Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. The claim that American involvement in Vietnam was “imprudent but moral” assesses the morality of U.S. policy in terms of American motives.

2. The end of the Cold War can be explained solely by the argument that the Soviet Union experienced “imperial overstretch.”

3. Waltz argues that bipolarity is a particularly unstable type of system because the predominance of satellite countries and allies complicates power calculations.

4. The American refusal to allow a Soviet occupation zone in Japan contributed to the birth of the Cold War.

5. The Soviet Union felt that the United Nations was too reliant on the U.S. and therefore could not be trusted.


1. T
2. F
3. F
4. T
5. T

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