What values and ideas shaped key American foreign policy decisions in this period?
What will be an ideal response?
Bush attacked Panama to overthrow the government and ensure the Panama Canal would stay open. He worked to gain international support for military action to rescue Kuwait. Bush announced that the United States would build a "new world order," which he defined as playing an active global peacekeeping role dedicated to spreading democracy and prosperity. Clinton signed the NAFTA treaty in an effort to support American business through free trade. The 9/11 attacks redirected U.S. foreign policy toward eliminating al-Qaeda and preventing terrorism. George W. Bush repudiated the Kyoto treaty because he thought compliance would harm U.S. businesses. American responses to humanitarian tragedies in Rwanda and Yugoslavia were hesitant because of worries about repeating past failures in Vietnam and Somalia. The U.S. retaliated against al-Qaeda in response to attacks on U.S. embassies.
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A) general strike B) female suffrage C) Russification D) Rome Rule
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a. individual jati were locked into an unchanging hierarchy in relation to other jatis. b. individuals within a jati regularly raised their social status by growing wealthy enough to join other jatis. c. an individual jati could raise its standing in relation to other jatis in the local hierarchy by acquiring land or wealth. d. no individual could be expelled from his or her jati.
During the first half of the nineteenth century newspapers were generally
A. founded by national political parties. B. private for-profit business ventures. C. information arms of state governments. D. published by the federal government.
The Dred Scott decision held that __________
A) blacks, whether slave or free, were not citizens and could not sue in a court of law
B) slaves were citizens but could not sue in a court of law
C) only free blacks had legal rights
D) the Kansas-Nebraska Act was unconstitutional