Conflicts in Vietnam, Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, and Syria

Foreign Policy: The strategies that a country uses to safeguard its national interests abroad. It's like your personal rules for interacting with others outside your home.

Interventionism: The policy or doctrine of intervening in another nation’s affairs, especially militarily. Like if you saw someone being bullied at school and decided to step in.

War Powers Act: A federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without Congress' consent.