American Conflicts Post Vietnam

Conflict stems from…

  1. Fear of communism... Cold War foreign policy
  2. Support of Israel … Islamic terrorism
  3. War on drug trafficking
  4. Responses to ethnic cleansing
  5. Protecting US interests
  6. Combinations of these five reasons

Are we the world’s police force and should we be? (your opinion) ______

Islamic Attacks

  1. 1972 – Munich Olympic Games – What happened? (online) ______
  2. 1979-1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis (pp 803-804)
  3. Who was the US President? ______
  4. What happened? ______
  5. What was the origin of US- Iranian tensions post WWII? ______
  6. After the Shah of Iran is overthrown, who takes over? ______
  7. What does he nickname the US? ______
  8. 1983 – Lebanon (p 806)
  9. Why did Israel invade Lebanon? ______
  10. What did this do to the Lebanese government? ______
  11. How did the US respond? ______

d.  What happened to the Marines in Beirut causing a withdrawal? ______

Cold War Manuevering

1.  What was Operation Urgent Fury? (internet) ______

2.  Who is Maurice Bishop and how did he come to power? ______

3.  Why did the United States care about Grenada? ______

Protecting US interests (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-15853540)

1.  Who was Manuel Noriega and what was his history with the United States? ______

2.  Why did the United States send troops to Panama in 1989? (p814) ______

3.  Why did the United States want to depose and capture Manuel Noriega? ______

4.  Where does he find refuge? ______

5.  What ultimately happens to him? ______

Persian Gulf War (p815-817)

1.  Who was the dictator in Iraq? ______

2.  What group of people wanted sovereignty to create an independent state? ______

a.  To prevent this, he dropped chemical weapons on these people.

3.  What oil rich nation did Hussein invade in 1990? ______

4.  It appeared that he would next go after what nation? ______

5.  These nations appealed to the US to intervene, which the US and other coalition forces agreed to.

a.  American air attacks smashed Iraq.

b.  In February, America launched Operation ______. Where US and coalition forces retook Kuwait destroying the Iraqi army.

c.  To prevent an invasion of Iraq, Hussein agreed to …

i.  ______

ii. ______

iii.  ______

d.  Why were people critical of George H.W.Bush regarding this conflict? ______

Peacekeeping

Serbia (p854)

1.  Who was Slobodan Milosevic? ______

2.  What was he doing that got the international community upset? ______

3.  What province did Milosevic invade that NATO forces will remove him from? ______

4.  What happens to Milosevic? ______

9/11 (p857-858)

1.  What person and what group orchestrated the 9/11 attacks? ______

2.  What happened to the four hijacked planes? ______

3.  How many Americans died? ______

Afghanistan and Iraq (p858-862)(864-868)(876-879)

1.  George Bush declared a “War on ______”

2.  Why did the US invade Afghanistan? ______

3.  What group of people who controlled Afghanistan were protecting Bin Laden? ______

4.  Why did the US attack Iraq in 2003? ______

5.  What was the result of the invasion of Iraq with regard to the Iraqi government? ______

6.  What was the controversy behind Abu Ghraib? ______

7.  What trouble did Iraqis have in organizing their new democracy, post Hussein? ______

8.  What happened to Hussein? ______

9.  Why was support for the war in Iraq disappearing? ______

10.  Were politicians who voted for the appropriations to fund the conflict doing so for political popularity and withdrawing their support when it became unpopular for the same reason? ______

11.  What was the Surge? ______

12.  Who is Hamid Karzai? ______

13.  What happened to Bin laden? ______