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| The 1941 Roosevelt-Churchill agreement on peace aims and basis of UN |
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| Not supporting a declared national interest with sufficient power |
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| U.S. policy of blocking expansion of Soviet power, framed by Kennan in 1947 |
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| Powers of the British government |
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| Able to prevail without excessive force or cost |
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| U.S. interests extending everywhere |
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| Spreading nation’s power over other lands |
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| U.S. avoidance of overseas involvement |
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| Joint Congressional Resolution |
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| Passed by both houses, it has force of law; can allow president to go to war |
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| Doctrine of medieval Catholic philosophers that war under certain conditions can be moral |
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| Slogan calling for a U.S. continental republic |
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| The 1947 call for massive U.S. aid to war-torn Europe |
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| Senator Joseph McCarthy’s early-1950s accusations of treason in high places |
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| Can be empirically verified |
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| The memory of great events imprinted on the young people who have lived through them |
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| Cannot be empirically verified; depends on feelings |
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| The 1964 congressional permission for president to go to war in Vietnam |
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| The 1947 presidential call to aid countries under Communist threat |
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| Informal name of Communist-led South Vietnamese National Liberation Front in the 1960s |
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| Communist Vietnamese anti-French liberation movement in the 1940s and 1950s led by Ho Chi Minh |
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| Idealistic projection of U.S. power to create a peaceful world |
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