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Title: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1985-90 CHAPTER 33, Section 4


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AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1985-90CHAPTER 33,
Section 4
  • THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION PROBLEMS IN THIRD
    WORLD COUNTRIES

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IMPORTANT TERMS
  • MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
  • I.N.F. TREATY
  • GLASNOST
  • PERESTROIKA
  • COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
  • TIANANMEN SQUARE
  • SANDINISTA
  • CONTRAS
  • OPERATION DESERT STORM

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IMPORTANT DATES
  • 1985 MIKHAIL GORBACHEV BECOMES LEADER OF USSR
  • 1989
  • APRIL TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE
  • NOVEMBER BERLIN WALL OPENED
  • DECEMBER U.S. INVADES PANAMA
  • 1990 IRAQ INVADES KUWAIT
  • 1991
  • JANUARY OPERATION DESERT STORM
  • DECEMBER COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
    CREATED FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION

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  • Mikhail Gorbachev,
  • Soviet leader,
  • 1985-91

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OPERATION DESERT STORM
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DESERT STORM BATTLE PLAN
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CHANGE IN THE U.S.S.R.
  • 1985 MIKHAIL GORBACHEV BECOMES SOVIET LEADER
  • EFFECT?
  • GORBACHEV WANTS TO IMPROVE RELATIONSHIP W/ THE
    WEST (U.S.A.)
  • TWO BASIC IDEAS
  • GLASNOST OPENNESS IN DISCUSSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS
  • PERESTROIKA RESTRUCTURING OF THE SOVIET
    GOVERNMENT ECONOMY
  • EXAMPLE? GORBACHEV ALLOWS
  • FREE ELECTIONS
  • FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
  • LIMITED PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF LAND

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CHANGES IN THE U.S.S.R.
  • OTHER ACTIONS
  • 1987 SIGNED I.N.F. (INTERMEDIATE RANGE NUCLEAR
    FORCES) TREATY W/ U.S.
  • DID WHAT?
  • REDUCED OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS EITHER SIDE HAD
  • ALLOWED EITHER SIDE TO INSPECT THE OTHERS
    NUCLEAR STOCKPILES
  • FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION
  • NEW FREEDOMS LEAD TO MORE NATIONALISM IN
    NON-RUSSIAN SOVIET REPUBLICS
  • MANY BEGIN TO DELCARE INDPENDENCE
  • 1991
  • GORBACHEV RESIGNS AS SOVIET PRESIDENT
  • 14 NON-RUSSIAN REPUBLICS DECLARE INDEPENDENCE
  • RESULT? 1991 U.S.S.R. OFFICALLY ENDS
  • COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (C.I.S.) TAKES
    ITS PLACE

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U.S.S.R., Before 1991
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DIVISIONS IN THE COMMUNIST WORLD
  • 1988 GORBACHEV TELLS E. EUROPEAN SATELLITE
    NATIONS TO MOVE TOWARDS DEMOCRACY
  • THEY DO EXAMPLE? POLAND ESTABLISHES A
    NON-COMMUNIST, CAPITALIST NATION
  • 1989 EAST GERMANY OPENS THE BERLIN WALL
  • 1990 GERMANY RE-UNITED
  • RESULT?
  • SOVIET-DOMINATED E.EUROPE ENDS
  • THE IRON CURTAIN FALLS

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  • Distmantling of
  • The Berlin Wall

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CENTRAL AMERICA CARIBBEAN PROBLEMS
  • SEE MAP, P.999 FOR DETAILS
  • CENTRAL AMERICA CARIBBEAN Always important for
    U.S. foreign policy / security since early 20th
    Century
  • WHY?
  • Location
  • Resources Sugar, fruits, minerals, tobacco
  • EXAMPLE?
  • Location Panama Panama Canal
  • Resources Cuba Tobacco, Sugar
  • SO WHAT? U.S. Govt, Military, businesses had
    a large presence there

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C. AMERICA CARIBBEAN PROBLEMS
  • WHY WOULD THE U.S. BE CONCERNED IF ITS INFLUENCE
    IN THAT REGION WAS THREATENED?
  • HISTORY OF U.S. INTEREST IN LATIN AMERICA
  • Examples?
  • 1823 THE MONROE DOCTRINE
  • 1903 THE ROOSEVELT COROLLARY
  • EXPLAIN
  • NEW PROBLEMS
  • 1959 CASTROs TAKEOVER OF CUBA THE COLD WAR
    RIVALRY ENTERS THE W. HEMISPHERE
  • 1970s 80s DRUG TRAFFICKING FROM S. AMERICA
    USES REGION TO FUNNEL DRUGS TO U.S.

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THE COLD WAR LATIN AMERICA
  • COLD WAR RIVALRY JUMPS INTO C. SOUTH AMERICA
  • 1979 NICARAGUA CIVIL WAR ENDS COMMUNIST
    REBELS WIN
  • SANDINISTAS- NICARAGUAN COMMUNISTS AIDED BY
    SOVIETS CUBANS
  • U.S. WORRIED DOMINO THEORY TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT
    IN LATIN AMERICA
  • RESPONSE U.S. SUPPORTS ANTI-COMMUNIST GOVTs.
    REBELS IN C. AMERICA
  • EXAMPLE? CONTRAS ANTI-COMMUNIST GUERILLAS
    FIGHTING AGAINST SANDINISTAS

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SANDINISTAS ON PATROL
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  • DANIEL ORTEGA AUGUSTO SANDINO

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SANDINISTAS IN COMBAT
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  • That about
  • covers it
  • Sandinista!,
  • The Clash,
  • 1980

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U.S.-SUPPORTED CONTRAS
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C. AMERICAN PROBLEMS (contd.)
  • PANAMA DICTATOR, GEN. MANUEL NORIEGA
  • NORIEGA ALLOWS DRUG TRAFFICKERS (mostly Cocaine
    traffickers) TO USE PANAMA A TRANSIT POINT FOR
    DRUGS HEADED TO N. AMERICA
  • PROBLEM? YES
  • U.S. HAS TO REDUCE FLOW OF DRUG TO U.S.
  • SECURITY OF PANAMA CANAL A CONCERN
  • RESULT?
  • 1989 U.S. MILITARY INVADES PANAMA
  • NORIEGA CAPTURED BY U.S., TRANSPORTED TO U.S. FOR
    PROSECUTION
  • NORIEGA CONVICTED OF DRUG SMUGGLING IMPRISONED

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  • Gen. Manuel Noriega,
  • Dictator of Panama

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