Vocabulary
- Indivisible Issues
Questions
- What kept the US and USSR from fighting over the Middle East?
- What roles did the US and USSR play in Israel, Egypt and Iran during the Cold War?
- Is US involvement in the Middle East an example of offshore balancing or a hegemonic strategy leading to imperial overstretch?
- (Not discussed in class) What leads some ethnicities or nationalities to fight one another, when others can live together in relative peace?
Vietnam (10/8)
Vocabulary
- Winning Hearts and Minds
- Asymmetrical Warfare
- Guerilla Warfare
- People’s War
- Limited Warfare
Questions
- When did the US first get involved in Vietnam?
- How did the US get involved in Vietnam and why?
- Why was “winning hearts and minds” so important?
- Whom did the US initially put in charge of South Vietnam, and what kind of regime did he impose?
- What’s the difference between the Vietminh and the Vietcong?
- What factors can keep a more powerful actor from defeating a far less powerful one?
- What does it mean to fight a “limited war?” What exactly are you limiting?
- Why were the North Vietnamese so much more resolute than the Americans?
- Why, if LBJ had such doubts about US involvement in Vietnam, did he escalate instead of pulling out?
- What sorts of miscalculations did the US commit in regards to Vietnam?
- What was the aftermath of the US experience in Vietnam?
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