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Midterm Study Terms

What follows is a list of Terms, Concepts, and Quotes from which TEN will be chosen for the Midterm Exam on March 19 I am posting this on March 14 and may add a few more over the weekend.

The game of Chicken
The Melian Dialogue
The Tet Offensive
“the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. . .”
realism
isolationism
liberal internationalism
American exceptionalism
unilateralism vs. multilateralism
The Prisoners Dilemma
The Security Dilemma
Offense-defense differentiation and nuclear weapons
Rousseau’s stag hunt
The globalist perspective
Containment vs. roll back
George Kennan
Anarchy
Factors that mute or attenuate anarchy
The Iron Curtain
The national security state
Unipolar, bipolar, and multipolar systems
The influence of the “group” on foreign policy decision-making
Tocqueville’s argument for the relationship between democracy and peace
“The myth of American repression”
Huntington’s view of the relationship between American foreign policy goals and is political principles.
Warning against the search for “Monsters to Destroy”
“Free Security”
Washington’s Farewell Address
The Monroe Doctrine
The Open Door
Mr. X
The Domino Theory
“North Viet-Nam has attacked the independent nation of South Viet-Nam. Its object is total conquest.”
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution
NSC 68
The Theory of Monolithic Communism
Conservative vs. Liberal Realists
Deterrence
MAD vs. COFFIN
Liberal Pacifism
Manifest Destiny
The Louisiana Purchase
The Indian Removal Act
“Anti-Colonial Imperialism”
The Maine
Yellow Journalism
The Liberal Democratic “core” of nations
The Marshall Plan
Suez Crisis
Iran, 1953
Jacabo Arbenz
John Foster Dulles
Bay of Pigs
McCarthyism
Military Industrial Complex
"We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked."
A Megaton
Fusion weapons
Geneva Accords
Ngo Dinh Diem
“The world must be made safe for democracy.”
“An Empire for Liberty”
National Liberation Front (NLF)
Nation building
flexible response
"no blood for oil"