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1 Bill Clinton -Foreign Policy

2 Clinton as a Peacemaker

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

4 NAFTA North 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 Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to power 1994 US threatened to invade unless Cedras gives up power US planes in the air when Cedras gives up power

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 Visit November 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 Force August 30 – September 20, 1995 Military Action to pressure Milosevic to negotiate First NATO military action (3,515 sorties)

25 Dayton Accords December 14, 1995 Ended the fighting in Bosnia

26 Good Friday Agreement April 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 Warheads US: 3,500 Russia:2,997 START II (2000)

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 Serpent October 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 Reach August 20, 1998 attacks on terrorist bases SudanAfghanistan

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 War Operation 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

51 Operation Allied Force Dogfight –Yugoslav fighter engaged by 24 NATO fighters 99.6% of 20,000 bombs and missiles hit their targets (DOD) Hit Chinese embassy –3 killed

52 President Slobodan Milosevic Arrested April 1, 2001 Trial February 12, 2002 Died March 11, 2006 Died Again March 6, 2007

53 You Got a Friend in Pristina Dedicated Nov 2, 2009

54 It’s not so foreign, anymore!


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