| A | B |
|---|
| alliance | one or more partners |
| ally | partner |
| ambassador | an accredited diplomat sent by a country as its official representative to a foreign country |
| diplomacy | the art of dealing with people in a sensitive and effective way |
| diplomat | an official representing a country abroad |
| domestic policy | administrative decisions that are directly related to all issues and activity within a nation's borders |
| foreign policy | the ways a government advances its interests in world politics |
| Secretary of State | the head of the State Department, responsible for foreign affairs |
| European Union | a union of 28 member countries which share political and economic relations |
| international organization | an organization with an international membership, scope, or presence |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico designed to remove trade barriers between the three countries |
| United Nations | an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries |
| UNICEF | United Nations Children's Fund |
| World Bank | international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world |
| World Court | the principal judicial organ of the United Nations |
| World Trade Organization | the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations |
| World Health Organization | a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health |
| Bay of Pigs | failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in 1961 |
| conflict | a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one |
| Gulf War I | A war between the forces of the United Nations, led by the United States, and those of Iraq that followed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein 's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 |
| Gulf War II | A protracted military conflict in Iraq that began in 2003 with an attack by a coalition of forces led by the United States and that resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime |
| Iran Hostage Crisis | a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages |
| Korean War | fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and communist North Korea |
| military action | coordinated military response to a situation |
| peacekeeping | the active maintenance of a truce between nations or communities, especially by an international military force |
| sanctions | a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule |
| terrorism | the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims |
| treaty | a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries |
| Vietnam War | was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954 |
| World War I | A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (which entered in 1915), and the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire |
| World War II | war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan — and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States |
