History 1BB3: America and the World: The Twentieth Century

Dr. Stephen M. Streeter

McMaster University, Winter 2002

 

Terrorism

slides (hmtl)
slides (pdf)

I. New World Order

President George H. W. Bush (1989-1993)
New World Order speech
U.S. invasion of Panama (1989)
Persian Gulf War

Saddam Hussein
Iraq Invades Kuwait (August 1990)
United Nations Security Council Resolution 660
Operation Desert Storm

consequences of the Gulf War:

casualities
economic damage
U.S. war crimes
Gulf War syndrome

II. "Humanitarian" Interventions

United Nations Charter
Universal Declaration of Rights
humanitarian intervention
Northeast Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) attack on Kosovo (1999)

III. Terrorism

U.S. Army's definition of terrorism
Noam Chomsky, "The New War Against Terror"

Return to Class Schedule