Transcript Chapter 28: The Conservative Resurgence

Chapter 28: The Conservative
Resurgence
Section 4: Foreign Policy After the
Cold War
War on Drugs
• Stop illegal drugs by
going after sellers and
users.
• Latin America.
• Manuel Noriega:
Panamanian drug lord.
– 40 years in prison
(1989).
Foreign Challenges
• Tiananmen Square
China (1989): antiCommunist protests.
• South African Apartheid
Ends (1990):
Segregationist policies.
– Nelson Mandela
released from prison in
1990 (27 years).
More Foreign Challenges
• Yugoslavian Civil Wars
(1991-1999): Result of
end of Communism.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo,
Serbia, Montenegro.
• Bosnia (1992): U.S. sends
troops and aid to Muslims
and Croatians being held by
Serbs.
Persian Gulf War (1990-1991)
• Iraq invades Kuwait on
August 2, 1990.
• If successful, Iraq and
Saddam Hussein would
control 20% of the oil
produced in the world.
• U.S. built coalition of
forces to attack Iraqi
forces.
Operation Desert Storm
• January 16, 1991.
• U.S. hoped a troop
buildup would stop
Hussein.
• 5 weeks of aerial
bombardment.
• February 23, 1991:
Ground troops attack.
Operation Desert Storm
• February 28, 1991: Iraq
agrees to cease fire.
• Iraqi troop deaths:
25,000.
• U.S. troop deaths: 148.
• Iraq left Kuwait but
Saddam Hussein stayed
in power.