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Relations with Turkey
A ban on arms shipments to Turkey put in by congress took effect in February despite the White House's efforts to persuade Congress to reverse it.They argued that the Turks were being chosen unfairly, that the embargo was worsening, rather than improving. After many debates and meeting, the policy was only partially lifted in October. The Turks took over U.S and NATO bases in August in response to a House vote against numbing the total embargo. -
Camp David Accords
On September 17, 1978, Jimmy Carter signed a treaty with the Egyptian President, Anwar El Sadat. This treaty involved the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Isreal. This lead to the 1979 Egypt Isreal Peace Treaty. Later Egypt and Isreal had become each other closest allies. -
1979 Afghanistan War
The U.S worked with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in funding, training and arming Muslim mujahideen. The U.S was helping the middle east protect themselves from the Soviets. The U.S played a huge role in assisting Afghan refugees. The United States also donated $600 million in aid per year, putting us in the billions overall. This went on for many years. Finally, in 1988 the Communist Russians admitted defeat and backed out of Afghanistan. -
Carter Doctrine of 1980
This was a document that stated that the United States will use military force if needed to defend out countries ambitions. This document was a response to the Soviets invasion in Afghanistan in 1979. Carters intentions with this document was to scare off Afghanistan, which later worked. -
Evil Empire 1983
Ronald Reagan in 1983 confronted the Soviet leaders with the Introduction of the cruise missiles into several European NATO countries. Reagen and other NATO leaders were all in united together to position medium ranged missiles into Western Europe. This was done to counter earlier Soviet deployment of missiles. This lead to later conflictions with the Soviets. -
Reagan Doctrine 1985
The Doctrine was a strategy created by the United States to overwhelm the Soviet Union. This was a major foreign policy during the Cold War. The United States provided aid to noncommunist guerrillas. By doing so, its overall purpose was to make the Soviets roll back and end the Cold War. This doctrine soon faded from U.S policy as the Cold War ended. -
Constructive Engagement 1986
This was a policy from the Reagan Administration towards apartheid, (Which is a system of racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa). This engagement was a policy to try to convince South Africa to no longer control by apartheid.This act was later repealed in July of 1991 because South Africa started moving towards meeting the requirements of the act -
Iran-Contra Affair 1987
Officals secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran. This consisted of 508 American-made TOW anti-tank missiles from Isreal to Iran for a safe exchange for U.S hostages. U.S had a deal with Isreal to ship these weapons to Iran, a known enemy of the U.S, and then the Unites States would resupply Israel and receive payment from Isreal. This was all to release 7 US hostages. After months of dealing with Iran, Mehdi Hashemi was executed in 1987. Ronald Reagen lost a lot of publicity for this. -
INF of 1988
This was a treaty between The United States and the Soviet Union Socialist. Signed by Ronald Reagen and the soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, this was signed for the Elimination of their intermediate Range and Short Range Missiles. This put elimination to all nuclear and ordinary missiles. These missiles ranged up to 3,420 miles. Within a few years, all missiles were eliminated. On-site verification and inspections were issued as well. This agreement took two years before signing a treaty. -
1989 Collapse of the Berlin Wall
Once the Cold War ended across Eastern Europe, the East German government made a change with the two cities. The people were allowed to enter West Berlin. The berlin wall, a legit wall that separated the two cities, that was torn down in 1989. Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush supported this. To this day Germany is a united country and an allie of ours. -
1990 U.S invades to oust Manuel Noriega
The U.S invaded Panama (Operation Just Cause) was done in the middle of December of 1989 and January 1990. The invasion took place hoping to prevail over the Panama leader, Manuel Noriega. The invasion was ordered by President George H. W. Bush, on December 20, 1989. The reasoning for the invasion was because the leader threatened 35,000 Americans. Also President Bush was defending human rights in Panama. Lastly, Panama was a center of national drug trafficking. Manuel surrended in 1990. -
Start 1 1991
This was a treaty between the Unites States and the Soviet Union. This treaty was signed by George H. W. Bush and the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to reduce strategic nuclear weapons. START 1 continued until December 5th, 2009. -
Somalia Mission 1992
The Somalia Mission was the beginning of the United Nations. President George Bush sent 28,000 U.S troops to a United Nation mission to spread food and help the fallen Somalia. Later in 1993, Mohammed Aidid attacked and killed United Nation troops. 18 Americans were killed and 80 wounded. Soon after all U.S troops were withdrawn. -
1993 Creation of NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement is a treaty created with Canada, Mexico, and The United States of America. This three war trade agreement put a trade bloc in North America, also known as an agreement to reduce the price of terrif's on goods be imported and exported amongst the three countries. NAFTA is still in agreement to this day. -
U.S threatens Haiti
The United States threatened the Haiti dictator, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to use military force to force Aristide out of office. These orders were sent by president Bill Clinton to restore democratic rule. Just as president Clinton was sending in U.S troops into Haiti to evacuate Jean-Bertrand, Jean stepped down. The democratic government of Aristride was restored.
