Gov 312L: The United States and the Middle East.........May 4, 2009

Final Study Sheet

Multiple choice items will be based on the following names plus any obvious authors or people in the news:

 

Nancy Pelosi.....................Elliott Abrams…….Middle East Partnership Initiative

Sabra and Shatila............Natanz..........Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri

Boland Amendment...............Soft Power.....................USS Liberty

October War...................Yom Kippur War.............. Saddam Hussein

Osama Bin Laden.......... Brent Scowcroft …..........Zbigniew Brzezinski

Geneva Accord of 2003.....Ayatollah Khomeini...... ....Osirak.

Anwar Sadat..........................Yassir Arafat...............John Foster Dulles

Nixon Doctrine..................Irangate……...............Oliver North

Carter Doctrine.............Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).........Mark Twain

elite theory....................American orientalism.......groupthink

rational actor model....bureaucratic/governmental politics model

Gamal Abdel Nasser..........preventative vs. preemptive war............Intifada

Baghdad Pact..........Richard Holbrooke ……..Dr. Condoleezza Rice

dual containment....................Desert Shield..............Desert Storm

Quartet on the Middle East......Reagan Doctrine...........Iraq Study Group Report

Dimona.....................Paul ("Jerry") Bremer...............Hamas.........Darfur

Douglas Feith...........Yitzhak Rabin……..Jonathan Jay Pollard

Washington Institute for Near East Policy......... .Hans Blix........Ahmed Chalabi

the "iron triangle".........War Powers Act…....Camp David Summit (Carter)

Straits of Tiran……............Oslo Accords......Blackwater USA

International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA)……..Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

UN General Assembly Resolution 194.......United States Information Agency (USIA)

James L. Jones, Jr.…......George Tenet..............Tony Blair........"youth bulge"

Arms Export Control Act.......Seymour M. Hersh….....POGAR (UNDP)

National Security Council.........Golan Heights…..... Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

J. William Fulbright...............Mordechai Vananu...... World Trade Organization (WTO)

Intelligence Oversight Act..........Mahmoud Abbas.....Shimon Peres

John Poindexter....................Ehud Barak……..............Colin Powell

Benjamin Netanyahu.............Truman Doctrine....................Hamas.

Agency for International Development (AID)............Madrid Conference.

Moktada Al-Sadr....Donald Rumsfeld……..Ali Khamenai......... George Mitchell

Madeleine Albright.....Tower Commission..............James A. Baker

Paul D. Wolfowitz.......General Anthony Zinni........Axis of Evil

Al Aqsa Intifada ..............................Ali Larijani ...............Hosni Mubarak

Camp David II ...... .............the "dissident triangle"..... Nouri Kamel al-Maliki