Unit Five Foreign Policy and National Security Vocabulary

The government agencies that gather information about the capabilities and intentions of foreign governments or that engage in covert actions.

• Negative Constituents

• Intelligence Community

• Diplomacy

• National Security

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world.

• Foreign Policy

• Moral Idealism

• Containment

• Diplomacy

A government's strategy in dealing with other nations.

• Foreign Policy

• Defense Policy

• Monroe Doctrine

• Intelligence Community

A subset of national security policies having to do with the U.S. armed forces.

• Defense Policy

• National Security

• Foreign Policy

• Monroe Doctrine

U.S. citizens who openly oppose the government's policies.

• National Security

• Diplomacy

• Moral Idealism

• Negative Constituents

Protection of a nation's borders and territories against invasion or control by foreign powers.

• Foreign Policy

• Defense Policy

• National Security

• Detente

A personal moral philosophy that considers certain individual rights or duties as universal, regardless of the outcome.

• Diplomacy

• Moral Idealism

• Negative Constituents

• Intelligence Community

The easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.

• Detente

• Diplomacy

• National Security

• Foreign Policy

A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.

• Monroe Doctrine

• Foreign Policy

• National Security

• Diplomacy

The practice of conducting negotiations between countries.

• Foreign Policy

• National Security

• Intelligence Community

• Diplomacy