Chapter 20 AP Government Flashcards

6142309873	Chadha Decision	one house can not veto an attorney general's decision	0
6142321278	Winston Churchhill	gave the Iron Curtain speech	1
6142326702	Commander-in-Chief	presidential role in military action	2
6142349783	Name the constitutional powers of the commander in chief	send troops, appoint ambassadors, negotiate treaties, Executive agreements	3
6142358158	Acronym for presidential commander in chief powers	SANE	4
6142363133	The president is commander-in-chief of troops, but congress...	authorizes and funds troops	5
6142369255	The president can send troops, but congress...	declares war	6
6142374401	The president can appoint ambassadors, but congress...	confirms appointments	7
6142382643	The president can negotiate treaties, but congress...	Ratifies treaties	8
6142386301	The president can make executive agreements, but	Case Act says Secretary of State has to tell Congress the text of any agreement within 60 days, but congress can not change such agreements	9
6142409422	Congress can use _________ to disapprove an executive decision	legislative veto	10
6142409423	Executive Agreement	highly sensitive arrangements with foreign nations that are made without congressional approval	11
6142417993	Containment	U.S. should contain aggressive nations	12
6142425283	When did the U.S. employ containment?	during the Cold War and WWII	13
6142428181	Cuban Missile Crisis	Missile silos in cuba pointed at U.S. from Soviets	14
6142437969	Détente	period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union	15
6142446627	Disengagement	after the failure in Vietnam, similar engagements with foreign nations should be avoided	16
6142457089	Domino Theory	If one nation turns communist, those around it will follow the same pattern	17
6142461834	Enlargement	U.S. should support enlarging the sphere of market-oriented democracies	18
6142499555	"Guns and Butter" Debate	relationship between a nation's investment in defense and civilian goods	19
6142509446	Iron Curtain	metaphorical barrier separating communist Soviet bloc and Western Europe	20
6142517313	Isolationism	paradigm to withdraw from and avoid foreign affairs	21
6142527150	Korematsu v. United States	case concerning the constitutionality of the Executive Order which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II	22
6142533035	Legislative Veto	allows a congressional resolution to nullify an action taken by the president	23
6142542713	Manifest Destiny	belief that the United States was destined to span from coast to coast	24
6142548014	Monroe Doctrine	a message from president Monroe prompting isolationism from Europe	25
6142565466	NATO	Partnership for peace for increased military cooperation between Unites States and Europe	26
6142808150	National Security Council	responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising president on matters related to national security	27
6142835690	Paradigm/World View	mental pictures of the critical problems facing the United States and methods of responding	28
6142849336	Pearl Harbor	initiated full U.S. involvement in WWII	29
6142864193	Rally 'round the flag effect	short term popularity a president received during a war	30
6142870159	State Department	advises the president and leads him in foreign affairs	31
6142873768	Treaties	must be approved by congress and last for as long as notes	32
6142879287	Do executive agreements transfer from president to president?	No	33
6142879288	Truman Doctrine	Truman's pledge to contain Soviet threats	34
6142890760	Unilateralism	belief that the US is better off separate from Europe	35
6142985403	War Powers Act	restricts president's ability to use military force	36
6142990876	Chain of Command order	President, Secretary of Defense, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Commanders	37
6142996314	Desert Storm	war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq	38
6143004773	House Armed Services committee	committee in the house responsible for funding and oversight of the Department of Defense	39
6143014693	Joint Chiefs of Staff	the Chairman, the Vice Chairman, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau	40
6143018336	Joint Chiefs of Staff job	planners and advisers, not as commanders of combatant commands	41
6143025592	National Security Act	changed nature of the Joint Chiefs of Staff jobs, merged the Department of Army and the Department of the Navy into the one	42
6143039229	How long does the president have to tell congress that he sent troops?	48 hours	43
6143046050	Peace dividend	sum of public money that becomes available for other purposes when spending on defense is reduced	44
6143050156	Strategic Defense Initiative	Star wars, to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union.	45
6143069664	What is the congressional oversight on the armed services, intelligence, and foreign affairs?		46