Government Chapter 4

Question 1

What is foreign policy?

Answer 1

Our diplomatic policy and how we interact with other nations.

Question 2

What are the goals of foreign policy?

Answer 2

The mains goals of foreign policy are to keep the peace with other nations, maintain a balance of power between countries, and working with allies to solve international problems.

Question 3

Whose job is it to define and direct foreign policy?

Answer 3

The State Department

Question 4

What is diplomacy?

Answer 4

The U.S. Department of State manages America’s relationships with foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries. The management of all of these relationships is called diplomacy. It is essentially the art and science of maintaining peaceful relationships between nations, groups, or individuals.

Question 5

How do the President and Congress work together in foreign policy?

Answer 5

The president signs treaties with advice and consent of the senate.
The president has the power to nominate ambassadors and appointments are made with the advice and consent of the Senate. The State Department formulates and implements the president’s foreign policy. Learn more about ambassadors, diplomatic history, and American embassies.

Question 6

What is the sec. of states job?

Answer 6

usually principal foreign policy adviser

Question 7

Foreign service- who is this?

Answer 7

ambassadors- they help manage political and economic relations with a specific country.

Question 8

National Security Council/Advisor - who makes up this council?

Answer 8

The president, vice president, sec. of state, attorney general and several others

Question 9

Central Intelligence Agency - what do they do? Who appoints the director?

Answer 9

collects, evaluates, and disseminates vital information on economic, military, political, scientific, and other developments abroad to safeguard national security. The president appoints the director

Question 10

Talk about the United Nations-

Answer 10

It was created to help maintain international peace and stability. It was formed in 1945. It was originally 51 member states. Headquarters: NYC - 193 members- 195 countries - 2 are non member observers

Question 11

Goals of the UN - 4 main goals

Answer 11

International peace and security
Friendly relations
Solve international problems
Harmonizing Actions

Question 12

UN Bodies - Give 2 main bodies and their membership

Answer 12

General Assembly - 193 Represented
Security Council - 15

Question 13

UN Membership - how many? How do countries join? Who can join?

Answer 13

A recommendation for admission from the Security Council requires affirmative votes from at least nine of the council’s fifteen members. States are admitted to membership in the United Nations by a decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. Membership in the Organization, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, “is open to all peace-loving States that accept the obligations contained in the United Nations Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able to carry out these obligations”.

Question 14

What is the relationship between the US and the UN?

Answer 14

The US is a charter member of the United Nations and one of five permanent member of the UN security council.

Question 15

How does US support monetarily?

Answer 15

providing weapons, financial aid and sometimes soldiers

Question 16

What are some criticisms of the UN?

Answer 16

expanded roll, overstepping boundaries, and not effective enough

Question 17

Two Presidencies Thesis - explain the 2 ideas of the thesis

Answer 17

President over foreign affairs, president over domestic affiars.

Question 18

What are some approaches to foreign policy?

Answer 18

Security, prosperity, and the creation of a better world are the three most prominent goals of American foreign policy. Security, the protection of America’s interests and citizens, is a perennial concern, but America has tried to achieve security in different ways throughout its long history.

Question 19

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer 19

The United States would not get involved in European affairs.
The United States would not interfere with existing European colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
No other nation could form a new colony in the Western Hemisphere.
The United States would not get involved in European affairs.
The United States would not interfere with existing European colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
No other nation could form a new colony in the Western Hemisphere.

Question 20

World War II and US isolation - how did it affect isolationism

Answer 20

Isolationists believed that World War II was ultimately a dispute between foreign nations and that the United States had no good reason to get involved. The best policy, they claimed, was for the United States to build up its own defenses and avoid antagonizing either side.

Question 21

talk about containment

Answer 21

Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. The name was loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire, which was containment of the Soviet Union in the Interbellum period.

Question 22

What is the domino theory?

Answer 22

if one country fall to communism then they all fall

Question 23

Truman doctrine

Answer 23

The Truman Doctrine, also known as the policy of containment, was President Harry Truman’s foreign policy that the US would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries under the threat of communist influences in order to prevent the expansion of communism.

Question 24

Cold War - what is it? When did it occur?

Answer 24

As World War II transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased. Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the Cold War.

Question 25

Berlin Wall - what happened?

Answer 25

Why was the Berlin Wall built? The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies.

Question 26

proxy war

Answer 26

Wars fought between countries w/support of a superpower
Korean War, Vietnam, Afghanistan War

Question 27

What are the arms and space race?

Answer 27

A race between the United States and the Soviet Union to get to space first and to create the larger nuclear weapons.

Question 28

Talk about GA government

Answer 28

Reconstruction:1865-1871
Republican Gov’t and Military Rule
1865 - Election of Delegates to Const. Convention
Voters:
White Males
Loyalty Oath
12/1865 - Ratify the 13th Amendment
12/20/1865 - Pres. Johnson returned Government to elected officials
Why did Republicans win?
Biracial Coalition
Many Democrats had been part of CSA Gov’t and could not take part
1872 - Dem James Smith governor - 130 year record for Dems as governors of the state.

Question 29

County Unit System - what is this and what did it mean for those running for office? Do we still use this system? Why?

Answer 29

1917-1962
Each County between 2 and 6 votes
The 8 counties with the highest population - 6 votes
The smallest counties - 2 votes
410 Unit Votes - 206 needed to win
Under the county unit system, the 159 counties in Georgia were divided by population into three categories. The largest eight counties were classified as “Urban”, the next-largest 30 counties were classified as “Town”, and the remaining 121 counties were classified as “Rural”.

Question 30

How many constitutions have governed the state of ga?

Answer 30

10

Question 31

How many branches of Government in Georgia?

Answer 31

there are 3 (legislative, executive and judicial branches)

Question 32

Does GA have a Bill of Rights? If so, what was it originally called?

Answer 32

yes and Its originally called the declaration of fundamental rights.

Question 33

When was the constitution ratified that GA uses now?

Answer 33

January 2, 1788

Question 34

How is the Constitution of GA amended?

Answer 34

Georgia has used three different methods of constitutional revision: seven were revised by constitutional conventions, two by constitutional commissions, and one by the office of legislative counsel of the Georgia General Assembly.

Question 35

What are the 2 parts of the General Assembly?

Answer 35

its unicameral and bicameral

Question 36

Qualifications to run for each house.

Answer 36

Members of the House are elected every two years and must be 25 years of age, a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and a resident of the state (but not necessarily the district) they represent.

Question 37

How long are the terms that general assembly members serve and how many can they serve?

Answer 37

With its 180 members from districts across the state, the House of Representatives is the larger of the 2 chambers of the General Assembly. Its members serve 2-year terms and each January convene to set the state’s annual operating budget and address state priorities from agricultural development to tax policy.

Question 38

Who is your representative in the GA House and in the GA Senate?

Answer 38

Andrew Fergusin

Question 39

Legislative Process? - Compare this to the US Federal legislative process

Answer 39

State governments are organized like the federal government, with a legislature, an executive branch headed by a governor, and a court system.

Question 40

Governor - qualifications, powers, term limits, how they run/are elected

Answer 40

Governor’s Budgetary Powers
Sets revenue estimate with Office of Planning and Budget
Most money goes to
Half of money is from _____________
Governor also has informal powers
Director of the state budget
Budgetary decisions for any department
Discretionary budget

Question 41

Lt. Governor - qualifications, power, term limits, how they run/are elected

Answer 41

Presides over
Office created by 1945 Constitution
Governor to two consecutive four year terms. A former professional baseball player and successful entrepreneur, Geoff Duncan has served as Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor since his inauguration in January of 2019.

Question 42

Sec. of State of GA - What job does this position fulfill?

Answer 42

The Georgia Secretary of State oversees voting, tracks annual corporate filings, grants professional licenses, and oversees the state’s securities’ market. Secretary Brad Raffensperger and his staff are honored to serve the citizens of Georgia. Get to know Georgia’s Secretary of State.

Question 43

Atty. General - What job does this position fulfill?

Answer 43

The principal duties of the Attorney General are to: Represent the United States in legal matters. Supervise and direct the administration and operation of the offices, boards, divisions, and bureaus that comprise the

Question 44

Judicial System - How many levels of courts does GA have?

Answer 44

The Georgia court system has six classes of trial-level courts: the superior, state, juvenile, probate, magistrate, and municipal courts. There are two appellate-level courts: the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.

Question 45

Local Gov - What does the U.S. Constitution say about local government?

Answer 45

Dillon’s Rule:
County Government - 159 Counties
May be governed by an elected Board of Commissioners
Make policy and Pass laws
Municipalities or Town Government
Performs at least 3 services for citizens
Have at least 6 meeting’s a year
Hold regular city elections

Question 46

Coweta County and Fayette County - who runs the county government?

Answer 46

a board of commissioners.

Question 47

Municipality/Town - 3 conditions to be a municipality?

Answer 47

A minimum population of 20,000 ( for hilly regions 10000)
A minimum annual income of Rs. 5 lakhs.
A semi-Urban area possessing electricity, transportation, drinking water, communication and similar other basic facilities.

Question 48

1965 Voting Rights Act

Answer 48

This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.Feb 8, 2022

Question 49

Voter Photo ID - when did this begin? What photo id’s can be used to vote?

Answer 49

drivers liscense, passport. began in 2006

Question 50

Lobbyist - what is a lobbyist and what does it mean for GA? How many lobbyists are in GA? (Rough number)

Answer 50

Lobbyists are professional advocates that work to influence political decisions on behalf of individuals and organizations. This advocacy could lead to the proposal of new legislation, or the amendment of existing laws and regulations.

Question 51

What is working the ropes?

Answer 51

Lobbyist cant go into the house so they have to stay behind a certain point to talk and get heir points across.