Flashcards: United States foreign policy

Major non-NATO ally (MNNA) is a designation given by the United States government to close allies who have strategic working relationships with U.

The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.

Truman told Congress that "it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly known as the US Army School of the Americas (SOA), is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel in US-allied Latin American nations.

Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (also known as KAL007 and KE007) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) (in Persian: برنامه جامع اقدام مشترک‎‎, acronym: برجام BARJAM), known commonly as the Iran deal or Iran nuclear deal, is an international agreement on the nuclear program of Iran reached in Vienna on 14 July 2015 between Iran, the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States—plus Germany), and the European Union.

The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the United States Senate.

The Monroe Doctrine was a U.

This is a timeline of United States government military operations.

The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.

The Jamestown Foundation is a Washington, D.

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles).

The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value as of June 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.

Foreign Policy is an American news publication, founded in 1970 and focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States Government agency which is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid.

Russia–United States relations is the bilateral relationship between the United States and the Russian Federation, the successor state to the Soviet Union.

The Next 100 Years is a 2009 book by George Friedman.

The Next Decade is a 2010 book by George Friedman, who addresses the United States' relationships with other countries and the state of the world in general throughout the 2010s.

Containment is a military strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), founded in 1921, is a United States 4900-member organization, nonprofit, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.

Global Minnesota – formerly the Minnesota International Centre – is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization that connects individuals, organizations, and communities to the world.

United States foreign policy in the Middle East has its roots as early as the Barbary Wars in the first years of the U.

The foreign policy of the John F.

(See also: Foreign policy of the United States) During his campaign for election as President of the United States, George W.

The foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration was the foreign policy of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War is a nonfiction book written by Robert M.

Criticism of United States foreign policy encompasses a wide range of opinions and views on failures and shortcoming of United States policies and actions.