Back to Foreign Policy.
Class began by watching the last twenty minutes on a biography of President John. F. Kennedy. Students were prompted to take notes on those times when Kennedy's foriegn policy was based on a "carrot" approach and seperate notes when it was based on a "stick" approach.
After viewing the film there was discussion about the Kennedy's push to put an American on the moon, and how this was, in part, posturing to show technological supiority to the Soviets.
Next the class took notes on vocabulary definitions for vocab section of notebook):
Class began by watching the last twenty minutes on a biography of President John. F. Kennedy. Students were prompted to take notes on those times when Kennedy's foriegn policy was based on a "carrot" approach and seperate notes when it was based on a "stick" approach.
After viewing the film there was discussion about the Kennedy's push to put an American on the moon, and how this was, in part, posturing to show technological supiority to the Soviets.
Next the class took notes on vocabulary definitions for vocab section of notebook):
Foreign Policy are those actions (or inactions) one
government does to achieve its goals.
Isolationist-- A national policy of abstaining from political or economic
relations with other countries.
Interventionism --significant activity (economic or military) undertaken
by a state to influence something not directly under its control.
Force
(including threats): War; Threat of war; saber rattling; Cyber War
Proxy
War: getting others to fight your war e.g. Vietnam; Afghan Soviet War
Economic
Policies
that are “carrot”:
trade;
“Most Favored Nation” Trade status;
That are
stick:
tariffs; sanctions
(boycotts); embargos;
Alliances,
Treaties
Next the class read a short article on the "Monroe" doctrine. Each student then wrote a paraphrase of what the doctrine meant, and then a short paragraph describing whether or not they believed it to be good policy.
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