Unit 5

Question 1

Foreign Policy

Answer 1

: a policy that involves choice taking, like domestic policy, but additionally involves choices about relations with the rest of the world.

Question 2

Instruments of Foreign Policy:

Answer 2

military, economic, diplomatic

Question 3

United Nations

Answer 3

s: created in 1945, an organization whose members agree to renounce war and respect certain human and economic freedoms

Question 4

real seat of power in un

Answer 4

security council

Question 5

how many members does the security council have

Answer 5

15, 5 with veto power

Question 6

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Answer 6

: Created in 1949, an organization whose members include the United States, Canada, most western European nations, and Turkey, all of whom agreed to combine military forces and to treat a war against one as a war against all

Question 7

European Union

Answer 7

: a transnational government composed of most European nations that coordinates monetary, trade, immigration, and labor policies, making its members one economic unit.

Question 8

Foreign Policy Policymakers

Answer 8

president, diplomats, national security establishment, congress

Question 9

president

Answer 9

negotiates treaties, makes executive agreements, is commander-in-chief, and receives ambassadors

Question 10

sec state

Answer 10

Secretary of State: the head of the Department of State and traditionally a key adviser to the president on Foreign Policy

Question 11

Secretary of Defense

Answer 11

: the head of the Department of Defense and the President’s key advisor on military policy; a key foreign policy actor

Question 12

Department of Defense

Answer 12

(the Pentagon): US Army, Navy, Air Force

Question 13

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Answer 13

: the commanding officers of the armed services who advise the president on military policy

Question 14

National Security Council

Answer 14

l: formed by congress; composed of President, VP, Sec. State, Sec. Defense

Question 15

Central Intelligence Agency

Answer 15

: An agency created after WWII to coordinate American intelligence abroad; has also become involved in intrigue, conspiracy, and meddling

Question 16

congress

Answer 16

constitutional authority to declare war, ratify treaties, and confirm cabinet members (e.g Sec. State)

Question 17

Isolationism

Answer 17

: a foreign policy course followed throughout most of our nation’s history whereby the United States tried to stay out of other nations’ conflicts; reaffirmed by Monroe Doctrine.

Question 18

Containment doctrine:

Answer 18

isolate the USSR, control its advances, resist encroachment (contain communism)

Question 19

Arms race:

Answer 19

one side’s weaponry became the other side’s goad to procure more

Question 20

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty:

Answer 20

limited growth of nuclear capabilities

Question 21

Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”):

Answer 21

global umbrella in space

Question 22

Imperial overstretch:

Answer 22

great empires that are in economic decline tend to cling to their vast military commitments

Question 23

Peace dividend:

Answer 23

reductions in defense spending in the 1990s

Question 24

“Soft power” =

Answer 24

the ability to persuade

Question 25

tariff

Answer 25

Tariff: special tax added to the cost of imported goods to protect businesses from competition