Exam 4: Rivalries and Relations Among the Great Powers

What was the theory popular during the Cold War that predicted that if one state fell to communism, its neighbors would also fall in a chain reaction?

By the year 2025, some estimate that the greatest economic power on earth will be ____________.

Based on various episodes of confrontation with the Soviet Union, President Harry Truman began to pursue a doctrine called détente.

The use of armed force by Nazi Germany to expand state power helped explain its realist view of state aggression.

Explain the doctrine of peaceful coexistence.

One consequence of World War I was a realization of the failures of liberalism to maintain world peace.

One of the consequences of the end of the Cold War was the emergence of a multipolar distribution of power.

Which Soviet leader proposed peaceful coexistence with capitalism?

President Carter's suspension of grain exports to the Soviet Union and boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics was in response to

The strategy of using one's economic and military power to influence only particular situations deemed to be important by striking a balance between interventionism and isolationism is known as______________________.

The Truman Doctrine, which defined U.S. strategy vis-à-vis the Soviet Union during the Cold War, stated that

The rationalist view of the cause of World War I states that

Students of political psychology often point out that foreign policy decision makers selectively perceive international events, with the result that these events can take on quite different meanings depending upon the perceiver. When applied to the East-West conflict that erupted in the wake of World War II, this interpretation of world politics suggests that the superpowers' misperceptions of each other's motives provide a better explanation of the Cold War than explanations based on either conflicting interests or ideologies. Compare Soviet and American images of each other in each of the three phases of the Cold War. To what extent did mirror images and self-fulfilling prophesies contribute to the course of superpower relations across the Cold War era?

Fascism refers to

The leaders of what three states met at the Yalta Conference to design a new world order?

Linkage strategy is the idea that leaders should take a country's overall behavior into account when reaching agreements so as to link cooperation with rewards.

The relaxation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States is a policy known as

Criticisms of long-cycle theory include which of the following?

The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 was a multilateral treaty that outlawed

One of the criticisms of long-cycle theory is that it does not allow for the actions of policy makers.