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| World Trade Organization (WTO) |
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| Supreme governing body designed to facilitate global trade & settle international trade disputes. |
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
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| Encourages cooperation among national monetary system & promotes international trade. |
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| political and economic community of twenty-seven member states, located primarily in Europe. With almost 500 million citizens, the EU combined generates an estimated 30% share of the world's nominal gross domestic product (US$16.6 trillion) in 2007.[2] |
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| Alliance formed to promote the collective defense of Western Europe against threat of Soviet aggression. |
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| Group of countries that come together to promote peace |
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| Bears the UN's major responsibility for keeping international trade. *US, Great Britain, China, France, & Russia. |
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| National policy of treating the world as a proper spere for political influence. |
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| Policy of making US & allies military strong in order to prevent threats |
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| Term Bush used for the accused helping of terrorism and the seeking of weapons of mass destruction. |
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| Having two or more parties |
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| Formal decree, consideration, principle, that impels to moral action. |
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| Legal prohibition on commerce, prohibits trade to specific ports |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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| Sponsored more than 80 treaties that help protect specific human rights. |
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| The Government's many administrators and agencies |
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Aid the chief executive and other administrators by offering advice and other assistance in the management of the organization. |
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Perform the tasks for which the organization exists. |
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The head of the Department of Justice |
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| In charge of foreign affairs |
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| The practice of giving offices & other favors of Gov't to political supporters and friends. |
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| The Executive of the President |
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The bureaucracies that fall right under the President. -National Security Council -Office of Management & Budget
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| The Executive Departments |
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| aka the Cabinet Departments and they can make their own choices, even though the leader is chosen by the president. Led by a secretary. |
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| These agencies are located outside the executive departments. |
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| Promotes containment policy. Promised that if communism were to spread, then we'd be there. |
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| After WWII, the US invests money to rebuild Europe, so they wouldn't fall to communism from Russia. Children of bombed areas could look up to the US and become loyal. |
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| imposed an embargo on arms trading with the countries at war. It also declared that American citizens traveling on warring ships traveled at their own risk |
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| required that all remaining trade be conducted on a cash-and-carry basis |
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| Scandal where the US (CIA) would sell weapons to Iran, who would get money from the Contras (Nicaragua). |
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| unilateral political act, with domestic and international legal consequences |
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| The option of investing in either defense or civilian goods. |
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| The keeping of international peace and order. |
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The amounts owed by employees withheld from their paychecks. |
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| Previous holder in office |
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| How is the number of electors that a state is entitled determined? |
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| The total number of electors for each stae is determined by the state's total number of senators and representatives. |
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