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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]?