Rollback, the Glossary
In political science, rollback is the strategy of forcing a change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime.[1]
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76 relations: Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Albania, American Indian Wars, Angola, Axis of evil, Ba'athist Iraq, Baltic states, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Blowback (intelligence), Cambodia, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Douglas Jackson, Cherokee, Cold War, Communist state, Containment, Contras, Détente, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Donald Trump, Dwight D. Eisenhower, East German uprising of 1953, Eastern Bloc, Foreign policy of the United States, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Greek Civil War, Gulf War, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Insurgency, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, James Burnham, Joe Biden, John Buchan, John Foster Dulles, Kim Philby, Korean War, Kuwait, MI6, Mujahideen, Nicaragua, NSC 162/2, Poland, Political science, Presidency of Ronald Reagan, Psychological warfare, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Reagan Doctrine, Regime change, ... Expand index (26 more) »
- Cold War policies
- Cold War terminology
- Foreign policy doctrines of the United States
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
Albania
Albania (Shqipëri or Shqipëria), officially the Republic of Albania (Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeast Europe.
American Indian Wars
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, United States of America, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America.
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
Axis of evil
The phrase "axis of evil" was first used by U.S. President George W. Bush and originally referred to Iran, Ba'athist Iraq, and North Korea.
Ba'athist Iraq
Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under the rule of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
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Baltic states
The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by the United States of America and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, clandestinely financed and directed by the U.S.
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Blowback (intelligence)
Blowback is the unintended consequences and unwanted side-effects of a covert operation.
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Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Charles Douglas Jackson
Charles Douglas (C. D.) Jackson (March 16, 1902 – September 18, 1964) was a United States government psychological warfare advisor and senior executive of Time Inc.
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Cherokee
The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Communist state
A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state in which the totality of the power belongs to a party adhering to some form of Marxism–Leninism, a branch of the communist ideology.
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Containment
Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. Rollback and Containment are cold War policies and Soviet Union–United States relations.
Contras
The Contras (from lit) were the various U.S.-backed-and-funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which had come to power in 1979 following the Nicaraguan Revolution. Rollback and Contras are history of the foreign relations of the United States.
Détente
Détente (paren) is the relaxation of strained relations, especially political ones, through verbal communication. Rollback and Détente are cold War terminology and Soviet Union–United States relations.
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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East German uprising of 1953
The East German uprising of 1953 (Volksaufstand vom 17.&thinsp) was an uprising that occurred in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 16 to 17 June 1953.
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Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
Foreign policy of the United States
The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the bureaus and offices in the United States Department of State, as mentioned in the Foreign Policy Agenda of the Department of State, are "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community".
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970.
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Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War (translit) took place from 1946 to 1949.
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Gulf War
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by the government's subordination to the Soviet Union (USSR).
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Insurgency
An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority.
Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
Iraq actively researched and later employed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from 1962 to 1991, when it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile and halted its biological and nuclear weapon programs as required by the United Nations Security Council.
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Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait began on 2 August 1990 and marked the beginning of the Gulf War.
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James Burnham
James Burnham (November 22, 1905 – July 28, 1987) was an American philosopher and political theorist.
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.
John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under president Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959.
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Kim Philby
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 191211 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a spy for the Soviet Union.
Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.
Kuwait
Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.
MI6
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.
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Mujahideen
Mujahideen, or Mujahidin (mujāhidīn), is the plural form of mujahid (strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the community (ummah).
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.
NSC 162/2
NSC 162/2 was a policy paper of the United States National Security Council approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on 30 October 1953 which defined the Cold War national security policy during the Eisenhower administration.
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Political science
Political science is the scientific study of politics.
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Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989.
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Psychological warfare
Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOp), has been known by many other names or terms, including Military Information Support Operations (MISO), Psy Ops, political warfare, "Hearts and Minds", and propaganda.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. Rollback and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty are Soviet Union–United States relations.
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Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a United States strategy implemented by the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in the late Cold War. Rollback and Reagan Doctrine are foreign policy doctrines of the United States, history of the foreign relations of the United States and Soviet Union–United States relations.
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Regime change
Regime change is the partly forcible or coercive replacement of one government regime with another.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Republics of the Soviet Union
The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics (r) were national-based administrative units of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003.
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Satellite state
A satellite state or dependent state is a country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military influence or control from another country.
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
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Soviet Army
The Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (Sovetskiye sukhoputnye voyska) was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992.
Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
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Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis or the Second Arab–Israeli War, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and as the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956.
Taliban
The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.
The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as "Heritage", is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage Foundation studies, including its Mandate for Leadership.
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Third World
The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Rollback and Third World are cold War terminology.
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States invasion of Afghanistan
Shortly after the September 11 attacks, the United States declared the war on terror and subsequently led a multinational military operation against Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
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United States invasion of Grenada
The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada, north of Venezuela at dawn on 25 October 1983.
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United States Secretary of State
The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.
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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
1952 United States presidential election
The 1952 United States presidential election was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election.
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1953 Iranian coup d'état
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953, with one of the significant objectives being to protect British oil interests in Iran. Rollback and 1953 Iranian coup d'état are history of the foreign relations of the United States.
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2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War.
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2021 Taliban offensive
The 2021 Taliban offensive was a military offensive by the Taliban insurgent group and allied militants that led to the fall of the Kabul-based Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the end of the nearly 20-year War in Afghanistan that had begun following the United States invasion of the country.
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38th parallel north
The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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See also
Cold War policies
- Containment
- Deterrence theory
- Domino theory
- Flexible response
- Lacy-Zarubin Agreement
- Linkage (policy)
- Massive retaliation
- Mutual assured destruction
- New Look (policy)
- Nuclear strategy
- Paasikivi–Kekkonen doctrine
- Reverse Course
- Rollback
- Schlesinger Doctrine
Cold War terminology
- And you are lynching Negroes
- Anti anti-communism
- Balance of terror
- Bamboo curtain
- Brinkmanship
- Captive Nations
- Cold War liberal
- Counterforce
- Culture during the Cold War
- Détente
- Deterrence theory
- Domino theory
- Duck and cover
- Finlandization
- First World
- Flexible response
- Free World
- Hollanditis
- Hypocenter
- Iron Curtain
- Korean Demilitarized Zone
- Kremlinology
- Linkage (policy)
- Long Peace
- Massive retaliation
- McCarthyism
- Missile gap
- Moscow–Washington hotline
- Mutual assured destruction
- Numbers station
- Red Purge
- Refusenik
- Rollback
- Second World
- Soviet phraseology
- Sputnik 1
- Strategic Defense Initiative
- Strategy of tension
- The Russians are coming
- Third Position
- Third World
- Three-world model
- War of ideas
- Warsaw Pact
- We will bury you
- Western Bloc
- Whataboutism
Foreign policy doctrines of the United States
- Arsenal of Democracy
- Big stick ideology
- Brinkmanship
- Bush Doctrine
- Carter Doctrine
- Clinton Doctrine
- Disposition Matrix
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- Free trade agreements of the United States
- Good Neighbor policy
- Hillary Doctrine
- Johnson Doctrine
- Kennedy Doctrine
- Kirkpatrick Doctrine
- Lodge Corollary
- Madman theory
- Monroe Doctrine
- Negroponte doctrine
- Nixon Doctrine
- Obama Doctrine
- Powell Doctrine
- Progressive realism
- Reagan Doctrine
- Rollback
- Roosevelt Corollary
- Rumsfeld Doctrine
- Schlesinger Doctrine
- Stimson Doctrine
- The Grand Chessboard
- Truman Doctrine
- United States presidential doctrines
- Washington Doctrine of Unstable Alliances
- Weinberger Doctrine
- Wolfowitz Doctrine
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollback
Also known as Rollback policy.
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