Review Sheet - Exam #1
 

containment                         Realism

asymmetrical response               symmetrical approach

national interest goals - 4 P's     Marshall Plan

Cold War                            mutual assured destruction (MAD)

Point Four                          Cold War foreign policy consensus

Rational actor model                Idealism

balance of power                    Cuban missile crisis

Vietcong                            Nixon - Kissinger and detente

bipolarity                          credibility

deterrence                          brinkmanship

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution           guerrilla war

Bureaucratic politics model         SALT I and SALT II

War Powers Act                      globalism

moralism                            Monroe Doctrine

NATO                                Rosenau's pre-theory (source variables)

League of Nations                   Korean War

Military Assistance Program (MAP)   P.L. 480 (Food for Peace)

NSC-68                              Truman Doctrine

U.S.A.I.D.                          decolonization

Operation Rolling Thunder           escalation

massive retaliation                 flexible response

economic development                Soviet expansionism

nationalism                         vital and peripheral interests

regional defense pacts              economic assistance

military assistance                 domino theory

Military-Industrial Complex         isolationism

George F. Kennan                    McCarthyism

OPEC                                Iran-Contra Affair

Mutual Security Act                 Foreign Assistance Act

collective security                 U.N. Security Council

arms control                       liberalism

context of international system    Third World

anarchy                            SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)

Reagan Doctrine                    Carter Doctrine

Camp David Accords                  assumptions of interdependence
 
 
 
  Typical Short Answer Issues:

What were some major problems with U.S. policy toward the Third World in the Cold War?

What features of the Cold War consensus were inconsistent with many Americans sense of U.S. purpose?

How did Reagan worry the Soviets with SDI?

What were some differences between the Marshall Plan and Point Four?

How did the domino theory play a role in the U.S. intervention in Vietnam?

Why did the U.S. not return to isolationism after World War II?

What some problems with the rational model of decision making in reality?

In what ways did Reagan end the era of detente?

Why did Americans oppose U.S. involvement in Vietnam?

What were the main differences between the Mutual Security Act and the Foreign Assistance Act?

 

Potential Essay Questions:
 

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Discuss Nixon and Kissinger's concept of detente as containment. What was detente suppose to accomplish? Why did detente ultimately fail?

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Discuss the evolution of containment strategy from it pronouncement in the Truman Doctrine. How was it initially conceived? Why did it change?

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Discuss the relevance of each of the national interest goals of power, peace, prosperity and principles. Discuss the relevance of each in the Cold War foreign policy of the U.S. Explain the distinctions.
 

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Discuss the constraints on rational decision making from the bureaucratic politics perspective. If bureaucracies are designed to enhance rationality, why can they make it difficult to achieve the rational ideal?
 

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Explain the concepts of symmetrical and asymmetrical approaches to threats to national security. Use the massive retaliation and flexible response strategies to examine the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
 

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