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| Created 1945, an organization whose members agree to renounce war and to respect certain human and economic freedoms. The Security Council was the seat power. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organizations |
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| Created in 1949, an organization whose members include the United States, Canada, most of European nations and Turkey all of whom agreed to combine military forces and to treat a war against one a war against all. |
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| An alliance of the major Wester European nations which coordinates monetary, trade, immigration, and labor policies, making it's members one economic unit. |
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| The head of a Department; a key advisor to the president on foreign policy. Thomas Jefferson was the first. |
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| A policy that involves choice-taking, like domestic policy, but additionally involves choices about relations with the rest of the world. The President is the Chief Initiator in this policy in the US. |
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| A head of Department; the president's key advisor on military policy. |
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| The commanding officers of the armed services who advise the president on military policy. |
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| Central Intelligence Agency |
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| Created after World war II to coordinate American activities abroad. It became involved in intrigue, conspiracy and meddling as well. |
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| A foreign policy course followed most of our nation's history, whereby the United states has tried to stay out of other nation's conflicts, particularly Europeans wars. |
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| A foreign policy strategy by George Kennan that called for the United States to isolate the Soviet Union, to "contain" its advance, and resist its encroachments by peaceful means if possible, but by force of necessary. |
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| Conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of World WAr II until the 1990's. |
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| The fear, prevalent in the 1950's that international Communism was conspiratorial, insidious, bent on world domination, and infiltrating American government and cultural institutions. |
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| A slow transformation from conflict thinking to cooperative thinking in foreign policy strategy and policymaking. It sought a relaxation of tensions between the superpowers, coupled with firm guarantees of mutual security. |
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| Strategic Defense Initiative |
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| Renamed "Star Wars" by critics a plan for defense against the Soviet Union unveiled by President Reagan in 1983. It would create a global umbrella in space, using computers to scan the skies and high tech devices to destroy invading missiles. |
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| A tense relationship beginning in the 1950's between the Soviet Union and the United States whereby one side's weaponry became the other side's goad to procure more weaponry and so on. |
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| In which the actions of nations reverberate and affect one another's economic lifelines. |
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| A special tax added to import goods to raise the price, there by protecting American businesses and workers from foreign competitions. |
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| The ratio of what is paid for imports to what is earned from exports. When more is imported than exported. |
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| Organizations of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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| An economic organizations, consisting primarily of Arab nations, that controls the price of oil and the amount of oil its members produce and sell to other nations. |
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