Homeland Security (All questions are correctly solved)

What is homeland security? correct answers An area of inquire whose improved understanding could make the US people safer from extreme unanticipated threats. What is civil defense? correct answers What people do without their own communities to protect themselves not considering any federal assistance, self-awareness. What is the exclusive view of Homeland Security? correct answers Keeping terrorism out of the country What is the inclusive view of Homeland Security? correct answers Focuses on hazardous threats that are unexpected (Hurricane Katrina) Four phases of Emergency Management Cycle correct answers Mitigation: Assessing risk behaviors to prevent disasters Preparedness: Planning, getting resources from other agencies. Response: Acting during a disaster. Recovery: To aid in damaged or lost goods. Key provisions of the Stafford Act correct answers Once state and local have exhausted all of their resources & ask for FEMA help. Needs to be declared by the governor and approved by the President. FEMA states the denial. What are the main federal agencies that are part of the DHS? correct answers FEMA Coast Guard Secret Service Border Patrol ICE How did the DHS come into existence? correct answers Department of Homeland Security was created in 2003 after 9/11 Has 22 agencies Which agencies are new in the DHS? correct answers TSA is the newest, it was created in 2001. What are the types of threats to Homeland Security today? correct answers Existential (Pandemic) Serious (China) Inconvenient (Terrorism) Cyber