CLINTON FOREIGN POLICY

It s a new world order The U.S. emerges as the world s superpower The Cold War is over Don t ask, don t tell

CLINTON FOREIGN POLICY For each topic do the following: In two to three sentences, SUMMARIZE what happened in each region/country DO NOT WRITE THE INFORMATION WORD FOR WORD! What letter grade would you give Clinton? How does the information relate back to the two original questions? The former Soviet Union Changes in Europe Iraq Yugoslavia Rwanda Somalia North Korea Haiti Cuba Vietnam Ireland Israel Africa Global Trade Terrorism

START TREATIES STrategic Arms Reduction Talks Goal was to reduce nuclear weapons START I Signed in 1991 between Gorbachev and Bush Agreed to reduce US nuclear capacity by 15% and Soviet capacity by 25% START II Signed in January, 1993 between Bush and Boris Yeltsin The goal was to reduce the combined US/Russian nuclear warheads to under 7,000 (2/3 cut) Congress never approved an extension to the treaty so it never went into effect.

START III Clinton and Yeltsin began negotiations in 1994. It would have reduced nuclear warheads to between 2,000 and 2,500. Because START II never happened, negotiations on START III ended.

Who has nukes? The former Soviet nuclear weapons were in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus By 2005, the last of the Soviet weapons outside of Russia were supposedly destroyed.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the former republics created the Commonwealth of Independent States. They later became 15 independent countries.

Russia had economic problems following the collapse of the Soviet Union The United States and other countries provided some financial assistance, but not enough

NATO AS OF 2006 EUROPEAN UNION AS OF 2007

Persian Gulf War UN military coalition forces Iraq out of Kuwait Saddam Hussein remains in power UN creates No Fly Zones in Iraq U.S. monitors the north, Great Britain monitors the south Clinton sends troops to protect Kuwait

Air Strikes 1993 Saddam had promoted an assassination attempt against former President Bush Saddam used military force against the Kurds Saddam was continuing to violate UN sanctions against weapons buildup Clinton retaliated with air strikes on intelligence and weapons bases Air Strikes 1998 Saddam had continued attempts to build up weapons He refused to allow UN weapons inspectors in to inspect weapons sites Four day bombing mission by British and American pilots Clinton seen as using this to distract from impeachment

U.S. participated in a NATO military operation in the mid- 1990 s

Don t help genocide in Rwanda Attempt to help in Somalia, but don t succeed

Attempt to aid with famine relief

Go in peacekeeping role following coup

Cubans attempting to flee the island Clinton upholds Bush policy of no immigration

The U.S. hadn t recognized Vietnam since the end of the war In 1997, the Clinton administration recognized Vietnam. Clinton was criticized due to his avoidance of the war. Two U.S. Senators and Vietnam veterans, John Kerry and John McCain led the delegation

Kerry and McCain concluded that there were no Prisoners of War (POW s) left in Vietnam The U.S. formally recognized Vietnam. The U.S. embassy in Hanoi was opened. Vietnam allowed for the return of refugees from the war. U.S. companies have opened factories in Vietnam.

Broker peace deal with Protestants and Catholics

Attempts to address Palestinian/Israeli issue

Doesn t help much with AIDS funding Supports removal of apartheid system in South Africa

NAFTA GATT WTO G-7 G-8 G-20

FOREIGN TERRORISM Bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 Bombing of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998 Attack on the USS Cole in 2000

The Branch Davidians were a splinter group of Seventh Day Adventists David Koresh was their leader After rumors of weapons caches, the ATF began a 51 day siege Later they attacked and burned the compound. 80 people died The government was criticized for abusing its power.

Timothy McVeigh was a Gulf War veteran supposedly upset with the government s abuse of power in the Branch Davidian standoff. His plan was to attack a federal building

On April 19, 1995 McVeigh drove a rental truck to the front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City The explosion ripped the front off the building 168 people were killed.

19 victims were children at a daycare on the second floor McVeigh was convicted and executed in 2001 A memorial now sits on the site

Much terrorist information was not shared between government agencies Much of the terrorist linkage came after the September 11, 2001 attacks

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