Group 1: The Sino-Soviet-American Triangle
James Fletcher
David Klemperer
Mariafiore Miniussi
Andrew Wallis
Group 2: American Interventionism
Sophia Anderson
Chloe Bootstaylor
Mary Catherine Cadden
Lucy Gregor
Group 3: Demographics and Popular Upheavel
Alexandria Cornwall
Sarah Baumann
Will Gietema
Group 4: The Post-Communist World
Amber Baade
Maria Barnett
Chloe Bryan
Group 5: Nuclear Proliferation
Aaron Banks
Morgan Smathers
Macon Wilson
Group 6: Genocide
Clayton Christian
Kristal Skrmetta
Lizzie Williams
Group 7: Partitioned States
Collin Beach
Andy Chen
Jacky Ullemeyer
Group 8: Political Islam and Related Issues
Rhiannon Mancinelli
Cameron McGarrah
Margit Mikkelsen
The Middle East (9/28 - 10/5)
Vocabulary
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?
