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What is the State What is the State Department?Department?
Handles relations with Handles relations with other nations other nations
What is the What is the President’s Cabinet?President’s Cabinet?All the department All the department
chairs gathered chairs gathered togethertogether
What is the What is the Department of Department of Agriculture?Agriculture?
Responsible for food Responsible for food safetysafety
What is the What is the Defense Defense
Department?Department?Has its headquarters in Has its headquarters in
the Pentagonthe Pentagon
Since 2002, coordinates Since 2002, coordinates efforts to protect the nation efforts to protect the nation
from terrorist attackfrom terrorist attack
What is the Department of What is the Department of Homeland Security?Homeland Security?
Provides the NSC with Provides the NSC with information about other information about other
nations’ abilities and nations’ abilities and intents intents
What is the CIA?What is the CIA?
Control actions of Control actions of businesses to prevent businesses to prevent harm or protect rightsharm or protect rights
What are regulatory What are regulatory commissions?commissions?
In the Department of In the Department of Transportation, responsible Transportation, responsible for aircraft safety and travelfor aircraft safety and travel
What is the Federal What is the Federal Aviation Aviation
Administration?Administration?
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In the Department of In the Department of Justice, responsible for Justice, responsible for
federal law enforcement federal law enforcement and investigationand investigation
What is the Federal What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation?Bureau of Investigation?
Collects the nation’s Collects the nation’s taxestaxes
What is the Internal Revenue What is the Internal Revenue Service?Service?
Enforces environmental Enforces environmental policypolicy
What is the What is the Environmental Environmental
Protection Agency?Protection Agency?
Oversees the nation’s Oversees the nation’s TV and radio broadcasts TV and radio broadcasts
and conductand conduct
What is the Federal What is the Federal Communications Communications
Commission?Commission?
Oversaw the launch of the Oversaw the launch of the New Horizons space probe, New Horizons space probe, scheduled to reach Pluto in scheduled to reach Pluto in
20152015
What is the National What is the National Aeronautics and Space Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]?Administration [NASA]?
These agencies are These agencies are responsible to enforce responsible to enforce government laws and government laws and
regulations regulations
What are executive What are executive agencies?agencies?
Controls the nation’s Controls the nation’s money supply money supply
What is the Federal What is the Federal Reserve [the Fed]?Reserve [the Fed]?
Office in the EOP that Office in the EOP that includes the President’s includes the President’s
closest advisors and closest advisors and assistantsassistants
What is the White House What is the White House Office?Office?
Serves as the President’s Serves as the President’s spokesperson to the mediaspokesperson to the media
Who is the press Who is the press secretarysecretary??
Usually the most important and Usually the most important and influential member of the influential member of the
President’s staffPresident’s staff
Who is the White House Who is the White House Chief of Staff?Chief of Staff?
Advises the President in Advises the President in matters of urgent need, matters of urgent need,
often requiring some often requiring some military actionmilitary action
What is the National What is the National Security Council?Security Council?
Prepares the national Prepares the national budget and oversees its budget and oversees its
implementationimplementation
What is the Office of What is the Office of Management and Budget Management and Budget
[OMB]?[OMB]?
The highest ranking officer The highest ranking officer in the U.S. militaryin the U.S. military
Who is the Chairman of Who is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Branch of the military Branch of the military responsible for the responsible for the
nation’s land-based ICBMs nation’s land-based ICBMs
What is the United What is the United States Air Force?States Air Force?
The President’s closest The President’s closest advisor on matters of advisor on matters of
national securitynational security
Who is the National Who is the National Security Advisor [NSA]?Security Advisor [NSA]?
The amount of time the The amount of time the President has to remove President has to remove
troops from combat if troops from combat if Congress does not approve Congress does not approve
of the actionof the action
What is 60 days?What is 60 days?
The main reason the The main reason the Commander-in-Chief, Sec. of Commander-in-Chief, Sec. of Defense and military branch Defense and military branch
secretaries are civilianssecretaries are civilians
What is the threat of a What is the threat of a military takeover [coup]? military takeover [coup]?
The President’s lawyerThe President’s lawyer
Who is the White House Who is the White House Council?Council?
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American foreign policy American foreign policy prior to World War IIprior to World War II
What is isolationism?What is isolationism?
Who is the Attorney Who is the Attorney General?General?
The only department head The only department head not called a secretarynot called a secretary
What are the What are the independent independent
agencies?agencies?Conduct most of the work Conduct most of the work of the Executive Branch of the Executive Branch
What is an ambassador?What is an ambassador?
Appointed by the Appointed by the President to represent the President to represent the United States in another United States in another
countrycountry
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Oversees and Oversees and regulates trading on regulates trading on the stock exchangethe stock exchange
What is the Securities What is the Securities and Exchange and Exchange
Commission [SEC]?Commission [SEC]?