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Chapter Four
Roskin/Berry CH. 4
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International Studies
Undergraduate 3
07/10/2015

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Atlantic Charter
Definition
The 1941 Roosevelt-Churchill agreement on peace aims and basis of UN
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Bluff
Definition
Not supporting a declared national interest with sufficient power
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Containment
Definition
U.S. policy of blocking expansion of Soviet power, framed by Kennan in 1947
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Continent
Definition
The European mainland
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Crown
Definition
Powers of the British government
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Feasibility
Definition
Able to prevail without excessive force or cost
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Globalism
Definition
U.S. interests extending everywhere
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Imperialism
Definition
Spreading nation’s power over other lands
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Isolationism
Definition
U.S. avoidance of overseas involvement
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Joint Congressional Resolution
Definition
Passed by both houses, it has force of law; can allow president to go to war
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Just War
Definition
Doctrine of medieval Catholic philosophers that war under certain conditions can be moral
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Manifest Destiny
Definition
Slogan calling for a U.S. continental republic
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Marshall Plan
Definition
The 1947 call for massive U.S. aid to war-torn Europe
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McCarthyism
Definition
Senator Joseph McCarthy’s early-1950s accusations of treason in high places
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Objective
Definition
Can be empirically verified
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Political Generations
Definition
The memory of great events imprinted on the young people who have lived through them
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Strategy
Definition
Ends, ways, means
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Subjective
Definition
Cannot be empirically verified; depends on feelings
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Definition
The 1964 congressional permission for president to go to war in Vietnam
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Truman Doctrine
Definition
The 1947 presidential call to aid countries under Communist threat
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Vietcong
Definition
Informal name of Communist-led South Vietnamese National Liberation Front in the 1960s
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Vietminh
Definition
Communist Vietnamese anti-French liberation movement in the 1940s and 1950s led by Ho Chi Minh
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Wilsonian
Definition
Idealistic projection of U.S. power to create a peaceful world
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