Govt 1

Question 1

Director of the National Security Council, and plays a major role in foreign affairs

Answer 1

National Security Advisor

Question 2

First women to be chosen as National Security Advisor

Answer 2

Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Question 3

Tasked with gathering and coordinating information about govt, economics, and armed forced

Answer 3

CIA

Question 4

Established the CIA and defined it duties in 1947

Answer 4

National Security Act

Question 5

Coordinates the intelligence activities of other agencies, and safeguards top secret information and conducts intelligence operations that the council authorizes

Answer 5

CIA

Question 6

Critics of the CIA have questioned the agency’s what?

Answer 6

Efficiency

Question 7

Inefficiency was the most evident after the CIA failed to predict Iraq’s invasion of?

Answer 7

Kuwait in 1990

Question 8

In 1991 what caught the CIA by surprise?

Answer 8

Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991

Question 9

Who determines what policies are to be followed?

Answer 9

President

Question 10

What gives congress significant foreign policy power?

Answer 10

Constitution

Question 11

What are these foreign policy powers?

Answer 11

Power to declare war, and appropriate money

Question 12

What balances the president’s powers as commander in chief by gathering congress the power to declare war?

Answer 12

Constitution

Question 13

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

Answer 13

5 times

Question 14

congress must authorize ___ for defense and foreign aid each year

Answer 14

funds

Question 15

President could not send troops into combat for more than how many days?

Answer 15

60