| A | B |
|---|
| Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 | treaty wherein America and Soviet Union agreed to limit antiballistic missile sites and interceptor missiles |
| Brinkmanship | going close to the edge of all out war in order to contain communism |
| Cold War | an era where American foreign policy was defined as containment of communism |
| Collective Security | if one nation is attacked, other nations will come to its defense |
| Containment | US foreign policy predicated on stopping the spread of communism |
| Detente | foreign policy started by Nixon, supported by Reagan, that resulted in improved relations with the Soviet Union |
| Domino Theory | suggestion that if one country fell to communism, others would fall like dominoes |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | readiness to use armed forces to aid Middle Eastern countries threatened by communist aggression |
| Favorable balance of trade | when a country exports more than it imports |
| General agreement on Taiffs and Trade (GATT) | agreement wherein new trade barriers should be avoided by member nations, existing tariffs shoudl be eliminated, and protective tariffs shoudl be used only for emergency situations |
| Global interdependence | the degree of linkage among the community of nations |
| Good Neighbor policy | FDR policy, aimed at improving relations with Latin America |
| Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty | agreement that called for the destruction of many intermediate range nuclear missiles |
| Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987 | agreement that provided for the dismantling of all Soviet and American medium and short-range missiles and established a site inspection procedure |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | clearing house for member nations to discuss monetary issues and develop int'l plans and policies to deal with monetary issues |
| Isolationism | US foreign policy between WWI and WWII |
| Manifest Destiny | policy based on the belief that it was God's will for the US to expand its borders to the Pacific |
| New World Order | President Bush's vision for world peace; US takes the lead to ensure that agression is dealt with by a mutual agreement of the UN, NATO, and other countries acting in concert |
| North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | agreement that called for dramatic reductions of tariffs among the US, Canada, and Mexico |
| Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 | banned atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons |
| Partnership for Peace | Clinton's proposal that recognizes former Warsaw Pact nations, and brought Russia into NATO |
| Return to normalcy | A Harding campaign theme; the US shoudl turn inward after WWI |
| Strategic Arms Limitation Talk (SALT) Treaty | Nixon in 1972; first arms reduction since nuclear age began |
| Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty of 1972 | aka SALT II; this treaty never passed the Senate (Russia invades Afghanistan); By 1986 many of the reductions were carried out by both sides |
| Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty (START) of 1991 | US-Russia treaty; agreed to major reductions in their nuclear arsenals |
| Truman Doctrine | policy that supported people in Greece and Turkey in resisting communism after WWII |
