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Ch. 20 - Foreign Policy - Key Terms

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A policy perceived to confer wide benefits, and impose wide costsmajoritarian foreign policy
A policy perceived to confer benefits on one group and costs on anotherinterest group foreign policy
A policy perceived to benefit distinct groups but not to costs othersclient foreign policy
A stoppage by the USSR of allied access to Germany's capitalBerlin blockade
The situation that followed the USSR's installation of hostile missiles in the CaribbeanCuban missile crisis
A cabinent-level body charged with the execution of foreign policyState Department
The agency charged with collecting sensitive foreign informationCIA
The committee appointed by statute that advises the president on foreign policyNSC
International agreements submitted to the Senate for approvaltreaties
International agreements not submitted to the Senate for approvalexecutive agreements
Schlesinger's depiction of presidential power under Nixonimperial presidency
A proviso allowing Congress to overrule the president's actionslegislative veto
Legislation passed in 1973 that attempted to limit the president's power to make warWar Powers Act
A ship whose detained crew was rescued by troops acting on orders from President FordMayaguez
A Supreme Court case voiding the legislative veto in the War Powers ActChadha
The constitutional role played by the president in time of warcommander in chief
A private but pwerful foreign policy think tank funded by the RockerfellersCouncil on Foreign Relations`
A relatively consistent picture of the world problems facing the United Statesworldview
The U.S. strategy that has dominated its post-World War II policy on the USSRcontainment
Where Neville Chamberlain sought peace through appeasementMunich
The site of the Japanese attack on U.S. naval forces in 1941Pearl Harbor
Churchill's view of the barrier separating the Western powers from the USSR-dominated countries after World War IIiron curtain
A business operating in more than one countrymultinational corporation
The worldview that emerged as a result of Worl War II and in particular as a reaction to the Munich conferenceantiappeasement
The worldview that emerged in the aftermath of the Vietnam War suggesting that the United States ought to limit foreign interventiondisengagement view
The nonmilitary struggle between the United States (and its allies) and the former Soviet Union (and its allies) following World War IIcold war
The theory that if one nation fell into communist hands, neighboring nations would followdomino theory
The view that the United States should withdraw from world affairs, limit foreign aid, and avoid involvement in foreign warsisolationism
The group of developing nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastThird World


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