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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 of __________ in the United States. |
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| Created in 1945, an organization whose members agree to renounce war and to respect certain human and economic freedoms. The seat of real power in the ________ is the Security Council |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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| Created in 1949, an organization whose members include the United States, Canada, most Western European nations, and Turkey, all of whom agree to combine military forces and to treat a war against one as a war against all. |
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| An alliance of the major Western European nations which coordinates monetary, trade, immigration, and labor policies, making its members one economic unit. An example of regional organization. |
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| The head of the Department of State and traditionally a key advisor to the president on foreign policy. |
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| The head of the Department of Defense and the president’s key advisor on military policy; a key foreign policy actor |
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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 (CIA) |
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| An agency created after World War II to coordinate American intelligence activities abroad. It became involved in intrigue, conspiracy, and meddling as well |
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| A foreign policy course followed throughout most of our nation’s history, whereby the United States has tried to stay out of other nations’ conflicts, particularly European wars. ____________ was reaffirmed by the Monroe Doctrine |
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| A foreign policy strategy advocated by George Kennan that called for the United States to isolate the Soviet Union, “contain” its advances, and resist its encroachments by peaceful means if possible, but by force if necessary. |
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| War by other than military means usually emphasizing ideological conflict, such as that between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of World War II until the 1990s. |
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| The fear, prevalent in the 1950s, that international Communism was conspiratorial, insidious, bent on world domination, and infiltrating American government and cultural institutions. It was named after Senator Joseph McCarthy and flourished after the Korean War. |
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| A tense relationship beginning in the 1950s 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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| A slow transformation from conflict thinking to cooperative thinking 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 (SDI) |
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| Renamed “Star Wars” by critics, a plan for defense against the Soviet Union unveiled by President Reagan in 1983. ______ 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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| Mutual dependency, in which the actions of nations reverberate and affect one another’s economic lifelines. |
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| A special tax added to imported goods to raise the prices, thereby protecting American business and workers from foreign competition. |
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| The ration of what is paid for imports to what is earned from exports. When more is imported than exported, there is a balance-of-trade deficit. |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
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| 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. |
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