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FOREIGN POLICY AFTER THE COLD WAR U.S. History 11
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Latin America Late 1980’s and early 90’s resulted in wave of democracy in Latin America i.e.- Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Chile However, the “war on drugs” had been going on since the Nixon administration and was not improving Latin American racketeers supplied a significant amount of the illegal drugs that were in the U.S. Implemented the “Just Say No” Campaign
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Latin America 1989- Bush sent 12,000 troops to invade Panama and arrest their dictator Manuel Noriega Convicted of several charges of drug trafficking 40 years in prison
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China 1989- Tiananmen Square Protests- Chinese students protesting for democracy in Beijing Americans hoped this would result in the fall of communism in China But troops and tanks were brought in resulting in the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of protestors Bush suspended arms sales; but remained engaged economically and diplomatically with China
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South Africa Long held system of apartheid Nelson Mandela had been imprisoned since 1962 Late 80’s anti-apartheid protests grew Many U.S. firms withdrew investments in South Africa Congress imposed sanctions Bush and Mandela met in 1990, after Mandela's release Apartheid began to fall, Mandela elected as South African President in 1994
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Ordinary Love- U2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC3ahd6Di3M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC3ahd6Di3M
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Peacekeeping After fall of USSR in 1991, Yugoslavia fell into civil war Bush chose not to send troops, avoiding another Vietnam 1992- Bush backs the UN plan to restore peace in Bosnia (a republic carved out of Yugoslavia) By then, more than 150,000 civilians had died
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Peacekeeping Operation Restore Hope- in Somalia in December 1992 U.S. Marines came to establish a cease-fire between rival warlords Wanted to deliver food to the starving people Intervention in Somalia largely received positive feedback http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=qe9xbgtige0 http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=qe9xbgtige0
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Persian Gulf War Biggest foreign policy challenge faced by Bush admin August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait 150,000 Iraqi troops quickly overran Kuwaiti forces Saddam Hussein sought to take over Kuwait’s rich oil deposits Controlling nearly 20% of the world’s oil production
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Persian Gulf War U.S. intervened to prevent Hussein from gaining more power and going after oil in Saudi Arabia Backed by the UN, formed an international coalition demanding that Iraqi troops withdraw
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Persian Gulf War America, Britain, France, Egypt, Japan, and Saudi Arabia contributed to the troop build up in Saudi Arabia by late fall of 1990 Also placed economic sanctions on Iraq Operation Desert Storm American-led attack on Iraqi forces in January 1991 5 weeks of aerial bombardment February 23- coalition troops stormed Kuwait
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Persian Gulf War Operation Desert Storm (cont.) Iraqi troops were outmatched and surrendered or fled But set fire to Kuwait’s oil rigs Iraq agreed to a cease-fire after less than 5 days of ground war Bush said, “we’ve kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all” Hussein backed off, but remained in power until 2003
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Protest songs of the 80’s/90’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ Winds of Change- Scorpions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdHbA4GlSI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdHbA4GlSI Crazy Train- Ozzy Osbourne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kcy-W1NNlU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kcy-W1NNlU Leningrad- Billy Joel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdKVX45wYeQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdKVX45wYeQ Looking for Freedom- David Hasselhoff
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