midterm review terms

The Midterm Exam will be held Tuesday, June 8th. It will consist of a multiple choice section of 30 questions (each worth two points) and an essay (worth forty points).


Here is a list of review terms for the multiple choice section of the exam. The eassy section will consist of a choice between two questions, both related to the themes explored in Achebe's novel A Man of the People

Atlantic Charter
Bretton Woods
Robert Oppenheimer
Security Council
"Iron Curtain"
George F. Kennan
Truman Doctrine
European Recovery Program
Guomindang (also spelled: Kuomintang)
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
NSC-68
38th Parallel
Mohammad Mosaddegh
"A Cross of Iron"
Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán
Fidel Castro
Salvador Allende
Augusto Pinochet
Dien Bien Phu
Great Leap Forward
Eisenhower's Farewell Address
Bay of Pigs
Algerian War
Ho Chi Minh
"Domino Theory"
Ngo Dinh Diem
Strategic Hamlet
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Ranch Hand
Tet Offensive
My Lai
Vietnamization
Cambodia, 1970
Alliance for Progress
Cuban Missile Crisis
Rachel Carson
Wangari Maathai
Berlin Airlift
European Coal and Steel Community
Hungarian Uprising
"Cult of Personality"
Jean Monnet
Konrad Adenauer
Sputnik
DARPA
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Charles de Gaulle
Prague Spring
Détente
Berlin Conference
Haile Selassie
Kwame Nkrumah
Jomo Kenyatta
Patrice Lumumba
Idi Amin
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mau Mau Uprising
Rhodesian Bush War
OAU
SS 20
Pershing Missiles
Afghanistan
The Reagan Doctrine
Glasnost
Perestroika
Iran-Contra
June, 1989
November, 1989
The End of History
The Clash of Civilizations
Amartya Sen