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1
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Know an example of the political game of lion and fox.

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Machiavelli’s advice statement on how to govern

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Know an example of accommodation in politics

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Political behavior that seeks a compromise between competing interests and is marked by cooperation, bargaining, and balloting.

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Know when Khmer Rouge practiced the game of wipeout.

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1975 to 1978

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Know where the Solidarity Party used the game of strike against the Communist Party

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Poland

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Know how to characterize the game of lion and fox.

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Game of politics in which a state’s vital interests are at stake and must be protected using both force and craft; political strategy first articulated by Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince.

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Know the accusations of the Watergate Scandal.

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1.attempted burglary Democratic Party’s national headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, DC in June 1972, Nixon was accused of approving the break-in. 2. August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned his presidency under threat of impeachment.

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Know how to explain the use of power if it is placed on a continuum

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balance, seduce, support. for example carrot and stick

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Know the perpetrator of the game of destruction in the Soviet Union

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stalin

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Know Machiavelli’s thinking

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A prince must be able to be violent and beastly (be a lion to ward of wolves and a fox to recognize traps)

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Know an example of civil disobedience

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Boston tea party

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Know what Henry David Thoreau specifically directed his arguments for civil disobedience against.

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slavery and war

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Know what the political game of accommodation is marked by.

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cooperation, bargaining, balloting

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Know what political game Athens’s submission of Melos is.

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wipeout

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Know an example of an American terrorist group after the Civil War.

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KKK

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Know if the political games of wipeout, lion and fox, and civil disobedience are prevalent today.

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Yes, trump used the lion and the fox when he fired people who went against his policies and instead hired people who he thought were more loyal. Wipeout is Palestine, civil disobedience is people tying themselves to trees so they wont be cut down and the blm protests

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16
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Know that politics is a process.

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(1) public values are articulated, debated, and prescribed; (2) diverse political actors (individuals, interest groups, local or regional governments, and nations) cooperate and struggle for power to satisfy their vital needs, protect their fundamental interests, and advance their perceived desires; and (3) policy judgments are made and implemented

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Know the basic elements of political games.

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clashes and deadly conflicts, mild competition and pacific accommodation, or loving consent and freely given obedience.

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Know the definition of genocide

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systematic mass destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

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Know when civil disobedience is employed

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When there is an outrageous moral evil and it must be done peacefully

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Know that the worst elements of politics do exist in democracies

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war, tyranny, economic ruin, and barbarism

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Know the nature of political games.

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Deceiving and calculated

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22
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Know who illustrates the twentieth-century pattern of destruction

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HItler

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23
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Know the causes of the fluctuation in terrorist attacks

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People get radicalized by the internet

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Know the subtitle of the game of civil disobedience.

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You have to be disobedient but never violent, must be selectively aimed, it must be public

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Know Athenians view of neutral Melos.

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They didn’t like it and later tried to take it over even though Melos wanted a more peaceful justice

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26
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Know where James Madison’s famous argument on behalf of the “extensive republic” appears.

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In the federalist papers

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Know the dilemma faced by Madison as he crafted a document to replace the Articles of Confederation

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He had trouble reconciling liberty and authority in a large state

28
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Know if you can or cannot legislate morality.

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You cannot because everyone has different morals

29
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Know what the German republic that formed after World War I was known as.

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Weima republic

30
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Know the arguments advanced against the establishment of a naval blockade to prevent the Soviet Union from placing offensive missiles in Cuba.

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there were rumors of something being up in Cuba

31
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Know the founder that advocated for a strong central government and opposed federalism.

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Maddison

32
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Know the advisory body that was central to aiding President John F. Kennedy in dealing with the Cuban missile crisis.

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ExCom

33
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Know about the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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after 9/11

34
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Know the leader of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban missile crisis.

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Nikita Khrushchev

35
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Know what Madison’s theory of the extensive republic allowed for.

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How Americans should enjoy the best of both worlds of freedom and government

36
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Know Socrates answer to “Why should we obey the political community that makes claims on our allegiances?”

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Because of the contribution that the political community makes to our life, growth, and fulfillment, we are required to obey its laws.

37
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Know the definition of negative freedom.

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No restraining force such as the government.

38
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Know the city that put Socrates on trial and condemned him to death

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Athens

39
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Know the name of James Madison’s theory that helped to resolve the question of how liberty and authority could be created in a large country.

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madisonian model

40
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Know how easily humans are manipulated.

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All vulnerable humans can be manipulated

41
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know if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction

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no because if they did they wouldn’t have been raided in the first place

42
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Know the three major components of political science

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ethical empirical and choice

43
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positivism as a philosophy.

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phycological approvch that wants to legitimize scientific study of human organization through social studies

44
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Know the four basic subfields of political science.

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American government and politics, international relations, comparative politics political theory

45
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Know who argued that the quest for the “best political order” must be central to political science

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Leo strauss

46
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Know what political empiricism is concerned with.

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Political phenomena is concerned with what has been and what will be and what is

47
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Know who developed an integrated prescriptive theory concerned with the importance of making republican values central to his thinking in a large diverse country.

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James Madison

48
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Know the main focus of the ethical component of political science

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the focus of ethics within politics and how what’s right isn’t always ethical

49
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Know an early leader of the post–World War II behavioral revolution in political science.

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Philip converse

50
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Know what the prudential component of political science is concerned with

A

practical application of politics

51
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Know the largest budget items contributing to the U.S. national debt

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defense

52
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Know the post-behavioral approach to political science inspired by economics.

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Rational choice

53
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Know examples of empirical understanding.

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based on observation and experience. tracking a plant everyday as it grows

54
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Know what David Easton called the “intellectual foundation stones” of behavioralism.

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belief in regularities, commitment to verification, emphasis on qualification, knowledge of pure science, systemization, acceptance of political science

55
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Know the definition of political theory.

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fundamental questions of governance

56
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Know what the empirical component of political science investigates.

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what goes on in politics and why

57
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Know the primary concern of political scientists when examining prudential judgment.

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make politics workable and realistic

58
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Know who emphasized that there is no division between fact and value in political theory.

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John locke

59
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Know the leading producer of metals and nonmetallic minerals.

A

china

60
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Know the primary assertion of Karl Marx

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power of the ruling class comes in control of the economy

61
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Know who wrote Democracy in America.

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Alexis Tocqueville

62
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Know what the world’s population is projected to be by 2050

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9.7 billion

63
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Know the primary goal of ISIS

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solidify and expand territory

64
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know the actual basis for discrimination over most of the world

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racism

65
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Know the primary consequence of the Industrial Revolution.

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there’s a gap between the Rich the poor

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