AS.190.209 Study Guide - Final Guide: Reinhard Heydrich, Antisemitism, David Wyman
26 Dec 2017
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Themes for midterm across time periods: 1. War resulting even when participants do not war: 1. Roosevelt did not want a full embargo on oil but it happened anyway (driven by. Japan miscalculated in the reaction of pearl harbor they thought us would react differently: 2. Inevitability of war: sagan says driven by necessity this is a theme across time, wwi and peloponessian war and world war i inevitability of war driven by necessity, 3. War resulting even though parties do not want war initially: theme of parties not wanting war but war happens anyway (across time period) Initially, us wanted to avoid war with japan and japan wanted to avoid war with us, Irrationality and deterrence failure: question of whether or not we should use the japanese actions as irrational: deterance: when you convince something not to do something that they can do. It is not defense where you make their actions ineffective.
