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Bill Clinton -Foreign Policy

Bill Clinton -Foreign Policy. Clinton as a Peacemaker. Key Foreign Policy Advisers. Madeline Albright 2 nd Secretary of State. Al Gore Vice President. NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement. Created largest free trade zone Jobs Lost 127,000 (beginning) Created 2.5 million (end)

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Bill Clinton -Foreign Policy

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  1. Bill Clinton -Foreign Policy

  2. Clinton as a Peacemaker

  3. Key Foreign Policy Advisers Madeline Albright 2nd Secretary of State Al Gore Vice President

  4. NAFTANorth American Free Trade Agreement • Created largest free trade zone Jobs • Lost 127,000 (beginning) • Created 2.5 million (end) • Traded doubled between the 3 countries

  5. Oslo Accords Israel and the PLO

  6. Oslo Accords • Created Palestinian Authority (PA) • West Bank • Gaza Strip • However, violence soon resumed on a more lethal scale

  7. Treaty of Peace Israel and Jordan Normalized relations between the 2 countries US forgave a billion debt from Jordan

  8. Military Coup in Haiti (1991) Clinton failed to oust Haitian strong man Raoul Cedras

  9. Haitian Boat People

  10. Haiti (1994) Jimmy Carter Colin Powell

  11. Operation Uphold Democracy • US threatened to invade unless Cedras gives up power • US planes in the air when Cedras gives up power Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to power 1994

  12. North Korea Kim Il Sung (Died 1994)

  13. Kim Jong Il -The Dear Leader Wanted World Respect Making Nuclear Weapons

  14. North Korea –Agreed Framework(October 21, 1994) North Korea • Will freeze and dismantle nuclear bomb making capability • Inspectors permitted United States • Provided $4 billion in aid • Oil • Light-water nuclear reactors

  15. Kim Jong Il -The Dear Leader • Has $4 billion in Swiss bank accounts • Owns 8 worldwide villas • Bought 200 Mercedes S Class cars -$100,000 (1998) • Owns over 200,000 movies

  16. Vietnam Embargo lifted February 3, 1994 Recognition July 11, 1995

  17. Vietnam –Official VisitNovember 16, 2000

  18. Yugoslavia “The powder keg of Europe” • 6 republics • 5 nations • 4 languages • 3 religions • 2 alphabets • 1 political party

  19. Communist Josip Tito Died 1980 Country goes into chaos

  20. Break up of Yugoslavia Independence • Slovenia • June 25, 1991 • Croatia • June 25, 1991 • Macedonia • Sept. 8, 1991 • Bosnia-Herzegovina • April 6,1992

  21. Serbia President Slobodan Milosevic

  22. “The Butcher of the Balkans” • “Where ever there is a Serb, there is Serbia.” • Sent Serbian forces to “protect” Serbs in other areas. • Croatia (1991) • Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992)

  23. Srebrenica, Bosnia July 13 – 22, 1995 • UN safe haven • nearly 8,000 men and boys executed • Hundreds of woman raped

  24. Operation Deliberate ForceAugust 30 – September 20, 1995 • Military Action to pressure Milosevic to negotiate • First NATO military action (3,515 sorties)

  25. Dayton AccordsDecember 14, 1995 Ended the fighting in Bosnia

  26. Good Friday AgreementApril 10, 1998 • IRA agreed to the “cessation” all military action • Political compromises

  27. Russian-American Relations

  28. The Cold War: Part II? Feels Like Containment New NATO Members • Czech Republic • Hungary • Poland

  29. START II (2000) Warheads US: 3,500 Russia: 2,997

  30. Fighting Terrorism

  31. USS Cole (October 12, 2000)Adem, Yemen • 17 killed and 39 wounded

  32. Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda

  33. Clinton and Military Action

  34. Problems with Hussein and Iraq

  35. Operation Desert Strike September 3, 1996 Problem: 40,000 Iraqi troops gathered on the northern border of No Fly Zone SUCCESS: Iraqi Army withdrew from No Fly Zone Border

  36. Operation Desert Fox December 16 – 19, 1998 Problem: Hussein did not allow weapons inspectors access • SUCCESS • over 100 targets destroyed set back programs a year • FAILURE • Hussein still did not let UN weapons inspectors back into Iraq

  37. Somalia Operation Restore Hope Mohammed Farah Aidid

  38. Somalia –Operation Gothic SerpentOctober 3-4, 1993 19 killed, 84 wounded

  39. Presidential Decision Directive 25 United States is leaving the mission to the United Nations

  40. Blackhawk Down (2001)

  41. Rwanda –Hutu vs. Tutsi 800,000 killed in 89 days 1998 – Clinton makes visit, meets survivors and offers apology for not taking actions to help April – July, 1994

  42. Fighting Terrorism

  43. Operation Infinite ReachAugust 20, 1998attacks on terrorist bases Sudan Afghanistan

  44. Memorandum of Notification Clinton gave the order to the CIA to use lethal force to kill bin Laden

  45. Back to the Balkans Dayton Accords -stopped Serbian forces in Bosnia

  46. Slobodan Milosevic attacked Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo

  47. The Kosovo WarOperation Allied Force March 24 – June 10, 1999

  48. Clinton Doctrine “Genocide is in and of itself a national interest where we should act.” “. . . and if it’s within our power to stop, we will stop it.”

  49. Operation Allied Force General Wesley Clark

  50. Operation Allied Force • Over 38,000 sorties • 2 planes hit • No war deaths • All 19 NATO members had to agree to bombing targets • No ground troops

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