Identify and describe important United States foreign policy issues, the people involved, and the impact on the country.
Videos:
The American Superpower in the 1990s (GL)
The Start of the Reagan Era (GL)
Ronald Reagan Works on the Soviet Problem
Ronald Reagan Opens Communication With Mikhail Gorbachev (GL)
Clinton and the New World Order: Failures and Successes (GL)
The New World Order Means More Freedom and Less Stability (GL)
December 3, 1989
Reagan and the USSR (GL)
Address to the Nation on the Soviet Attack on a Korean Civilian Airliner: September 5, 1983
New Soviet Premier and Disarmament Talks (GL)
The Cold Warrior (GL)
Address to the Nation on the Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy
Address to the Nation on the Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy: March 4, 1987
Address to the Nation on Events in Lebanon and Grenada: October 27, 1983
The Wall Opens: East Germans Visit West After Three Years
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Leonid Brezhnev and the Return to a Nationalist Program
November 9, 1989
The Break Up of the Soviet Union
Presidential Legacies: Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan (GL)
Crisis Within the USSR (GL)
Relations Between the US and USSR (GL)
US Involvement in Central America (GL)
The First Gulf War: Limited Access to a Video War (GL)
The Russian Invasion of Afghanistan (GL)
The Iran Hostage Crisis (GL)
Iran: Hostage Crisis and War with Iraq (GL)
Developments in the Iran Hostage Crisis (GL)
The Presidency in Crisis (GL)
America Struggles (GL)
Soldiers in Iraq (GL)
U.S. and Iraq: Transition of Power (GL)
Debating the Invasion of Iraq (GL)
The Controversy over the War in Iraq (GL)
Conclusion: The Iraq War and the Future of Islam (GL)
The War Between Iran and Iraq (GL)
Iraq's Chemical Weapons (GL)
War on Terrorism (GL)
George W. Bush's Mission Accomplished (GL)
Operation Desert Shield (GL)
Persian Gulf War: Battles, Strategies, and the Reaction at Home (GL)
9/11 Attacks: Who's Responsible? (GL)
No Remorse (GL)
Feelings on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border (GL)
Clear for Takeoff (GL)
Documenting and Preserving Evidence from the September 11th Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center (GL)
War on Terrorism (GL)
Bin Laden's Connection to Afghanistan (GL)
When the Taliban Ruled Afghanistan (GL)
Challenges for Our Century (GL)
Violence in the Middle East and the Camp David Accords (GL)
The Assassination of Anwar Sadat (GL)
Background to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (GL)
Quiryat Mal'aki, Israel (GL)
Land for Peace and People on the Land (GL)
Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Rise of the PLO (GL)
Solidarity Union in Poland
Lech Walesa and Poland (GL)
Solidarity Uprisings in Poland (GL)
Address to the Nation About the Situation in Poland; December 23, 1981 (GL)
Barack Obama: Moving beyond Race (GL)
Opening Remarks: Change Has Come to America (President Obama/GL)
This Is Our Moment, This Is Our Time (President Obama/GL)
Images:
Soldiers in the Gulf War.
An Afghan refugee in Pakistan, 1980.
M-8 armored cars near Teheran.
A Man Walks in the Street After World Trade Center Disaster
At the signing of the Camp David Accords.
Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin.
Barack Obama, Forty-Fourth President of the United States
Articles:
Third World
Iraq
Persian Gulf Wars
Kurdistan
Kirkuk
Arabia
Kuwait (country)
Syria
Hussein, Saddam
Turkey (country)
TIKRIT
Baghdad or Bagdad
Middle East
Iran
Obama, Barack
Audio:
George H. W. Bush: Address to the Nation on the Invasion of Iraq (January 16, 1991)
George W. Bush: 9/11/01 Address to the Nation (September 11, 2001)
Writing Prompt:
Women in the Military
Discovery Education Resources
Videos:
Towers Collapse and Ground Zero
Quest for Survivors
Design of the Memorial
Family Members Reflect on Memorial
Recovery and Clean Up Efforts End Eight Months Later
Smithsonian Institution: Presidential Inauguration
The PBS NewsHour: CIA Chief Panetta: Obama Made 'Gutsy' Decision on Bin Laden Raid
Writing Prompts:
September 11 [Expository][ELA,SS][9-12]
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Concepts
Retaliatory Air Strikes
Military Invasion
Nuclear Arms Proliferation
Oil Diplomacy
Weapons of Mass Destruction
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
Afghanistan
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Iran Hostage Crisis
Election of Ronald Reagan
Gorbachev
End of the Cold War
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Solidarity (Poland)
Collapse of the USSR
Iraq
Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Coalition of the Willing
Gulf War I
George H.W. Bush
No Fly Zone
Saddam Hussein
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
9/11 Attack
Taliban
Osama bin Laden
American Invasion of Afghanistan
Gulf War II
George W. Bush
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Foreign Policy Issues
Diplomacy
Military Intervention
Proliferation
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Identify foreign policy issues (e.g. containment of Communism, protecting American geopolitical interests, protecting American allies around the world, protecting strategic assets around the world, maintaining American military superiority, nuclear proliferation, weapons of mass destruction, biological warfare).
Describe the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union on the conduct of international affairs in the 1990’s.
Analyze reasons for continuing unrest in the Middle East (Arab-Israeli conflicts, Civil War in the Lebanon, Israeli policy of preventive and retaliatory military strikes).
Identify reasons for Arab and Palestinian anti-Americanism based on perceptions of American policy in the region.
Evaluate the role that national security issues play in American politics and American elections.
Evaluate the American government’s treatment of Arab Americans following the 9/11 attack.
Describe the international reaction to the United States “detention” of suspected Islamic terrorists without trial in Cuba.
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