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| Discouragment thorugh fear. An extension of Balance of Power logic. |
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| Restraining an enemy. Offensively or Defensively. Through Econ. or military. |
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| Three apporaches to the Cold War. (Who started it?) |
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| 1) Traditionalists: Stalin and the USSR. 2)Revisionists: USSR had a moderating influence. a)Soft Revisionists: Blame Truman for cutting of lend-lease. b)Hard revisionists:American economic hegemony could not tolerate an autarky. 3) Postrevisionists: Cold War was inevitable due to the post war bipolar balance of power. |
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| What was Roosevelt's Policy? |
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| Unconditional surrender from Germany, Liberal trade, Powerful UN security Council, Stalin underestimated. |
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| What was Stalin's Policy? |
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| Protective isolation, Probed weak spots in the west, and strengthened domestic control because of weakened communist ideology. |
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| 6 issues contributing to the conflict ( Cold War) |
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| 1) Poland, East Europe. 2)Lend-lease, denied loans 3) Germn reperations and reconstruction. 4)East Asia 5)Atomic Bomb, Baruch plan rejected. 6)Greece, Turkey, And the middle east |
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| What was Kennans argument about appeasement? |
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| Litvinov's perspective on appeasement? |
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| Warned against concession. The conflict between capitalist and communist was inevitable. |
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| What was the Truman Doctrine? |
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| A moralistic explanation for aid to Turkey and Greece. |
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| How did Stalin see the Marshall Plan? |
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| As a plan not to aid Europe economically but to destroy his security barrier in E. Europe. |
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| What is the NSC~68? Why did Truman sign it? |
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| a vast increase in the defense expenditure. Soviets had exploded an atom bomb earlier than anticipated and Communist part had taken China. |
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| Which areas (after the war) could tip the global balance of power? |
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| U.S, USSR, Europe, and Japan. |
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| Particulars about Russian culture: |
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| Strong, leaders, fear of anarchy and invasion, a shame about backwardness, and secrecy. |
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| Particulars about American culture: |
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| liberal democracy, fragmentation of power, pride in tech. and expanding economy. |
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| Another Term for Soviets vs. Americans? What does it equal? |
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| Soviet black box vs. American white noise machine = mutual confusion |
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| How has America's (Intro-Extro)version affected their foreign policy? |
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| Their inconsistency develops an openness that protects them from deeper mistakes. |
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| Where does America's (Intro-Extro)version come from? |
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| Their moralistic and public culture. |
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| What is a possession goal (What Soviets wanted)? |
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| What is a milleu goal? (What the American's wanted) |
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| intangiable goal. Such as a new setting for Intl Politics. |
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| Yalta: What did Stalin want at Yalta? |
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| Germany and Poland. (The countries Hitler had promised him). |
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| Yalta:What did Churchill want? |
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| He wanted France to be restored as to keep the Soviet in check. |
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| Yalta: What did Roosevelt want? |
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| He wanted the UN and an open international economic system. |
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| What was the difference between Soviet expansionism and Hitler's? |
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| 1) Soviets didn't want war. 2)It was strictly an opportunist. |
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| What was Kennan's containment idea? |
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| An dose of classical Diplomacy. (Should not help Yugoslavia because it was communist) |
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| What is classical diplomacy? |
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| A limited media exposure of politics. So that negotiations run less through the public eye and are easier to make. |
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| What did Gorbachev want with Communism? |
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| He wanted to reform communism not replace it. |
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| What were the three factors Gorbachev changed in communist policies? |
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| He had reconstruction, openness, and a foreign policy which he called "new thinking" |
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| What was the Korean War about- in terms of America? |
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| A civil war between the north and south in which the Americans interpreted as about communism and intervened. |
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| Gorbachev's plan to restructure |
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| An openness about democratization. |
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| What is imperial overstretch? |
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| Soviets enormous defense budget which affected healt care and mortality- negatively. |
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| What and When was de-stalinization? |
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| In 1956, when Stalin's crimes are exposed. |
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| What was the Baruch Plan? |
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| To establish a international control on nuclear weapons. |
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| What are the five political effects of the H-bomb? |
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| 1) concept of limited war was revived. 2) crises replaced war 3)Deterrence became key strategy 4)Proxy wars were superpower prudent 5)Stigma attach to use nuclear weapons. |
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| What is the second-strike capability? |
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| a country's capability to respond to a nuclear attack with nuclear retaliation |
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