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| 6720728481 | Truman Doctrine | policy that supported people in Greece and Turkey in resisting communism after WWII | 0 | |
| 6720735763 | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) 1991 | treaty between the US and Russia that agreed to major reductions in their nuclear arsenals | 1 | |
| 6720740873 | Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty of 1972 | known as SALT II, the treaty never passed the Senate as a rest of Russia's invasion of Afghanistan. However, in 1986 many of the reducations were carried out by both sides | 2 | |
| 6720764978 | Strategic Arms Limitation Talk (SALT) Treaty | agreement signed by President Nixon in 1972 that resulted in the first arms reductions since the nuclear age began | 3 | |
| 6720778132 | Return to normalcy | a campaign theme of Warren Harding referring to a belief that the US should turn inward after WWI | 4 | |
| 6720788654 | partnership for peace | Pres. Clinton announced in 1993 a policy that allowed for the gradual recognition of new member nations from the former Warsaw pact and gave the designaton of associate status in NATO to Russia | 5 | |
| 6720802837 | Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 | agreement that banned atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. | 6 | |
| 6720807892 | North american free trade agreement (NAFTA) | agreement that called for dramatic reductions of tariffs among the US, Canada, and Mexico | 7 | |
| 6720818227 | New world order | Pres. Bush's vision for world peace centering around the US taking the lead to ensure that aggression be dealt with by a mutual aggrement of the UN, NATO, and other countires acting in aggrement | 8 | |
| 6720886954 | Manifest Destny | policy pursued in the early to late 1800s that was based upon the belief that it was God's will for the US to expand its orders to the Pacific | 9 | |
| 6720921104 | Isolationism | US foreign policy between WWI and WWII, which resulted in the US staying out of European affairs. rejection of the league of nations and Treaty of Versailles are exmaples of isoloationist policy | 10 | |
| 6720956987 | International Monetary fund (IMF) | a clearing house for member nations to discuss monetary issues and develop international plans and policies to deal with monetary issues regulating monetary exchange rates is its prmary task | 11 | |
| 6721005217 | intermediate range nuclear forces treaty of 1987 | aggrement that provided for the dismantling of all soviet and the American medium - and short range missles and established a site inspection procedure | 12 | |
| 6721011994 | intermediate nuclear force ( INF) treaty | aggrement that called for detruction of a large part of the most dangerous nuclear warheads, the intermediate range missiles | 13 | |
| 6721063148 | good neighbor policy | a foreign policy established by franklin roosevelt that aimed at improving relation with latin america | 14 | |
| 6721075321 | Global interdependence | degree of likage among the community of nations | 15 | |
| 6721079139 | General aggreement on tariffs and trade (GATT) | aggrement wherein new trade barriers should be avoided by memeber nations, existing tariffs, should be eliminated, and prtective tariffs should be used only for emergency situations | 16 | |
| 6721098449 | favorable balance of trade | refers to a country exporting more than they import. The US has had an unfavorable balance of trade since WWII | 17 | |
| 6721109187 | Eisenhower doctrine | doctrine that stated readiness to use armed forces to aid middle eastern countries threatened by communist aggression | 18 | |
| 6721113025 | domino theory | suggestion that if one country fell tocommunism, others would fall like dominoes | 19 | |
| 6721117475 | detente | a foreign policy started by richard nixon and supported by ronald reagan that resulted in an improvement of relations with the soviet union during cold war | 20 | |
| 6721132700 | containment | official foreign policy of the US between 1945 and 1991 that was predicated on stopping the spread of communism | 21 | |
| 6721140215 | collective security | aggrement to form through treaties mutual defense arrangements, such as NATO which guarantee that if one nation is attacked, other nations will come to its defense | 22 | |
| 6721161704 | cold war | era of american foreign policy lasting from the end of world war II (1945) to the colapse of the soviet union (1991) where american policy was defined as containment of communsim | 23 | |
| 6721169264 | brinkmanship | going close tthe edge of an all out war in order to contain communism | 24 | |
| 6721173795 | antiballistic missile treaty of 1972 | treaty wherein america and the soviet union agreed to limit antiballistic missile sites and iterceptor missiles | 25 | |
| 6721179393 | superfund | Legislation that mandated the cleanup of abandoned toxic waste dumps and authorized premarket btesting of chemical substances. It allowed the EPA To ban or regulate the manufacture, sale, or use of ant chemicals that could present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or environment and outlaws certain chemicals such as PCB's | 26 | |
| 6721225922 | Renewable resources | Those natural resources such as solar energy that can be used over again | 27 | |
| 6721234007 | Nuclear regulatory commission | Created as part of the energy reorganization act of 1974 it was given jurisdiction to license and regulate commercial use of nuclear technologies and monitor wstorage and transportation of materials arising from its use | 28 |
