Chapter 20

Question 1

Secretary of State

Answer 1

the head of the department of state and traditionally a key advisory to the president on foreign policy

Question 2

Secretary of defense

Answer 2

The head of the department of defense and the presidents key adviser on military policy, a key foreign policy actor

Question 3

Balance of trade

Answer 3

the ration of what is paid for imports to what is earned from exports.

Question 4

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Answer 4

AN economic organization consisting primarily of Arab nations that controls the prices of oil and the amount of oil its members produce and sell to other nations

Question 5

Tariff

Answer 5

a tax added to imported goods to raise the price, thereby protecting businesses and workers from foreign competition

Question 6

Interdependency

Answer 6

Mutual dependency in which the actions of nations reverberate and affect one anothers economic lifelines

Question 7

Strategic Defense Initiative

Answer 7

Renamed “star wars”
a plan for defense against the soviet union unveiled by Pres. Reagen in 1983. Would create and umbrella in space, using computers to scan the skies and high tech devices to destroy invading missles

Question 8

Detente

Answer 8

A slow transformation from conflict thinking to cooperate thinking in foreign policy strategy and policy making. it sought a relaxation of tensions between the super powers, coupled with firm guarantees of mutual security

Question 9

Arms Race

Answer 9

A tense relationship beginning in the 1950s between the soviet union and the U. S. whereby one sides weaponry become the other sides goal to produce more weaponry and so on

Question 10

Cold War

Answer 10

War by other than military means usually empazing ideological conflict, such as that between the U.S. and that Soviet Union from the end of World War 2 until the 1990s

Question 11

Containment Doctrine

Answer 11

A foreign policy strategy advocated by George Kennan that called for the US to isolate the soviet union “contain” its advances, and resist its encroachments by peaceful means if possible but by force if necessary.

Question 12

Isolationism

Answer 12

A Foreign policy course followed throughout most of our nations history whereby the US tried to stay out of other nations conflicts, particularly European Wars

Question 13

Central Intelligence Agency

Answer 13

An agency created after World War 2 to coordinate American Intelligence activities abroad. it became involved in intrigue, conspiracy, and meddling as well

Question 14

Joint Chiefs of staff

Answer 14

The commanding officers of the armed services who advise the President on military policy

Question 15

European union

Answer 15

A transnational government composed of most European nations that coordinates monetary trade, immigration, and labor prices, making its members one economic unit

Question 16

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Answer 16

Created in 1949, an organization whose members include the US, 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 17

United Nations

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Foreign policy

Answer 18

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