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THE U.S. WAR ON TERRORISM SINCE THE COLD WAR PRESENTATION BY PROFESSOR DAVID H. BENNETT WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2012.

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1 THE U.S. WAR ON TERRORISM SINCE THE COLD WAR PRESENTATION BY PROFESSOR DAVID H. BENNETT WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2012

2 THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL November 1989

3 RONALD REAGAN AND THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) “STAR WARS Ronald Reagan U.S. President 1981-89

4 MIKHAIL GORBACHEV General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991

5 SOVIET LEADERS Leonid Brezhnev 1964-1982 Yuri Andropov 1982-1984 Konstantin Chernenko 1984-1985

6 AFTER THE FALL OF THE U.S.S.R. U.S.S.R., 1917-1991

7 OPERATION DESERT STORM The First Iraq War, 1990-91

8 BILL CLINTON INAUGURATION, 1993 Focus on economic distress and a domestic agenda

9 CLINTON DOMESTIC ADVISERS Robert Reich Secretary of Labor, 1993-1996 Robert Rubin Secretary of Treasury, 1995-1999 Larry Summers Secretary of Treasury, 1999-2001

10 ALAN GREENSPAN Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1987-2006

11 NEWT GINGRICH Speaker of the House, 1995-1999

12 SOMALIA General Aidid 1934-1996 Battle of Mogadishu, October 1993 From the movie, “Black Hawk Down”

13 RWANDAN GENOCIDE, 1994 Lt Gen Romeo Dellaire Force Commander of UNAMIR, 1993-94

14 BOSNIA WAR, 1992-1995 Siege of Sarajevo Srebrenica Massacre, July 1995

15 NATO AIRSTRIKES IN BOSNIA, AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1995

16 DAYTON PEACE ACCORDS, NOVEMBER 1995 Asst. Sec. of State Richard Holbrooke

17 U.S. AIR ATTACKS ON IRAQ, DECEMBER 1998

18 TERRORIST ATTACKS BEFORE 9/11 U.S. Embassy in Kenya, August 1998 U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, October 2000 Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, June, 1996 World Trade Center in New York, February 1993

19 MISSILE STRIKES IN SUDAN AND AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 1998 Wag the Dog?

20 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Florida recount Bush v. Gore, 2000 Supreme Court case

21 PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, 2001-2009

22 9/11

23 OSAMA BIN LADEN

24 A “WAR ON TERROR”?: A BRIEF REVIEW OF TERRORISM

25 ZEALOTS Great Jewish Revolt, 66-70

26 FRENCH REVOLUTION Jacobin Reign of Terror, 1793-94 Maximilien Robespierre, 1758-1794

27 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were shot dead in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian nationalist, Gravilo Princip. This event was the trigger to the start of World War.

28 POST WWII ANTI-COLONIAL CAMPAIGNS Viet Minh in French Indochina National Liberation Front (FLN) in Algeria

29 MODERN RELIGIOUS TERRORISM Bali, 2002 Madrid, 2004 Mumbai, 2006 Beslan, 2004

30 PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY Richard Perle William Kristol

31 NEOCONS IN DEFENSE DEPARTMENT AND STATE John Bolton Douglas Feith Paul Wolfowitz Donald Rumsfeld

32 U.S. ATTACKS IN AFGHANISTAN Tora Bora

33 WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION Downing Street Memo, July 23, 2002 Colin Powell speech at U.N., Feb. 5, 2003 Iraq Survey Group and Duelfer Report, 2003-04

34 THE IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011

35 THE FATE OF THE “WAR ON TERROR”


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