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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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