Goal: Keep FoPo Submerged until Domestic Problems are solved.◦ Taxes, Health Care, Welfare Reform

Who is Enemy #1?◦ Answer-No one… “New responsibilities to embrace”

Learning Curve-Tony Lake (NSA) and Madeline Albright (State)

A. Russia-START II Signed◦ Limits Nuclear Weapons US (3500) & USSR (2997)◦ Removal of all MIRV’s by 2003

B. NAFTA-North American Free Trade Agreement◦ Lowered/Eliminated tariffs and barriers to trade between US,

Canada, & Mexico◦ Created the world’s largest free trading bloc

◦ What are the Pros and Cons to this major agreement?

C. Oslo Accords (September 13, 1993)◦ Israel-Yitzhak Rabin◦ Egypt (PLO)-Yasir Arafat◦ Agreement that allows for Palestinian Self-Rule in

Gaza and West Bank

D. Middle East Treaties◦ Israel/Jordan-October 26, 1994 US Forgave $1 Billion in Debt and US agreed to sell

high-tech weapons to King Hussein◦ Wye Memorandum-October 23, 1998 Israel will withdraw troops from the West Bank

Operation Uphold Democracy◦ Sept 95-US orders

Cedras to step down◦ Jean Bertrand Aristide

returned to power◦ 2nd occupation of

Haiti in 20th Century

October 21, 1994 Carter helped w/ negotiations NK agreed to freeze/dismantle

nuclear bombs-take 10 years NK gets oil & $4 Billion◦ Would build light-water reactors

that make it more difficult to construct atomic bombs

Pyongyang-open to UN inspections

Pros-defused a big threat to nuclear war…

Cons-it was a bribe, paper tiger???

July 11, 1995-Formal recognition of Vietnam◦ Issue was POW’s, still 2265

missing (H. W. Bush) Clinton lifted 19 year

embargo on trade (February 3, 1994)◦ Pepsi, GE, Nike, Mobil all

moved in

Former Yugoslavia Problem-”Ethnic

Cleansing” Serbian President-

Slobodan Milosevic◦ Agreement-stop ethnic

cleansing and allow Bosnians, Croats, Serbs-to live together◦ 60,000 NATO Force 20,000 US would help

w/reconstruction

Northern Ireland April 10, 1998 Ends Civil War in

Ireland◦ IRA & Sinn Fein

Ireland renounces all claims on N.I.