foreign policy final review

review for foreign policy :P

woodrow wilson

28th president, created league of nations

george kennan

soviet specialist, created containment policy

isolationism

us avoidance of overseas involvement

define national interest

what’s good for a country as a whole in international relations

what is foreign policy with broad moral principles

idealism

define imperialism

assessing overseas colonies; building empires and a nation forcing social and economic beliefs on another

what was the marshall plan

plan to rehabilitate the economies of european countries

who advocated the expansion of sea power

alfred thayer mayham

during what decade did the us abandon isolationism

1940s

what was the monroe doctrine

aimed at keeping europe out of western hemisphere

what is manifest destiny

god given right of us to expand and populate na

what did george washington warn of in his farewell

beware of entangling alliances

who did the colonies want help from during the revolution

france or spain

what was the truman doctrine

us would provide political, military, and economic help to democratic nations

when did the us nuclear monopoly end

1949

what happened to the treaty of versailles in the senate

it failed

what country possessed panama before the canal was built

columbia

during what year ws the us in world war 1

1917-1918

what did we gain during our imperialist years

puerto rico, guam, phillipines, hawaii, samoa

define containment

stopping the spread of communism

why did the us declare independence

our national interests were different than great britains

“splendid little war”

spanish-american war

what was sputnik

the russian satellite, led to fears of a missile gap

what was us national interest from 1776-1900

acquiring land, fighting wars when needed, solidifying nations

what resulted from the cuban missile crisis

soviets removed their missiles

what did germany pay after world war 1

reparations

what is internationalism

promoting international cooperation

preemption

strike an enemy before they hit us

why did the us get involved in the 1990s gulf war

iraq invaded kuwait, the worlds oil supply was in jeopardy

cold war

soviets and us, no blood was shed, thats why it is called cold

what resulted for us military after ww2

military increase

robert mcnamara

created strategy for vietnam war, secretary of defense under jfk and lbj

what was dienbienphu

hell in a very small place, battle between france and vietnam

what did lbj promise

no more troops to vietnam during 1964 election

ho chi minh

north vietnamese rep at paris peace accords, communist leader of north vietnam

henry kissinger

negotiated the peace of honor

what was tet

the vietnamese new year, the offensive where we thought the war was over

ngo din diem

led south vietnam, ignored geneva accords provision for elections

who came up with the “vietnamization”

melvin laird

what is the domino theory

eisenhower, if one southeast asian country falls to communism, all will

le duc tho

north vietnam political leader, negotiated ceasefire during vietnam war

geneva accords

divided vietnam and set the elections, and a ceasefire

what was the vietminh

communist vietnamese anti-french liberation movement in the 1940-50s by ho chi minh

describe the vietcong

informal name of communist led south vietnamese liberation front in 1960s

when did lbj know he was finished

after tet offensive

who won tet

americans in numbers

why did jfk get into vietnam

stop spread of communism, south vietnam fall, save face after bay of pigs

why did ho chi minh become a communist

he favored ending colonialism

what were the green berets

jfk vietnam project

peace candidate in 1964

lbj

what didn’t the us people provide in vietnam

all but the will to win

what was vietnamization

the process of replacing us troops with south vietnamese troops

what agreement ended the vietnam war

paris peace agreements

who won the 1973 nobel prize

le duc tho and henry kissinger

how many us combat troops were in vietnam

543,000

counterinsurgency

green berets

gulf of tonkin resolution

1964 congressional resolution authorizing lbj to take military action in vietnam

what did nixon promise in 1968

end of war and return to law and order

why did we fight in vietnam

stop spread of communism

did the us public feel misled by lbj

yes

responsible for “the great purge”

joseph stalin

define detente

relaxation of tension

what is perestroika

economic restructuring

russian revolutionary group

the bolsheviks

vladimir lenin

russian founder of the bolsheviks and elader of russian revolution

what was comintern

central organization of communist countries

define glasnost

openness

mikhail gorbachev

wanted to repair the soviet economy

nikita khruschev

soveit leader during cmc, famous for denouncing stalin, and allowed criticism of stalin

boris yeltsin

first elected president of russia

what did richard nixon and leonid brezhnev work toward

detente

who did lenin choose as his heir

no one

what system has government ownership of the economy

socialism

treaty of brest-litovsk

ended russians ww1 involvement

what is geopolitics

studying the impact of geography on international politics

what agreement gave the soviets eastern poland

hitler-stalin pact

what was the first sign of the cuban missile crisis

increase in freighter traffic

who denounced stalin’s crimes in a “secret speech”

nikita kruschev

who met at yalta

stalin, fdr, churchill

why didn’t eastern europe like the soviets

soviets used force to stay in control

what did the cold war center on

eastern europe

what agreement divided germany after ww2

yalta agreement

what ended detente

the soviet invasion of afghanistan

what were jfks choices during the cuban missile crisis

bomb, invade, quarantine

why was the crisis more dangerous than thought

there was nuclear warheads in cuba

what agreement limited missile deployment

salt treaty

what russian situation was like vietnam for the us

afghanistan

what was the peak of the cold war

cuban missile crisis

us response to soviets invading afghanistan

arms build up, olympic, boycott, cancelled grains sales

who only wanted to reform the soviet system

mikael gorbachev

what countrys foreign policy does russia’s resemble

the soviet union

what countries rebelled against the soviet union

hungary, czechoslovokia, poland

cold war years

147-1989

who said “tear down this wall”

ronald reagan

what hasn’t worked as planned in russia

capitalism

what was one of putin’s goals

restore russian pride

what chinese leader didn’t follow joseph stalin’s advice

mao zedong

what did lenin think would happen after the revolution

the revolution would spread

nelson mandela

freed after a life sentence, first president of south africa

define apartheid

legal separation of the races