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- "Iron Curtain"
- Winstion Churchills Speech he used this phrase to describe Europe being divided by the east which were communists and the west that were free
- RIO Pact
- Involves the US and 37 Lation American Countries, if anyone gets attacked than one of the other countries come to help=Reciprocal Assistance
- Philippines Pact
- We will protect them if we could have military bases. but this is no longer in effect
- Diplomatic Immunity
- Cannot be arrested taxed or sued in host country
- ANZUS Pact
- agreed if anyone in Australia, New Zealand or the US gets attacked the other two will help, but this is no longer in effect b/c NZ became angry with us
- USIA
- United States Information Agency
- Secretary of State
- Condolieezza Rice
- USACDA
- United States Arms Control Disarment Agency
- Louisiana Purchase
- Doubled the size of US
- Vietnimaztion
- Nixon's plan for getting US out of Vietnam, graduall withdrawing soldiers month by month
- ICBM
- Inter-Continnental Balistic Missile
- Korean Pact
- US told Koreans if they get attacked we will help them but US wants to have Military Presence
- Foreign Policy
- Deals with everything our country says or does in regards to another country
- Secretary of Defense
- Robert Gates
- Charge'd'affairs
- Runis the embassie if the amabassador leaves
- Policy of Detterence
- We decided to make ourselves so militarily strong that no other country would try to attack us
- Japanese Pact
- US will protect them if we could have military bases in Japan
- Chairman Joint Chief of Staff is..
- Mike Mullen
- Joint Chiefs of Staff do what?
- They advise president of military matters
- Secretary General of the United Nations
- Ben-Ki-Moon
- Director of CIA
- Michael Hayden
- CIA
- Central Intelligence Agency
- NASA
- National Aeronatics Space Administration
- Hawaiian Islands
- were annexed into the US
- why did we begin under isolationaism
- B/c we were young and militarily weak
- Alaska
- was purchased from Russia
- NATO
- Purpose was to protect western European countries from a possible soviet union invasion
- Air Force
- The youngest military department and countries first line of defense
- IBM
- Intermediate Balistic Missile