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FINAL EXAM ROOM CHANGE

Dear 17.42 students,

Because Walker gym is not appropriate for laptop use, we had to change the room for our final exam. The new room is E51-315 (east campus across from the Sloan School). We will also bring a few bluebooks for those of you who for any reason cannot bring a laptop to the exam.

Good luck on behalf of all the 17.42 staff,

Evan

Announced on 24 May 2006  11:47  a.m. by Evan Liaras

Final Exam

1. Final exam questions are now posted on stellar (Materials /General)
2. Review Sections: each of the TAs is going to hold a review section. All the review sections are open to all students – come with questions!!!

EVAN: TUESDAY; MAY 23; 6-8PM; E51-061
ROB: WEDNESDAY; MAY 24;3-5:30PM; E51-376
MICHAL: THURSDAY; MAY 25; 2-4PM; E51-376

Announced on 22 May 2006  10:53  p.m. by Michal Ben-Josef-Hirsch

Terms for Final

Causes and Prevention of War
Terms for final

The list below includes terms and concepts that appeared in your lectures and readings and may appear on your final. This is by no means a complete list, but it should help you while you are doing your readings and preparing for the quiz.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FINAL COVERS THE WHOLE SEMESTER SO YOU SHOULD ALSO REVIEW THE LISTS-OF-TERMS FOR THE PREVIOUS TWO QUIZZES (included in the following pages).

Remember that in the final you will be asked to identify and define the terms as well as to discuss and demonstrate (with examples) their relevance to the causes of war or their prevention.

Early Cold War Crises (1946-1948)
Containment
Acheson's January 1950 speech (“Defense Perimeter”)
Ambassador Panikkar
Inchon landing
MacArthur (role on Korean War)
The 38th Parallel
“The Loss of China”
The "run to the Yalu"
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Munich Syndrome
Nuclear Proliferation
Domino Theory
The Zionist Movement
1947 Partition Plan (of Palestine)
The Palestinian refugee problem
Land for Peace (in the Israeli-Palestinian context)
Benny Morris (A Israeli Historian)
Suez War, 1956
The Six Days War, 1967
October War (Yom Kippur), 1973
Arab Unity (Pan-Arabism)
Preemptive / Preventive War
Thucydides
The Peloponnesian Wars
The War over Epidamnus
Alcibiades
The Syracuse Expedition
The Melian Dialogue
The "Clash of Civilizations"
Collective Security
World Government
The Obsolescence of War
The rise of China debate

Terms from first and second quizzes

First move advantage
“Windows” of opportunity / vulnerability
False optimism
Security dilemma
Deterrence / Spiral models
Carrots / sticks
Preemptive / preventive strike
Offense-dominance
Disarmament
Psychological misperceptions
Attribution error
In-group-out-group theory
Militarism and war
Organization theory
National myth-making
Wahhabism / Abd al-Wahhab
Ibn Taymiyya
Sayyid Qutb
Jihad
Millennialism
Religion and war
Groupthink
Democratic peace theory
Narcissism
Feminist theories
Polarity
Ethnic conflicts

Governor Dinwiddie
Mercantilism (pre-Seven Years War)
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Otto von Bismarck
“Cult of the offensive” (pre-WWI)
First Mobilization Advantage
Pan-Slavism in the Balkan (pre-WWI)
The “Halt in Belgrade” proposition
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Black Hand
Schlieffen Plan
French “Plan 17”
Versailles treaty
German War Council 1912
Triple Entente
Rome-Berlin Axis / Tripartite Pact
The July Crisis
The German “blank check”
The “Fischer School”
The ‘War Guilt Office’
Lebensraum (“living space”)
Mein Kampf
Manstein Plan
Blitzkierg
Munich 1938
Anschluss
ABCD encirclement
Tojo
Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
Marco Polo Bridge incident
Pearl Harbor
The Oil embargo on Japan
The Battle of Britain
Operation Barbarossa
US Isolationism
First / second strike capabilities
Countervalue / counterforce
MAD
National Missile Defense
“Dirty bomb”
“Ice Nine”
“Democratization of Mass Destruction” (Martin Rees)
Biological weapons
“The Treason of the Hawks”
“Breaks on Science”

Announced on 18 May 2006  9:13  p.m. by Michal Ben-Josef-Hirsch