Comparative Governments and Foreign Policy Review

Which department of the cabinet is in charge of representing the US internationally and foreign relations?

• Department of Justice

• Department of Homeland Security

• Department of State

What is the main goal of US foreign policy?

• national security

• international trade

• making treaties

Why should military force be the last tool used for foreign policy?

• it's expensive

• risks American lives and lives of others

• can lead to war

• all of the above

Which of these is a tool of foreign policy?

• national security

• taxes

• ambassadors

What is a trade sanction?

• way of punishing another country by imposing trade barriers

• way of providing aid to other countries

True or false: a goal of US foreign policy is to promote democracy everywhere.

• false

• true

The president can make treaties, but who has to approve them?

• the Executive Office

• the Cabinet

• Congress

What country is our largest trading partner?

• Japan

• UK

• Mexico

• China

What is direct foreign aid?

• a tool of foreign policy where goods, services, money, and military aid are sent to another country for that nation's benefit

• a tool of foreign policy where military forces are sent in to control a situation in another country

What do ambassadors do?

• they represent their own country at formal business meetings

• the command troops overseas

• they represent their own country in another country