Study Guide for the Final

STUDY GUIDE FOR THE FINAL

• • I. CONCEPTS preemptive strike Brezhnev Doctrine • vulnerability • Carter Doctrine • wars of national liberation • “Sinatra” Doctrine • war as instrument of policy • missile gap • Reagan Doctrine • coercive diplomacy • Strategic Triad • Weinberger/Powell Doctrine • war as bargaining • damage-limiting • Kirkpatrick Doctrine • strategic coercion • counterforce strategy • Clinton Doctrine • deterrence • countervalue strategy • Bush Doctrine • compellence • Flexible Targeting • threat / promise • Strategic Sufficiency • credible commitment • Countervailing Strategy IV. PEOPLE • risk-return trade off • low-intensity conflict • rationalist causes of war • V.I. Lenin • nation-building • capitalist encirclement • Karl Marx • unilateralism • command economy • Joseph Stalin • war communism • Winston Churchill • collectivization II. GAME THEORY • Franklin D. Roosevelt • inevitability of war • Harry S. Truman • imperialist wars • strategic interaction • Henry Stimson • proletarian revolution • imperfect information • James Byrnes • cordon sanitaire • incomplete information • George Marshall • communist ideology • asymmetric information • Vyacheslav Molotov • infallibility of Kremlin • pure / mixed strategy • George Kennan • Iron Curtain • strategy profile • Dean Acheson • trip-wire (or glass-plate) • best response • Josip Tito • salami tactics • Nash equilibrium • Joseph McCarthy • constrain choice • Prisoner’s Dilemma • Paul Nitze • relinquish initiative • perfect equilibrium • Eduard Benesˇ • mutual alarm • backward induction • Klement Gottwald • cut off communication • sequential rationality • Chiang Kai-shek • reputation • consistent beliefs • Mao Tse-tung • strategic irrationality • sequential equilibrium • Douglas McArthur • brinkmanship • Crisis / Escalation Games • Nikita Khrushchev • limited retaliation • separating equilibrium • Leonid Brezhnev • hurt-more criterion • pooling equilibrium • Jacobo Arbenz • costly signaling • semi-separating equilibrium • Castillo Armas • signal jamming • Wladysław Gomułka • screening • Imre Nagy • incentive schemes III. DOCTRINES • Abdel Nasser • moral hazard • Fidel Castro • containment • Long Telegram • Anwar Sadat • rollback • Sources of Soviet Conduct • John F. Dulles • strategic nuclear forces • Domino Theory • Robert McNamara • tactical nuclear forces • Truman Doctrine • Fulgencio Batista • conventional war • Marshall Plan • Charles de Gaulle • Massive Retaliation • Defensive Perimeter • Ho Chi Minh • Graduated Deterrence • NSC-68 • Ngo Dinh Diem • Flexible Response • Peaceful Coexistence • Nguyen Van Thieu • Delicate Balance of Terror • New Look • Henry Kissinger • Mutually Assured Destruction • Eisenhower Doctrine • Mikhail Gorbachev • first-strike capability • No-Cities Doctrine • Boris Yeltsin • second-strike capability • Nixon Doctrine • Vladimir Putin

1 • Slobodan Milosevic • Iranian Coup, 1953 • Expulsion of Yugoslavia • Zbigniew Brzezisnki • Polish October, 1956 • NATO • Cyrus Vance • Hungarian Revolt, 1956 • SEATO • Caspar Weinberger • Sinai/Suez War, 1956 • Year of Shocks • George Shultz • Six Days War, 1967 • Rio Treaty • Colin Powell • War of Attrition, 1968-70 • Warsaw Pact • Ayatollah Khomeini • Yom Kippur War, 1973 • Soviet A-bomb • Saddam Hussein • Vietnam War, 1954-75 • Hydrogen bomb • Yasser Arafat • Prague Spring, 1968 • “loss” of China • Menachem Begin • Iranian Revolution, 1979 • McCarran Internal Security Bill • Yitzhak Rabin • Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-89 • Sputnik • Lebanon, 1982 • ICBM/SLBM • First Persian Gulf War, 1990-91 • SAC V. WARS &CRISES • Somalia, 1993 • ABM/BMEWS • Bosnia/Kosovo, 1991-99 • MIRV • First World War, 1914-1919 • Afghanistan War, 2001-02 • Sino-Soviet split • October Revolution • Second Persian Gulf War, 2003 • Great Leap Forward • Russian Civil War, 1918-21 • Alliance for Progress • Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05 • Dien Bien Phu • Russo-Polish War, 1920 VI. EVENTS &MISC. • Viet Cong • Khlakhin Gol • Geneva Accords, 1954 (Russo-Japanese), 1939 • Bolsheviks • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Winter War (Russo-Finnish), • CPSU • War Powers Act 1940 • Brest-Litovsk Peace • Tet offensive • Second World War, 1939-1945 • New Economic Policy (NEP) • Vietnamization • Iranian Crisis, 1946 • Five-Year Plan • Cambodia, 1971 • Turkish Crisis, 1946 • Nazi-Soviet Pact • Christmas Bombing • Greek Civil War, 1947-48 • Big Three • Paris Peace Agreement, 73 • Prague Coup, 1947 • Yalta Conference • Sandinistas/Contras • Berlin Airlift, 1948-49 • Potsdam Declaration • Camp David Accords, 1978 • Israel’s War of Independence, • Hiroshima / Nagasaki • SALT / ABM Treaty 1948 • Japanese surrender • START • Berlin Crisis, 1958 • Soviet “betrayal” in China • INF Treaty • Berlin Wall, 1961 • IMF • CFE Treaty • Bay of Pigs, 1961 • IBRD (World Bank) • SDI (BMD) • Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 • National Security Act, 1947 • Taliban • Korean War, 1950-53 • European Recovery Program • Sunni/Shia Muslims • Guatemala, 1953 • Cominform • IDF/PLO