U.S. Diplomatic History Since 1914 HIUS 352 Spring 2006 Final Exam Review Sheet I. ID-SIG The following list includes most of the major events, ideas, people, and programs that we have either discussed in class or read about in the texts. You should have at least a passing familiarity with each of these items. For this section of the exam, I’ll ask you either to identify the item in question and comment on its significance to the practice American foreign relations. People Richard M. Nixon Henry Kissinger Ngo Dinh Diem Nguyen Van Thieu Willy Brandt Paul Nitze Gerald R. Ford Jimmy Carter Cyrus Vance Zbigniew Brzezinski Patricia Derian Anwar el-Sadat Menachem Begin Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Jeanne Kirkpatrick Ronald Reagan Al Haig Caspar Weinberger Richard Perle George Shultz Mikhail Gorbachev Eduard Shevardnadze George H. W. Bush James Baker Bill Clinton Warren Christopher Les Aspin Colin Powell Richard Holbrooke Mohammed Farah Aidid Slobodan Milosevic Raul Cedras Madeline Albright George W. Bush Richard Armitage Donald Rumsfeld Paul Wolfowitz Condoleeza Rice Dick Cheney Events/Treaties/Programs/IdeasRwandan Genocide Dayton Peace Accords Nixon Doctrine Invasion of Cambodia Paris Peace Talks Paris Peace Accords Triangulation Détente Committee on the Present Danger SALT I SALT II Helsinki Process Jackson-Vanik Amendment Panama Canal Treaty Camp David Accords, 1978 Recognition of PRC Taiwan Relations Act Iranian Revolution Desert One Pershing II Missile Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Carter Doctrine “zero option” START Talks “Evil Empire” Strategic Defense Initiative KAL 007 Able Archer Invasion of Grenada “Ivan and Anya” speech Reykjavik INF Agreement The Boland Amendment(s) Reagan Doctrine Sandinistas Iran-Contra Vietnamization Revolutions of 1989 Jean-Bertrand Aristide Raul Cedras “2 + 4” German Reunification The Gulf War Collapse of the Soviet Union START I Somalia and Operation Operation “Restore Hope” The Balkan Wars Haiti and the Harlan County Kosovo Clinton DoctrineII. Essays In preparing for the essay portion of the exam you should consider: · the historical forces leading to the end of the Cold War; · the role of nuclear weapons as focal points of East-West confrontation and inter-alliance affairs; · the evolution of “containment” over space and time; · the rise and fall of “détente”; · the promotion of “human rights” as a U.S. foreign policy objective; · the nature of Wilsonianism and its relevance for U.S. foreign policy throughout the period in question; · morality as an element in U.S. foreign policy; · examples of continuity and change in the practice of U.S. foreign relations; and · the effect of domestic politics on U.S. foreign policy. N.B.: As with the previous exams, this guide is intended to aid you in your studying. It is not meant to be inclusive of all the terms, events, individuals, and ideas mentioned in class or in the texts. It is, however, a pretty fair representation of the pool from which the IDs and essay questions will be