International Organizations and Conflicts

a 444-day period during which the new government of Iran after the Iranian Revolution held hostage 66 diplomats and U.S. citizens, beginning on November 4, 1979 and ending on January 20, 1981

• Bay of Pigs

• Iran Hostage Crisis

• Gulf War I

• Gulf War II

a permanent panel of fifteen judges appointed by the UN to nine-year terms to hear cases; cases argued before the court focus on disputes between nations who agree to accept its decisions

• World Court

• United Nations Court

• European Union

• Supreme Court

the federal department in the U. S. that sets and maintains foreign policies; part of the executive branch of the federal

government

• U.S. Department of Defense

• U.S. Department of Homeland Security

• U.S. Department of Foreign Policy

• U.S. State Department

a formal agreement among the governments of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to form a free trade zone in North America and eliminate taxes on the buying and selling of each other's products

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

• North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

• North American Treaty Organization (NATO)

In 1962, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs

• Cold War

• Soviet Cuban Crisis

the use of extreme fear as a means of achieving a goal

• coercion

• ambush

• terrorism

• propaganda

a military conflict in 1991 between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the U.S., also known as the Persian Gulf War

• Vietnam War

• Gulf War II

• UN Conflict

• Gulf War I

the 2003 military conflict Iraq, also called the Iraq War or "Operation Iraqi Freedom", began March 20, 2003, initiated by the U.S., the United Kingdom and other nations

• Gulf War I

• Operation Desert Storm

• Gulf War II

• Korean War

enforcing a truce between countries or groups by an international military force

• diplomacy

• humanitarian efforts

• non-governmental organization (NGO)

• peacekeeping operations

a conflict between two different nations or groups

• bilateral conflict

• national conflict

• civil war

• international conflict