Lesson 1: US National Interests
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
SWBAT determine US stated and hidden National Interests when looking at overseas intervention from the past: Spanish-American War through War on Terror
SWBAT identify causes of recent humanitarian crisis in places abroad and explain whether our National Interests are involved
What determines whether the US will get involved in conflicts overseas?
National Interest
Short Term/Long Term causes of conflict
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia
NATO
Somalia warlord Aidid
Humanitarian crisis
Famine
Sudan
Joseph Kony
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Why does the US intervene in some places and not in others?
When are our National Interests threatened?
Should military risk American lives to end suffering abroad?
Charts to classify interventions over time
Focus on 1990's interventions in Bosnia, Somalia
2000's intervention in Sudan, lack of intervention in Uganda
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