Foreign Policy

The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea. Its main purpose was to stop the spread of communism. South Korea was aided by the United States. We were helping them to fight against North Korea in order to contain the spread of communism.

This was yet another war that the United States got involved in. North Vietnam wanted to overthrow the government that was set up in South Vietnam.

The U.S.S.R was allied with Cuba and decided that it would equip them with missles, just incase they needed to use them. The United States, being so close to Cuba, had a problem with missles being there. So, the United States threatened Cuba to remove the missles or the United States would invade Cuba.

Détente sought a relaxation of tensions between the superpowers, coupled with firm guarantees of mutual security.

This agreement required mutual effort from the United States and from the Soviet Union in order to limit the growth of nuclear. Both powers kept a sufficient amount of nuclear weapons in case of a surprise attack from the other.

Fifty-two Americans were held hostage in Iran for 444 days. The American Embassy in Tehran was tooken over by Islamist students and militiants. The reason why these American were being held hostage was because the United States had been holding the Shah here in America. The Islamist and militiants demanded his release. After the 444 days, the hostages were released.

This was an agreement between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The agreement called for a limitation of the weapons that each power could have.

The Soviets wanted to expand their influence over Asia. So they decided to unvade Afghanistan. The United States sent hundreds of millions of dollars worth of guns and food to Afghanistan to aid the refugees. The United Nations voted to condemn the action, and repeatedly exhorted the USSR to pull out.

Initially it was called the Strategic Defense Initiative, critics renamed it to "Star Wars". It was a plan for defense against the Soviet Union. It would create a global umbrella in space that would use computers to scan the skies. It also had high-tech devices to destroy oncoming missiles.

The Fall of Communism was also referred to as the Revolutions of 1989. It was the revolution that overthrew the communist states in various Central and Eastern Europoean countries.

Renamed Operation Desert Storm, the initial conflict was to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait. The United Nations Security Council authorized the use of "all necessary means" of force against Iraq if it did not withdraw from Kuwait. Thus, started the war.

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. They coordinate monetary, trade, immigration, and labor policies, making its members one economic unit.

A truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, NY. The United States classified this attack as an act of terrorism. There were more than 1000 fatalities. The purpose of the bombing was to destroy the base support of the North tower so that it would fall over onto the South tower, killing thousands of civilians.

The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area on Tuesday September 11, 2001.

The War against the Taliban commeneced in reaction to the attack on the World Trade Centers. The U.S. intended to remove the fundamentalist Taliban regime from power in Afghanistan.

In the 1990's the United States provided aid to North Korea in return for a promise to end their nuclear weapons program. In 2002 North Korea declared its intention to contine the program and it proved this by testing a nuclear weapon in 2006.

The United States Secretary of Defense called for a war plan review.