Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading…
Transcript

Actors on the World Scene

Your World

Joint Chiefs of Staff

  • Membership?
  • Purpose?
  • Ex)
  • No executive authority
  • President Obama pulling troops from Afghanistan

National Security Council

  • Membership?
  • Purpose?
  • Ex)
  • 1969-1974 President Nixon and Henry Kissinger
  • Detente
  • SALT I Treaty
  • Diplomatic pressure on Soviet Union
  • Opening of China

Central Intelligence Agency

  • Membership?
  • Purpose?
  • Ex)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • The Cold War

American Foreign policy:

A history

Cold war (LAURA)

  • US v. USSR
  • Containment
  • Diplomatic initiatives
  • NATO
  • Opening of the People's Republic of China
  • Detente
  • 1980s President Reagan
  • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
  • Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev
  • Collapse of USSR in 1991

World War I (HELLE)

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Neutrality & isolation
  • Private corporations
  • End of neutrality
  • Before NSC, CIA
  • Peace conference at Versailles
  • Wilson's Fourteen Points
  • League of Nations
  • "Wilsonianism"

Post-Cold War (HELLE)

  • economic prosperity
  • 9/11 terrorist attacks
  • War on Terrorism
  • preventive action, not just preemptive (Bush Doctrine)
  • humanitarian assistance through non-governmental organizations
  • military power not as important in foreign policy as it used to be
  • Americans got sick of war

World War 2 (SKYLER)

  • Franklin D Roosevelt
  • Neutrality & isolation
  • Lend-lease
  • End of neutrality
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Member of the Allies instead of just an "associate"
  • Marshall Plan
  • End of isolationism
  • United Nations
  • World peace
  • "Wilsonianism"

-Skyler Ray

"Oh please, Crimea river"

Ukraine

-Biggest confrontation between US and Russia since the Cold War

-Ukraines ethnic division

-Crimea finds oil

-Annexation

- Nato doesn't recognize

-Why US involvement?

Where do we come in?

  • Ukraine Aid Bill
  • Loans
  • Sanctions
  • restrictions on Russian involvement
  • reforms of the International Monetary Fund.
  • Obama's involvement
  • "diplomatic resolution to crisis"

The President

-Treaties

-Troops

-Appointments

Defense Spending

OMG SDI S"CUTE

  • Peace dividend
  • Nuclear Triad

Cons of Increased Spending:

  • Debt
  • Already ahead of the game
  • Activate peace

Pros of Increased spending:

  • Other threats
  • Priorities
  • Strength

Peace dividend is a political slogan popularized by US President George H.W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the early 1990s, purporting to describe the economic benefit of a decrease in defense spending. It is used primarily in discussions relating to the guns versus butter theory. The term was frequently used at the end of the Cold War, when many Western nations significantly cut military spending.

http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-military-spending-be-increased

National Defense &

Foreign Policy

National defense and Foreign Relations

  • What is it?

Military

Uses of the military

  • Military Action

Economy

  • Military Aid

Economic Instruments

  • Foreign Protection
  • Tariffs
  • Who is it?
  • Interdependency

0

  • EX) OPEC
  • Balance of Trade deficit
  • Consequences
  • Sanctions

Diplomacy

  • Treaties
  • Summits
  • No Chic Cocktail Parties
  • Not just your ma and pops foreign policy

Terrorism

Regional Organizations

Nongovernmental Organizations

International Organizations

Ex) Hijackers

Ex) Churches and Labor Unions

Ex) NATO

Ex) United Nations

Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi