Foreign+Policy

media type="custom" key="3799975" media type="custom" key="3797169" Foreign policies during the 1990's: On February 26, 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed. It was a planned terrorist attack with other American landmarks planned for attack as well. Another policy was Desert Storm. On August 7,1990, U.S. forces were deployed to keep Saudi Arabia from being invaded. Throughout the 1990's, the United States, South Korea, Russia, China, and Japan tried to get Pyongyang to give up the nation's nuclear weapons. North Korea quit the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty because there were suspicions that nuclear weapons were being developed within the country. However, North Korea launched a multistage missile over Japan into the Pacific Ocean. After that event, former Defense Secretary William Perry visited North Korea to deliver a U.S. disarmament proposal; North Korea pledged to freeze their testing.
 * World Trade Center Bombing
 * Desert Storm
 * Korean Nuclear Development
 * NAFTA
 * "Black Hawk Down"



The North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, had begun on January 1, 1994 and was made to remove most barriers to trade and investment among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Most tariffs between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada were eliminated through NAFTA. "Black Hawk Down" occurred during the Battle of Mogadishu which was the climax to the Somalia intervention that began in 1992. During the Battle of Mogadishu, the peace was disturbed by clan violence due to the Habr Gidr clan and its leader, Mohamed Farrah Aidid. U.S. Delta Force members were to raid residences and bases and rid them of the Habr Gidr clan. This objective was achieved with few casualties for the U.S.