Poly Sci Final

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george washington's farewell address

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avid supporter of isolationism, said to make no alliances

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monroe doctrine

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manifest destiny- wanted to expand US all that way accross the continent, didnt seem isolationist to native americans and mexicans because we took their territory

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roosevelt corollary

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extension of monroe doctrine, said its ok to stabilize small affairs in the carribean and central america

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spanish war

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US paid spain 20 million for cuba, guam, puerto rico, and the philipines

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US imperialism

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creation and maintenence of unequal politics, economy, and military. US overpowered other countries

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wilson and idealism

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idealist: get involved in everybody's affairs, act like world police.
gave his 14 points speech, helped form league of nations

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WWI

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began when archduke of austria was assassinated. our involvement seemed to end our isolationism towards europe

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yalta conference

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FDR, churchill, and stalin met to discuss reorganization of europe after WWII

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cold war

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1947-1989, conflict between US and russia over technology and fear of communism

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containment

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strategy to stall the spread of communism, prevent domino effect

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de tente

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easing of tensions between US and russia in the 70s for fear of nuclear war

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SALT

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strategic arms limitation talks. US and russia discussing arms control to help end cold war

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ABM treaty

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anti-balistic missile treaty. treaty between russia and US as part of SALT, limited anti-missile systems

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end of cold war

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reagan and gorbachev

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perestroioka

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restructuring the communist party of russia, said to be a cause of the dissolution of the soviet union and the cold war (gorbachev)

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glasnost

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period in the 80s where there was less censorship and more freedom of information (gorbachev)

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new thinking

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gorbachev's way to improve relations and trade with the west by reducing cold war tensions

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INF treaty

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intermediate range nuclear forces treaty, agreement between US and russia to eliminate intermediate and short range missiles

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NATO

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north atlantic treaty organization, started as a political association but after the korean war became more about military. germany was allowed in in 1954, russia was rejected and therefore created the warsaw pact.

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warsaw pact

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response to germany entering NATO, communist members, pledged to defend any member country that got attacked, ended in 1991

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NATO vs Warsaw

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implemented containment of each other and fought to win cold war

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CFE treaty

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conventional armed forces in europe treaty, proposed equal limits on weapons of mass destruction for NATO and warsaw near the end of the cold war

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START

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strategic arms reduction treaty, proposed by reagan to limit strategic offensive arms

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gulf war

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invation of kuwait by iraqi troops in 1990. old Bush sent forces to saudi arabia but let sadam stay in power instead of overthrowing the government in baghdad

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panama

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dictator of panama General Noriega was removed from power and captured (old bush)

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somalia

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America went into Somalia to help the relief effort against their drug lords (clinton- black hawk down) looked really bad on him bc he freed alot of people but left them screwed economically

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kosovo

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clinton was accused of inflating the number of people killed

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embassy bombings

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US embassies bombed in east africa, brought bin ladin to US attention for the first time

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president's role in foreign policy

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president proposes treaties but can enter into it only if ratified by 2/3 of the senate. only congress can declare war.

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national security council

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advise president on national security and foreign policy

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allison's 3 models of cuban missile crisis

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bay of pigs was a failure due to groupthink, didnt evaluate information before making decisions based off others opinions.
rational actors: key actors were political leaders
bureaucratic politics:different advice from top people
organizational model: standard operating procedures

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taliban

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islamic militia group in afghanistan

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sarkozy

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agreed to add france back to NATO military command

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insurgency

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armed rebellion against a constituted authority

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sectarian conflict

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violent conflict along religious or political lines such as shia vs sunni muslims

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the awakening "surge"

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tribal leaders persuaded to fight al qaeda after being given guns and money

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cost of middle east conflict

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a shit ton

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treaty of versailles

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ended WWI, put the blame for the war on germany and punished them harshly, US rejected the treaty

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WWII neutrality

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declared ourselves neutral then sold weapons to the germans and british but as the war went on only sold to british. entered war in 1941 to take down axis powers (germany, italy, japan)

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WWII

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1939-1945, FDR

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new world order

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started by bush sr, one universal gov

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iraq's ostensible causes

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made up causes- terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, etc

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iraq's real cause

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oil

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UN security council on iraq

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never authorized use of force but sent inspectors to look for wmd's

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coallition of willing

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all the countries that sent help with US to invade iraq although the UN didnt officially say to invade them, they chose to

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state's involvement in foreign policy

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only involved when issues relevent to each state arise