• FOREIGN POLICY NIXON-BUSH
  • QUICK NOTES
  • NIXON
  • VIETNAM
  • WANTS TO END THE WAR QUICKLY
  • “Peace with Honor”
  • VIETNAMIZATION
  • MADMAN THEORY
  • CHINA VS USSR
  • DETENTE
  • PARIS PEACE ACCORDS
  • DÉTENTE WITH CHINA
  • TRIANGULAR DIPLOMACY
  • KISSINGER’S HELP
  • DÉTENTE WITH USSR
  • ABM/SALT
  • LATIN AMERICA
  • SALVADOR ALLENDE IN CHILE
  • AUGUSTO PINOCHET
  • MIDDLE EAST
  • NIXON DOCTRINE
  • YOM KIPPUR WAR
  • 1973 OIL CRISIS
  • FORD
  • CONGRESS DENIED HIS REQUEST TO SEND MORE TROOPS TO VIETNAM
  • WAR ENDS IN APRIL 1975
  • CONTINUES DÉTENTE
  • G-7
  • MAYAGUEZ
  • CARTER
  • PANAMACANAL
  • CARTER TREATY ENDS US CONTROL IN 1999
  • CHINA
  • OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF CHINA
  • SALT II
  • KILLED IN THE SENATE
  • SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN
  • CARTER STOPS GRAIN SHIPMENT TO USSR, BOYCOTTS OLYMPICS
  • IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS
  • FAILED RESCUE ATEMPT
  • REAGAN
  • USSR
  • 3 Soviet leaders had died in a short time period causing instability in the USSR
  • Polish solidarity movement showed cracks in the iron curtain
  • TOOK HARSH LINE AGAINST THEM
  • “Evil Empire”
  • ADDED NEW MISSILES IN EUROPE
  • 1985,1986 FAILED ARMS LIMITATIONS TALKS WITH USSR
  • 1987 SUCCESS WITH GORBACHEV
  • INF Treaty
  • “TEAR DOWN THAT WALL” SPEECH
  • SDI
  • “STAR WARS”
  • MIDDLE EAST
  • REAGAN TOOK A HARD LINE AGAINST ARAB NATIONS WHO OPPOSSED ISRAEL AND THE US
  • Lebanon
  • Israel had sent troops into Lebanon
  • Reagan sends American troops as a “peace keeping force”
  • In 1983 a terrorist attacks the US Marine base
  • Over 200 marines are killed
  • Reagan removes troops but avoids large scale criticism
  • Libya
  • Marines had been killed in an attack on a German nightclub
  • Reagan believed that Libyan leader Mohammar al-Qadhafi was behind it
  • Reagan orders air strikes
  • UN declares these violation of international law
  • “Roll Back” of communism
  • Opposite of detente
  • Afghanistan
  • CIA aiding the mujahedeen
  • Grenada
  • Nicaragua
  • Sandinista government was a socialist government
  • Elected overwhelmingly by the Nicaraguan people
  • Reagan sends aids to rebels known as Contras
  • Congress outlaws aid to the Contras
  • They are labeled as a terrorist group
  • Reagan had pledged he would never negotiate with terrorists
  • Iran-Contra Scandal
  • Oliver North and others arranged to secretly sell arms to Iran
  • Iran was an enemy of the United States since the overthrow of the Shah and the hostage crisis
  • Iran was in a prolonged war with our ally Saddam Hussein and Iraq
  • The money was then secretly given to the Contras
  • The international court rules all of this is illegal
  • Reagan is deposed but claims he didn’t know
  • Many Americans felt that was worse than if he had known
  • BUSH
  • Fall of the USSR
  • START I
  • USSR dissolves in 1991
  • “NEW WORLD ORDER”
  • PANAMA
  • SENDS TROOPS IN TO OUST PRESIDENT MANUEL NORIEGA
  • NORIEGA TRIED IN US FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
  • CHINA
  • STUDENT PROTESTORS ATTACKED IN TIANANMEN SQUARE
  • BUSH CONTINUES TO GIVE THEM MFN STATUS
  • IRAQ
  • HUSSEIN INVADED KUWAIT AND THREATENED SAUDI ARABIA
  • JANUARY 1991 AN INTERNATIONAL FORCE ENTERS KUWAIT
  • “Operation Desert Storm”
  • IN APRIL A CEASE FIRE IS CREATED
  • HUSSEIN HAS TO ALLOW WEAPONS INSPECTORS IN
  • COLD WAR ENDS
  • START = STRATEGIC ARMS REDUCTION TREATY
  • CLINTON
  • ONLY REMAINING SUPERPOWER
  • RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AND CHINA REVOLVE AROUND TRADE
  • NAFTA
  • Somalia
  • ISRAEL
  • 1993 AGREEMENT FOR PALESTINIAN SELF-RULE
  • SEVERAL MORE MEETINGS BUT NO PEACE
  • BOSNIA
  • ETHNIC CLEANSING
  • US SUPPLIES AIR SUPPORT TO UN ACTIONS
  • VIOLENCE AGAINST ALBANIANS CONTINUES
  • US PARTICIPATES IN NATO BOMBINGS
  • IRAQ
  • CLINTON USES US TROOPS TO ENFORCE UN SANCTIONS
  • HAITI
  • US HELPS BRING ELECTIONS TO HAITI
  • TERRORISM
  • 1993 WORLD TRADE CENTERS ARE BOMBED
  • Assassination attempts
  • Bin Laden
  • US EMBASSY’S IN AFRICA BOMBED
  • Clinton responds with cruise missile attacks
  • USS COLE ATTACKED
  • CLINTON USES AIR STRIKES TO RESPOND
  • SOME QUESTION THE TIMING OF THE AIR STRIKES