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This is the system in which the world is divided into many
power centers.
What is Multipolar?
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The ability of one country to influence another.
What is power?
3, 100
According to the War PowersAct, the President can use troops
for this long in a foreign war without congressional approval.
What is 90 days?
4, 100
The belief that God wanted Americans to conquer land
all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific is known
as this.
What is Manifest Destiny?
1, 200
The system in which weaker countries join to oppose a
domineering power.
What is Counterweight?
2, 200
The idea that a nation controls everything within its borders.
What is sovereignty?
3, 200
Foreign policy is often determined by this, which can
be defined as our goals as a nation.
What is national interest?
4, 200
One result of America’s desire toexpand westward was this.
What is either the Louisiana Purchase, the purchase of Florida from Spain, the Mexican-American War, or the
War of 1812?
1, 300
This system asserts that thereare 3 levels of countries, the
bottom one being a “zoneof chaos” run by warlords
and crime.
What is stratified?
2, 300
Power above the national level, for example the UN.
What is supranational?
3, 300
This is the small group that coordinates and advises the president on foreign policy.
What is the National Security Council?
4, 300
In this war, the United States won the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and control of
Cuba.
What is the Spanish-American War?
1, 400
This system states that countries become more
peaceful as they begin to tradefreely with others.
What is Globalized?
2, 400
Unwillingness to use military forces overseas, because youbelieve that U.S. involvementwould only make the conflict
worse.
What is nonintervention?
3, 400
This refers to a foreign policy based on morality.
What is idealism?
4, 400
This term means to conquer landoverseas, which was our nationalinterest at the turn of the 20th
century.
What is Imperialism?
1, 500
This system states that the post-Cold War world is divided into
several racial and religiousgroups. It states that the biggest threat today is the
Islamic civilization.
What is Clash of Civilizations?
2, 500
A foreign policy that does not consult or include any allied
nation. For example, President Bush’s handling of North Korea.
What is unilateralism?
3, 500
This was the plan to rebuildEurope economically after WWII
in order to keep our allies, win over Germany, and stop the
spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
4, 500
The Truman Doctrine was partof this policy to stop the spread
of communism.
What is Containment?