Foreign Policy Final 2

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Woodrow Wilson
28th president of the United States Kept us out of war
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George Kennan
He was an American diplomat and ambassador best known as "the father of containment"
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Isolationism
A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
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Idealism
broad moral principles
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National Interest
what is good for a country as a whole in international relations; often disputed
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Imperialism
domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region
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Marshall Plan
providing aid to Europe after WW2
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
Navy officer, advocated the expansion of sea power
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What decade it the US abandon isolationism
late 1890s
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Monroe Doctrine
Told Europe that colonization in western hemisphere was no longer allowed
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Manifest Destiny
A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
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What did George Washingtion say in his farwell speech
entangling affairs
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Who did the US ask for help from during the revolutionary war
France and Spain
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Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
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When did the US nuclear monopoly end?
1949
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What did the Senate do with the Treaty of Versailles
didn't ratify it
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who had panama as a territory?
Colombia
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What years were the US involved in WW1
1917-1918
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What did the US get during the Imperialist years
Puerto Rico Philippines Guam Wake and Hawaii
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Containment
American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
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Why did the US declare independence
unfair taxes right to govern and freedom
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Spanish-American War
splendid little war
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Sputnik
Soviet satellite (fear of missile gap)
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US National Interest from 1776-1900
acquiring lands solidifying nation and fighting wars if necessary
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. Soviets withdrew thier missiles
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What did Germany pay after WWI
reparations
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Internationalism
A national policy of actively trading with foreign countries to foster peace and prosperity
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Preemption
attacking before the other can attack
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Why did the US get involved in the 1990's Gulf War
Iraq invaded Kuwait
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Cold War
The political and economic confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States that dominated world affairs from 1946 to 1989.
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What resulted for US military after WW2
increased military size
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Robert McNamara
Secretary of Defense (we were wrong terribly wrong)
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Dien Bien Phu
The place that the final battle took place that forced the French out of Vietnam
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What did LBJ promise?
Never to send US boys to Vietnam
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Ho Chi MInh
Communist leader of North Vietnam
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Henry Kissinger
The main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese; secretary of state during Nixon's presidency (1970s).
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Tet Offensive
a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities in early 1968.
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Leader of South Vietnam
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Vietnamization
President Richard Nixons strategy for ending U.S involvement in the vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces
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Domino Theory
A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
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Le Duc Tho
peace negotiator for the North Vietnamese
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Geneva Accords
Temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel
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Vietminh
Communist group led by Ho Chi Minh
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Vietcong
North Vietnamese troops who used guerilla tactics
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When did LBJ know he was finished?
After the Tet Offensive
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Who won the Tet Offensive?
American / South Vietnamese forces.
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Why did JFK get into Vietnam
Stop communism, S Vietnam would fall, save bay of pigs
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Why did Ho Chi Minh become a communist?
He favored ending colonialism
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Green Berets
Special US forces that were trained to fight the Viet Cong's guerilla tactics
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Peace candidate in 1964?
LBJ
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What didn't the US people provide in Vietnam?
the will to win
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Who came up with Vietnamization
Richard Nixon
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What agreement ended the Vietnam War
Paris Peace Accords
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Who won the 1973 Nobel Prize?
Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger
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How many US combat troops were in Vietnam?
543,000
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Counterinsurgency
an effort to combat guerrilla armies
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam
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What did Nixon promise in 1968
To get us out of the war with honor
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Why did we fight in Vietnam
Stop the spread of communism
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Why did the US public feel misled by LBJ
he failed to keep his promises
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Responsible for the great purge
Stalin
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detente
the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
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Perestroika
restructuring
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Russian Revolutionary Group
Bolsheviks
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Vladmir Lenin
Leader of the Bolsheviks
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Comintern
Communist international
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Glasnost
openness
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet leader of the 1980s who worked with Reagan to end the Cold War
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Nikita Khrushchev
A Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also famous for denouncing Stalin and allowed criticism of Stalin within Russia.
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Boris Yeltsin
first president of the Russian Republic
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What did Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev work toward
ending the cold war
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Who did Lenin choose as his heir?
nobody
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What system has government ownership of the economy
Socialism
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
treaty between Russia and Germany that would end Russia's involvement in WWI in 1917
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Geopolitics
study of government and its policies as affected by physical geography
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What agreement gave the Soviets eastern Poland
Hitler-Stalin Pact
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What was the first sign of the Cuban Missile Crisis
ships from Russia
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Who denounced Stalin's crimes in a "secret speech"?
Khrushchev
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Who met at the Yalta Conference?
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
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Why didn't Eastern Europe like the Soviets?
Communization of its nations
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What did the Cold War center on
Eastern Europe
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What agreement divided Germany after WW2
Yalta Agreement
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What ended detente?
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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What were JFK's choices during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Attack Quarantine or Wait it out
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Why was the crisis more dangerous than thought?
Missiles were already in cuba
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What agreement limited missile deployment
SALT
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What Russian situation was like Vietnam for the US?
Invasion of Afghanistan
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What was the peak of the Cold War?
Cuban Missile Crisis
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US response to Soviets invading Afghanistan
Arms buildup, boycott of olympics, cancel grain sales
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Who only wanted to reform the soviet system
Gorbachev
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What country foreign policy does Russia resemble
USSR
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What countries rebelled against the Soviet Union
Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia
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Cold War years
1945-1991
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Who said "tear down this wall"?
Ronald Reagan
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What hasn't worked as planned in Russia
Capitalism
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What was one of Putin's goals
Restore pride
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What Chinese leader didn't follow Stalin's advice
Mao Ze Dong
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What did Lenin think would happen after the revolution
The Soviet Union would be great
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Nelson Mandela
First black president of South Africa
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Apartheid
A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites.