Chapter 15 Final Exam Study

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in

1949.

The final collapse of the Soviet Union occurred in

1991.

The military services in America ultimately remain under civilian control and are housed in which part of the executive branch?

Department of Defense

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly

allocates one vote to each member country, regardless of population size.

In 2014, Russia challenged the United States and its European allies by

amassing troops along several portions of the Ukrainian border.

If the United States and Canada refer a dispute to the World Trade Organization to settle for them, this is an example of

arbitration.

Economic aid is an economic ________; sanctions are an economic ________.

carrot; stick

The representation of a government to other foreign governments is called

diplomacy.

Which of the following is the most important actor in the conduct of American foreign policy?

the president

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is a(n)

trade treaty between Mexico, Canada, and the United States designed to lower and eliminate tariffs.

What is the role of the State Department in American foreign policy?

It carries out routine diplomatic activities.

The nineteenth-century policy of ________ was based on the geographic distance of the United States from other countries.

isolationism

During the 1990s, the importance of the International Monetary Fund increased due to

its efforts to bring former communist countries into the global capitalist economy.

In foreign policy, the Bush Doctrine refers to

preemptive war against threats to national security.

The policy of striking a nation that might be contemplating hostile actions is called

preventive war.

One power that the Senate has, that the House does not, is the power of

reviewing and approving treaties.

The two primary goals of American foreign policy are

security and prosperity.

American foreign aid

sometimes has a humanitarian purpose, but more often is used to promote security interest or economic concerns.

American diplomacy with North Korea has often been difficult because North Korea's major backer and trading partner, ________, will not cooperate with any effort by the United States to undermine the North Korean regime.

China

When two sides of an international conflict possess such enormous arsenals of nuclear missiles that each has the ability to destroy the other in the event of war, it is called

"mutually assured destruction."