People and Places... | United Nations | Foreign! International! Worldly! | Actors in foreign policy...stars, celebs, A-listers | War |
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Who is Condoleezza Rice?
Replaced Colin Powell in Bush's second term
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What is United Nations?
This is housed in a magnificent skyscraper in NY
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What is World Trade Organization?
Attempts to regulate international trade
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What is department of defense?
This department is a key actor in foreign policy
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What is the UN?
DI\id not support the US-led Iraq war
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What is Baghdad?
The US launched an attack on this city in retaliation for an assignation threat to former president Bush
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What is 1945?
When was the United Nations created
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What is Universal Postal Union?
Delivers mail from one country to another
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What is the CIA?
What agency was created after WW II to coordinate American intelligence activity
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What is military policy?
The Joint Chief of Staff advise the president on this
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Who is Secretary of State?
Main civilian advisor on national defense matters
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What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Signed April 4 1949, this organization constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
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What is the World Bank?
Finances development projects in new nations
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What is Diplomacy?
This is called the quietest instrument of influence
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What is declare war
Congress has sole authority to raise ____ and raise and organize the armed forces
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What is the President, Vice-President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense?
Who is the national security defense made up of
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What is general assembly?
This assembly is composed of 191 members, with each receiving one vote
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What is the International Monetary Fund?
Regulates international finance
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What is Oil,Trade Regulation, Tariff, and Monetary Policies?
Name 2 types of economic instruments of Foreign Policy
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What is Treaties?
Of the two formal mechanisms; Treaties and Executive Agreements, this one must be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate
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Who is Bill Clinton?
He envisioned an expanded role for UN peacekeeping operations at the beginning of his term as president, but later concluded that UN is not capable of making and keeping peace
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What is the Security Council?
The U.S., Great Britain, China, France, and Russia are five permanent members and real power in the UN
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What is Caribbean and Central America?
The United States enforced most of its military influence in these two regions
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What is Oil?
What is the most important economic instrument of foreign policy
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What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
A secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran
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