A | B |
foreign policy | all the stands and actions the U.S. takes with other nations |
isolationism | refusal to become generally involved in rest of world |
Secretary of State | president's key advisor in foreign policy |
ambassador | official representative of U.S. in another nation |
passport | legal document allowing privilege of foreign travel |
visa | permission granted by another government to allow travel |
diplomatic immunity | ambassadors are not subject to laws of host country |
Secretary of Defense | President's key advisor for military matters |
CIA | agency responsible for gathering information of other nations |
espionage | spying |
terrorism | use of violence to intimidate a government or society |
NASA | organized to coordinate space exploration |
draft | selective service |
collective security | defensive alliance system; attack on one nation is an attack on all |
deterrence | maintaining military might to discourage an attack |
cold war | ideological confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union |
containment | the policy of preventing communism from spreading |
detente | easing of tensions during the Cold War |
foreign aid | economic, political or military assistance to another nation |
NATO | collective security agreement to contain communism in Europe |
sanction | political, economic or military punishment against another nation |
United Nations | world organization for member nations to prevent another world war |
General Assembly | part of U.N. that is the "town meeting of the world" |
U.N. Security Council | responsible for international sanctions |