Foreign Policy
Making Foreign Policy
What is foreign policy?
What are the goals our country tries to achieve with foreign policy?
Foreign Policy Bureaucracy
The Executive Branch includes a large foreign policy bureaucracy
What does it include?
Congress v. The President
Who shares the power to conduct foreign affairs?
The president is the ____________________________ and ____________________________________, What foreign
policy powers does Congress have?
Does the Constitution make it clear how the executive and legislative branches can use their powers of foreign policy?
What happens because of this?
Tools of Foreign Policy
Treaties and Executive Agreements
What is a treaty?
Why were the treaties, NATO and NAFTA made?
The Senate must approve a treaty by a _______________
Can the President make an executive agreement with the leader of another country without Senate approval?
Can they make any kind of agreements?
Appointing Ambassadors
What is an ambassador?
Who appoints ambassadors?
Who approves the appointments?
Are Ambassadors sent to all countries?
Where are U.S. ambassadors not sent?
Foreign Aid
What forms of foreign aid does the U.S. use to help other countries?
What is the Marshall Plan (1947-1951)? How much did it cost?
International Trade
The ___________________________ makes agreements with other nations about what products may be traded and the
rules of trade.
What are trade sanctions?
What is an embargo?
_____________________ takes the lead in imposing ___________________ on imported goods and in joining
____________________________________________
Name an international trade group?
Military Force
As ____________________________________________, presidents may use the military to
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It must be used with care
Examples?