Download - U6.LP5: U.S. Foreign Policy
Warm-Up_____ 1.House of Representatives _____ 2. Senate_____ 3. Head of State_____ 4. General Assembly_____ 5. Mayor _____ 6. Governor_____ 7. Executive Order_____ 8. Committees _____ 9. Override_____ 10. Veto
A. 100 member, 2 for each stateB. President’s blockC. 435 Members, one for each district D. State Legislative Branch E. Congress’ action in response to vetoF. The President meets with foreign leadersG. A place where bills are marked up and
rewritten. H. A city’s executive leaderI. The President ability to clarify a law J. A state’s executive leader
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– Unit 4 Review, Tuesday, May 10th
– Unit 5 Review, Thursday, May 12th
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Unit 6: Public and Foreign PolicyVocabulary Review
Structure and Organization of Congress
Affirmative Action and Equity
Environmental Policy
Immigration
Foreign PolicyStructure and Judicial Review Land Use and Zoning
Public Assistance
International Organizations
Students will analyze foreign policy concepts in order to create policy solutions to current world
events and that address national interests.
Objective
• Objective and Warm-Up• Frayer Model• Cornell Notes• Guided Practice: Foreign Policy Event• Independent Practice: Foreign Policy Events• Exit Slip
Agenda
Frayer Model
Definition: Foreign policy is a country's goals in
relation to other nations and the methods and strategies used to achieve them,
including diplomacy, military assistance, and economic aid.
Characteristics:Causes:• Trade• Political differences • National Security, Border ControlEffects:• War • Peace
ImmigrationExamples:
The 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which remove barriers
and increase trade among the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Non Examples:France creates a policy about students’ right to wear head scarves in school.
• Objective and Warm-Up• Frayer Model• Cornell Notes• Guided Practice: Foreign Policy Event• Independent Practice: Foreign Policy Events• Exit Slip
Agenda
• Countries set up economic trade policies with other countries in order to get essential goods from other countries and protect their countries’ businesses.
Economic Foreign Policy
• Key vocabulary: – Trade: to buy and sell goods – Exports: goods that are sent to other countries– Imports: goods that are brought into a country– Free Trade: An agreement to eliminate restrictions, such as tariffs and quotas
to trade between countries. – Tariff: a tax on imports and exports– Quota: a restriction on the number of specific items imported. – Embargo or Economic Sanction: To stop all trade with a country. Embargoes are
imposed primarily to coerce other nations into eliminating policies by weakening their economy.
Economic Foreign Policy
• Countries must protect its borders, citizens and freedoms in order to stay a sovereign (independent) nation.
Political / Military Foreign Policy
• Key Vocabulary – Treaties: Agreements among nations that each nation follows– Military alliances: an agreement among countries to help one
another when attacked. – NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance
that protects member nations.– United Nations: an international organization with more that
190 country members to promote peace – Diplomacy: handling foreign policy
Political / Military Foreign Policy
• Countries assist struggling countries for the sake of helping innocent people and maintaining peace and democracy in unstable countries
Social / Humanitarian Foreign Policy
• Key Vocabulary – Human rights: basic rights of all people– Famine: lack of food, mass starvation– Civil War: war within a nation
Social / Humanitarian Foreign Policy
• Foreign Policy protects our national interests for: – national security: protecting borders – economic stability: maintaining a healthy economy – promoting democracy: helping other country’s establish
democratic governments– protecting human rights: protecting innocent people from
human rights abuses – the reputation of the United States as a world leader: asserting
our position as a military and economic superpower.
Why do we have foreign policy?
• Objective and Warm-Up• Frayer Model• Cornell Notes• Guided Practice: Foreign Policy Event• Independent Practice: Foreign Policy Events• Exit Slip
Agenda
• In the 1980s, the United States, some European countries, and the United Nations banned the trade of certain goods and services to South Africa. The policy was in response to South African laws, which enforced racial segregation.
• Which of these best describes this action toward South Africa?A. the use of diplomacy to gain military strengthB. the use of free trade to build military alliancesC. the use of humanitarian aid to win political supportD. the use of economic sanctions to bring about social change
Check for Understanding
• Read the news headline below.
Which of these is a purpose of this action by the United States?A. to decrease the cost of lumberB. to protect the United States lumber industryC. to decrease United States lumber exportsD. to allow for the free trade of lumber
Check for Understanding
• Which of these is an example of an economic sanction? A. providing poor countries with humanitarian aidB. creating trade alliances with bordering countriesC. refusing to meet with a diplomatic representative of a
dictatorshipD. ending trade with a country that has a poor human
rights record
Check for Understanding
• In 1972, the United States and 143 other nations signed a treaty that banned the development, production, and storage of biological weapons.
• What is most likely the goal of this treaty?A. to give nations the right to defend themselvesB. to stop nations from acquiring military secretsC. to conduct research on the effects of biological weaponsD. to prevent the use of biological weapons by nations at war
Check for Understanding
• “… let us resolve to wage an unrelenting [continuous] battle against poverty and for shared prosperity so that no part of humanity is left behind in the global economy.….” —President Bill Clinton, at the United Nations, September 21, 1999
Which of these topics is most related to the excerpt?A. arms reductionB. climatic changesC. military deploymentD. development assistance
Check for Understanding
• Consider the following situations. Each is based on an actual conflict somewhere in the world. You will answer a number of questions for each case.
• The first questions is always: what national interests are at stake?Possibilities include:
• national security• economic stability• promoting democracy• protecting human rights• the reputation of the United States as a world leader
Foreign Policy Event
• Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v61IdnDey-8
1. What national interests are threatened? (Explain your answers)
Video on Foreign Policy
2. What questions do you have for Pakistan?
Video on Foreign Policy
3. Do you think the United States should pull troops out of Afghanistan now? Why or why not?
Video on Foreign Policy
• Complete the three foreign policy events and the questions.
• You have 20 minutes to finish. • We will go over the second event in 15 minutes.
Foreign Policy Events
• Finish your letter to the President of the United States.
• Hand it in so that we can mail the letter to him!!!
• If you get a response from the President, we will bump your grade by one whole letter.
HOMEWORK
Legislation promoting immigration would most likely causeA. a decrease in economic activityB. an increase in cultural diversityC. a decrease in population growthD. an increase in available housing
Exit Slip
Study the political cartoon below.
Which of these foreign policy concerns is most likely addressed by the actions in this cartoon?A. supporting democratic reforms in other countriesB. promoting environmental protection in developing nationsC. providing humanitarian aid during crisis situationsD. protecting residents from possible security threats
Exit Slip