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HSI EXAM 1/37 COMPLETE Q’S AND A’S
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HSI EXAM 1/37 COMPLETE Q’S AND A’SWhat were some early threats to the U.S. homeland in its first hundred
years? - -
-What entities were created out of the National Security Act of 1947? - -• A
unified military command: National Military Establishment - renamed
Department of Defense, 1949
• U.S. Air Force•Central Intelligence Agency
• National Security Council
• Joint Chiefs of Staff
-What are the three elements of the Nuclear Triad? - -1) Long Range
Bombers
2) Intercontinental ballistic missile
3) Submarine-launched ballistic missile
-When/Where was the attack on the USS Cole? - -When: 12 October 2000
Where: Yemen's Aden harbor
-Homeland Security - -The broad national effort by all levels of government
- federal, state, local, and tribal - to protect the people, and territories of the
U.S. from all threats and hazards, both foreign and domestic, in order to
ensure liberty, and the free flow of people and commerce.
-Homeland Defense - -is the protection of U.S. sovereignty, territory,
domestic population, and critical defense infrastructure against external
threats and aggression, or other threats as directed by the President, and is
primarily a military activity.
-What year was Public Law 107-296 enacted? - -2002
-What were some of the provisions of Homeland Security Act? - -
-What are the three branches of government in the United States? - -1)
Executive
2) Judicial
3) Legislative
-Which Article of the U.S. Constitution outlines the powers in the Executive
Branch?, Legislative Branch?, and the Judiciary? - -Executive: Article 2
Judicial: Article 3
Legislative: Article 1
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