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-Must have obedience and disciple
-It is a personal structure of an institution.
-A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. |
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-Was created in 1939 then revised in 1994 by Bill Clinton.
-Restrictions for FEDERAL Employees |
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-Federal Bureau of Intelligence
-Sensitive Agencies, highly Bureaucratic
-J. Edgar Hoover started it.
-Deals with international terrorism
-The FBI is an intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security organization with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities—the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Justice and a full member of the U.S. Intelligence Community. |
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-Central Intelligence Agency
-Highly Bureaucratic
-is responsible for providing intelligence on a wide range of national security issues to senior US policymakers. |
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-a policy governing international relations.
-Foreign policy dictates how a country will act with respect to other countries politcally, socially, economically, and militarily, and to a somewhat lesser extent, how it behaves towards non-state actors. |
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| The relations among nations. |
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-A committee in the executive branch that advises the president on matters relating to domestic, military, and foreign security matters. It also directs the operation of the CIA. This group is composed of the President, VP, Secretart of state, secretary of Defense, director of the CIA and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff that determines means by which domestic, foreign, and military policy can best be integrated for safeguarding the national security.
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-can occur at both the federal and state level
-is a formal process in which an official is accused of lawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office.
may only be impeached and removed for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors". |
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-is a concept/institution of 2 houses
-the Framers created a bicameral Congress so that each state would have an equal representation in the Senate and a representation in the House of Representatives based on the state's population. This way each state is equal in the Senate, no matter what population of the state. And, for states with a high population, such as California, they have more representatives in the House to more equally represent the number of people in the state. |
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-consists of 535 members
-Made up of Senate and House of representatives
-Ruled by congressman
1) who create, reform, pass laws
2) Representation
3)Reconcile societal differences
4)Resolve national issues-international
5)Make laws for nation(310 mil people)
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Jo Biden(Vice-President of the US)
Breaks ties on the congressional floor and serve a judge-like postion
*Has 100 members, has 2 from each state
*6 year term
Fewer restraints(flexible rules)
State representation
More media coverage
Power more evenly coveraged
More prestigious postition-some run for presidency
*upper chamber
focus on domestic and international issues |
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-435 members
-2 year term
-lower chamber
more restraints
narrower constituency
less media coverage
less prestigious postition
focus on domestic issues
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A person who makes laws
Belong to the legislative branch of the US government, and at a federal level serve in Congress in either the House of Representatvies or the Senate. |
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Lyndon Johnson 1963-75
Ho Chin Minh lead the march from top to bottom of viet cong to Sigon
65,000 died
1963 Americans went to Vietnam to fight, was the longest war, we lost and left 1973
Lost cause because American Civil rights movement started, Media-war coverage for the first time-FOIA is passed, territory, (sex, drugs & rock n roll 1960) changes in 'murica- saw demonstrations) |
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1962, DIA took pictures of ships and they noticed the bottom of the ships were missiles. These ships were headed to cuba.
The Crisis was mainly started by two countries in 1962, one of them the USSR. A Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, was worried about the fact that the US had nuclear missiles only 150 miles away in Turkey, short work for a missile. Also, Khrushchev knew that no matter what Kennedy, President at the time, said while in his campaign, the Americans had more missiles than the Soviets. Thus, the USSR felt endangered. The other main cause was the Cuban fear of a US invasion.
When telling the public about the Crisis, Kennedy said he would impose a blockade around Cuba. He thought that blockade sounded the least like a proclamation of war. Towards the end of the Crisis, Khrushchev sent Kennedy two conflicting letters. One letter stated that the Cuban missiles would be removed if the US promised not to invade Cuba. The other was slightly more threatening. It said that if the Americans had missiles in Turkey, close to the USSR, why shouldn’t the Soviets have missiles in Cuba, close to the US? Kennedy of course stuck with the first letter and said that if the USSR removed the missiles, the USA would end the quarantine of Cuba and would promise not to invade said island. Khrushchev had until Oct. 27 to respond. If they didn’t reply by then, the US would conduct a military invasion of Cuba. On the 27th exactly, the USSR said they would remove the missiles. The dreaded Crisis was finally over.
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Presides(President) over the senate
The electoral college chooses the VP, who holds office for a term of four years.
Takes over if something ever happens to President |
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13 articles of confederation
-9 justices= 6 males+3 females
-27 amendments
-presides over the law
-the rule of four(is a supreme court of the US) practice that permits four of the mine justices to grant a writ of certiorari(is an order sent from a higher court to a lower court to turn in documents)
Samuel Alito-catholic |
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| is an order a higher court issues in order to review the decision and proceedings in a lower court and determine whether there were any irregularities. |
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invasion in 1961
Promoted by the CIA, Castro came to power, 1500 men landed and where abused, killed and captured all JFK's fault
The invasion was originally planned to occur at the city of Trinidad, but President Kennedy thought that they needed a more secluded place. The Bay of Pigs was chosen instead. The idea was that planes would fly in first and destroy the air force. Then the invasion force of 1500 soldiers would land. They hoped that the Cuban people would join them in rebelling against Castro.
The CIA tried to plan the invasion in secret, however, too many people knew and word got out. The Cubans knew the invasion was coming.
The invasion occurred on April 17, 1961. It did not go well. Although the Cuban air force was damaged by early air strikes, there were still planes left to attack the invaders. Once the invasion started, it took too long for the troops and ammunition to get off the ships. Before the ammunition could be unloaded, Cuban planes sunk the invader's ships.
Many of the paratroopers, who were supposed to slow down Castro's forces on the ground, landed at the wrong place or in the swamps. Soon the invaders were surrounded by a much larger force and were running out of ammunition. They tried to retreat, but most were eventually captured and put into prison.
The results were disastrous for the United States. The government looked weak and the CIA inept. It also seemed to strengthen Castro's government within Cuba and caused him to look to the Soviet Union as a military ally. |
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He strongly believed that the Soviet Union needed liberalization in order to revitalize the economy and society. He implemented two reforms(Glasnost, Perestroika). He opened the door to allow Soviet citizens to travel, cracked down on alcohol abuse, and pushed for the use of computers and technology.
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Soviets could freeely voice their opinions
It also opened the doors for traveling and to experience eastern Europe and to explore Russia |
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| Was to restructure the Soviet, they could open their own buisnesses. |
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-"Beef up system for defensive"
-Raised taxes to fund program
-Lots of homelessness, women discriminated against
-intent to fight soviets.
Was proposed by Ronald Reagan in 1983 to use ground-based systems and space-based systems to protect the US from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction. |
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Recognized after the ww1 ended. Famous conference-treaty of Versailles attendes(France, Austria, Italy, G. Britain, Germany)
Germans started blaming minors for economic nationalism.
Bad ideology, economic nationalism. |
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John McCain
2 policies: Fiscal policy- macroeconomics- Gvt policy that relates to taxes and gvt spending
Monetary policy- Microeconomics- Growth of money supply, "Federal Reserve Bank"(money is balances. Interest rates, beacon score, credit history |
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| Directs policies to US district banks-> Oversees and regulates activities -> All other banks and financial institutes. FDIC $250,000 insured. |
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Reduction of missiles
During that period the United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments. In a Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems, they moved to end an emerging competition in defensive systems that threatened to spur offensive competition to still greater heights |
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Each chamber of Congress has committees set up to perform specific functions, enabling the legislative bodies to accomplish their often complex work more quickly with smaller groups.
There are approximately 250 congressional committees and subcommittees, each charged with different functions and all made up of members of Congress. Each chamber has its own committees, although there are joint committees comprising members of both chambers. Each committee, going by chamber guidelines, adopts its own set of rules, giving each panel its own special character. |
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| John Boehner( As of Jan 2011) Third person in the line of succession to the president. Highest official in congress. |
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| Takes 6 subcommittees, take the bill to each subcommittee must agree. if a subcommittee doesnt like it they give feedback and send it back to senate, senate takes it back to the primart committees then thru the same or different subcommittees. once it goes through senate and 2 options, president can sign it or he can ceto it and it goes for a 2/3's or 66% vote through senate. |
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| The United States district courts are the trial courts of the federal court system. Within limits set by Congress and the Constitution, the district courts have jurisdiction to hear nearly all categories of federal cases, including both civil and criminal matters |
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| Senate- ancient law created by the Romans |
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| handles civil claims under $15,000.00. A Magistrate Judge holds an informal hearing to listen to and decide each case. Any person may file a claim against a person or business in Magistrate Court without an attorney, or you may have an attorney represent you if you choose. However, this will be at your own expense. The Court does not appoint attorneys for civil cases. |
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| OMB Office of Management and Budget |
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is a member of the President's Cabinet. The main job of the OMB is to assist the President to prepare the budget.[2] The OMB also measures the quality of agency programs, policies, and procedures and to see if they comply with the President's policies.
is the largest component of the Executive Office of the President. It reports directly to the President and helps a wide range of executive departments and agencies across the Federal Government to implement the commitments and priorities of the President |
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Liberal
wrote the wealth of the nations(900 pg book) |
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book about
1.divorce politics and economics(its a circle they each drive each other,mutual interdependence)
2. Laissez-Faire- Let it be, don't let the gvt get involved.
3.The invisible hand(drives people toward competition.
4. Liberalism-impression on self-education-profit=sucess
5. Positive sum gain |
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let it be, dont let the gvt get involved
-s an economic environment in which transactions between private parties are free from government restrictions, tariffs, and subsidies, with only enough regulations to protect property rights. |
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Adam Smith- Hand drives people toward competition, forces competition which gives them hope.
-that individuals' efforts to maximize their own gains in a free market benefits society, even if the ambitious have no benevolent intentions. |
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| The economic Consequence of Peace |
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-is a book written and published by John Maynard Keynes. Keynes attended the Versailles Conference as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a much more generous peace.
-It helped to consolidate American public opinion against the treaty and involvement in the League of Nations. The perception by much of the British public that Germany had been treated unfairly in turn was a crucial factor in public support for appeasement. |
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| The employment act of 1946 |
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| -Its main purpose was to lay the responsibility of economic stability of inflation and unemployment onto the federal government. |
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| was a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad. |
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| The Korean War was fought between South Korea and communist North Korea. It was the first major conflict of the Cold War as the Soviet Union supported North Korea and the United States supported South Korea. The war ended with little resolution. The countries are still divided today and North Korea is still ruled by a communist regime |
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| relaxation, easing of tensions |
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| was an international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech[1] on March 12, 1947, which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere.[2] Historians often consider it as the start of the Cold War, and the start of the containment policy to stop Soviet expansion.[3] President Harry S. Truman told Congress the Doctrine was "to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. |
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| MAD- Mutual Assured Destruction |
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| s a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender,[1] becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction. |
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| is an Alliance that consists of 28 independent member countries. |
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was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
-The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. Within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, Yalta became a subject of intense controversy. |
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