American Imperialism Exam Review

American Imperialism Exam Flashcards

Reasons for US invasion of Iraq (EXCEPT)

Osama bin Laden is hiding out in Iraq

Counter-culture movement

Rejected the reasons for America’s involvement in Vietnam

All of the following were events demonstrating resentment, tensions and conflict between Iran and the US EXCEPT:

Operation Desert Storm

President Johnson's Vietnam decision

“Americanize” the war and fight to win!

Yalta meeting significance

established occupation zones in both Germany generally and Berlin specifically, setting the stage for the Cold War

While defining fascism is “like trying to nail Jell-o to a wall”, one thing that Gentile, Eco, Griffin, and Stanley all agree on is:

it is ultra-nationalistic, based on a national myth, vitality, or regeneration

Vietnam 'lesson learned' in Gulf War

Making it difficult to be “anti-war” by associating “supporting the troops” with “supporting the war”

Your friends (and mine) at the CIA staged (or encouraged) military coups (takeovers) in all of the following countries EXCEPT

Algeria

Argument for US as a force for good

The Marshall Plan, American involvement in Somalia, and D-Day

The argument that “the United States has been a force for good in the 20th century” would include:

The Marshall Plan, American involvement in Somalia, and D-Day

All of the following were “lessons learned” from America’s involvement in Vietnam EXCEPT:

Acting unilaterally (America acting on its own) is a demonstration of the might of a super-power

Nuremberg Trials importance

it established an expectation that those who committed “crimes against humanity” would be punished

Marshall Plan (EXCEPT)

Provided military, political and economic aid to allies of the United States

Appeasement Policy

the practice of European nations to give in to the demands of fascist nations in order to avoid war (which, in the end, resulted in war anyway)

Argument for US as a force for evil

The “tanker war”, Operation Iraqi Freedom, support for Allende

Rationalization for supporting dictators

they were better than the alternative: having governments friendly to the Soviet Union in power

key difference: Vietnam War vs. Operation Desert Storm

a clear military objective that would indicate what “winning” the conflict would be

Soviet Union believed __ was an intentional delay to weaken them

D-Day

The “blank check” from congress

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Official reason for Japanese internment

concerns and fears that these Americans maintained loyalty to the Emperor and country of Japan

The “Big Three”

Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt

Spread of Communism

supported the theory that communism needed to be contained, or it would spread

Berlin Airlift

an escalation showing the beginning of the Cold War as the Soviet Union sought to starve out Berlin and make it exclusively a city within the Soviet area of occupation

Effect of China going communist

reinforced the belief that communism needed to be “contained” lest it take over the world

Reason for CIA removing Mossadegh (EXCEPT)

Mossadegh was anti-American and sought favor with Islamic fundamentalists

USSR created "friendly" governments in East and Central Europe (EXCEPT)

the peoples of east and central Europe supported Soviet-friendly governments through free, open elections

Elements of a superpower (EXCEPT)

a thriving economy independent of global trade

US became superpower because:

All of the Above

American WWII strategy in Pacific

“island hopping”

America’s foreign policy following the Cold War was d

containing communism

Communist expansion result of

Huge Soviet losses and a determination that its borders would be secure

Reasons for using Atomic-bomb (EXCEPT)

in wartime, you use all the weapons you have at your disposal in order to win, regardless of the destruction or lives lost as a result

Nuclear armed nations

created bigger and bigger nuclear weapons as a form of an arms race

The rise and success of fascism first in Italy, and later in Germany was the result of all the following EXCEPT:

widespread support for a strong, authoritarian leader

True Holocaust statements (EXCEPT)

The internment of Americans of Japanese descent is similar to the deportation of Jews to the camps

Major concern about the USA PATRIOT Act

Expanded surveillance of American citizens who were seen as posing a potential threat to civil rights

US reluctancy to join the fighting in WWII (EXCEPT)

Americans wanted – and expected – the League of Nations to play its role in preventing another war

Why Cuba allied with USSR

The Bay of Pigs

Effects of Vietnam War (EXCEPT)

American’s trust in their government grew

American decisions creating problems - “biting the US in the ass” (EXCEPT)

The US liberating Kuwait from Iraqi occupation