10th American History Unit III- U.S. Foreign Policy World War II - today

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10th American HistoryUnit III- U.S. Foreign
PolicyWorld War II - today

• Nixon-Bush 5

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Reading Quiz

• 1. Who was Desmond Tutu?
• 2. What was the INF treaty?
• 3. Who was Deng Xiaoping?
• 4. What is apartheid?
• 5. Who is Nelson Mandela?
• 6. What was the INF Treaty?
• 7. Who was Gorbachev?
• 8. What did the Soviets do in Feb. of 1989?

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China and Reagan

• Mao Zedong is dead.
• Deng Xiaoping is new leader.
• Moved China away from Marxist-Leninism to free
  enterprise.
• Contracts and trade with U.S. increases.

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Central America and Reagan

• Military leaders losing- Argentina, Brazil and
  others.
• Various problems
• Exploding populations
• Troubled economies
• Large foreign debts were not being paid and
  treatened worlds banking system.

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South Africa and Reagan

• Apartheid
• small white minority controlling and exploiting
  black majority.
• apart-hood but really means racism.
• World Isolated and ostracised South Africa
• Economic sanctions by U.S. and pressure world
• Bishop Desmond Tutu
• Apartheid ended- 1990
• Nelson Mandela freed from prison.
• Becomes 1st black president.

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South Africa and Reagan
250 min.
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Soviets in Afghanistan- (The Soviets Vietnam)

• Began in 1979- 9 years
• Soviet troops support communist government.
  Tried to remove civilian population from
  countryside who were helping the rebels.
  Millions dead, homeless or starving.
• Afghanistan's resistance movement, the Mujahidin
  (holy warriors). Waged a local guerilla war
• 4,000 bases- with Commanders and 300 or more men.
• international arms market and foreign military
  support.
• 5,000,000 refuges from Afghanistan
• Olympic boycott and economic sanctions.
• April 14, 1988 Soviets admit the cost too great
  (15,000 troops and billions of dollars) and
  agreed to remove their troops.

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Soviets in Afghanistan- (The Soviets Vietnam)
314 min.
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Reducing Nuclear Arms- INF

• February 1987- Gorbachev offered to sign an
  agreement eliminating both Soviet and U.S medium
  range missiles.
• Tough Verification procedures would allow each
  country to station representatives outside the
  other countries plants.
• December 1987- Gorbachev and Reagan signed the
  new Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
• removed all missiles with ranges of 300-3400
  miles from Eastern and Western Europe.
• All 2611 missiles would be destroyed- 859 US and
  1752 Soviet.
• Did not insure peace, both nations still had
  enough long range and nuclear missile to destroy
  each other.
• Some believed the world was less safe and perhaps
  a step away from self-destruction.

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Reducing Nuclear Arms- INF
318 min.