorganization, would 2 years later become the DOD

Answer 51

National Security Establishment

Question 52

Who was the first woman selected to be National Security advisor?

Answer 52

Condoleeza Rice

Question 53

Formal agreement between the govts of two or more nations

Answer 53

Treaty

Question 54

The framers of the Constitution attempted to divide the responsibility for foreign affairs between the __________ and ______________

Answer 54

President and Congress

Question 55

What checked the president's powers by stating that a president could not send troops into another nation for more than 60 days with approval from Congress?

Answer 55

War Powers Act of 1973

Question 56

What does MFN stand for?

Answer 56

Most Favored Nation

Question 57

What country has permanent MFN status?

Answer 57

China

Question 58

Pacts between the president and the head of a foreign govt that acts as a treaty, but does not require congressional approval

Answer 58

Executive Agreements

Question 59

Founded in 1949 as a mutual defense alliance

Answer 59

NATO

Question 60

In 1949 the US signed a treaty establishing the ______________________ which is primarily concerned with promoting economic development in the Americas

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Organization of American States (OAS)

Question 61

Agreement that involves only 2 nations

Answer 61

Bilateral treaty

Question 62

International agreement signed by several nations

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Multilateral treaties

Question 63

Measures such as withholding loans, arms, or economic aid to force a foreign govt to cease certain activities

Answer 63

Sanctions

Question 64

Administers American programs of economic aid

Answer 64

Agency for International Development