Foreign Policy
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Post WWII International System
Types of Governments
Lesson Plan: Introduction to the Principles of Democracy (7 clips)
Bell Ringer: Authoritarianism (3:24)
Bell Ringer: Communism and Socialism (6:13)
Bell Ringer: Joseph Labadie Anarchy Collection (6:10)
International Organizations
Bell Ringer: Prosecuting War Crimes (9:44)
Bell Ringer: National Sovereignty and the Treaty of Westphalia (3:16)
Lesson Plan: Globalization - Twentieth Century International Organizations (7 Clips)
Bell Ringer Globalization and the Interdependence of Governments (3:40)
Bell Ringer: What is Sovereignty? (2:15)
Lesson Plan: The Structure of the United Nations (8 Clips)
On this Day: The United Nations Charter (6 clips)
Lesson Plan: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (10 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Changing Dynamics of the International Cooperation (2:09)
Bell Ringer: The Kellogg-Briand Pact and the Outlawing of War (4:32)
Bell Ringer: How does NATO work? (2:47)
Bell Ringer: NATO Treaty - Article 5 (1:49)
U.S. Policy
Video Clip: Justice Department Charges Four Russians with War Crimes (4:55)
Bell Ringer: Japanese Prime Minister Kishida on U.S. Global Role (5:13)
Bell Ringer: U.S. Foreign Policy and Interventionism vs. Isolationism (6:33)
Video Clip: Globalism vs. "America First" (2:15)
Bell Ringer: U.S. Global Leadership Role (4:11)
Bell Ringer: The Role of the Secretary of State (2:18)
Bell Ringer: The Decreased Role of the State Department in Foreign Policy (3:43)
Lesson Plan: Goals of U.S. Foreign Policy (9 Clips)
Deliberation: What is the best approach to US foreign policy in the 21st century?
Lesson Plan: The Future of US Foreign Policy (5 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Tools of Foreign Policy (10 Clips)
Bell Ringer: State Department Human Rights Report (2 Clips)
Lesson Plan: U.S. Agency for Global Media (12 Clips)
Cold War
Lesson Plan: Events Leading to the Building of the Berlin Wall (5 clips)
On This Day: Fall of the Berlin Wall (5 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Major Events of the Cold War (14 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Containment and U.S. Strategy During the Cold War (4:30)
Bell Ringer: The Truman Doctrine (4:41)
On This Day: Marshall Plan (4 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Glasnost and Perestroika (2 Clips)
Video Clip: The End of the Cold War (1:39)
Economy
Lesson Plan: The Microchip Industry (11 Clips & Slides)
Bell Ringer: Japanese and American Economic Collaboration (2:48)
Bell Ringer: Principles of Market Capitalism (5:16)
Bell Ringer: What does Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Measure? (4:42)
Lesson Plan: Is GDP an Accurate Measure of our Country's Economic Health? (3 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Trade Policy: Tariffs and Free Trade (9 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Replacing NAFTA: The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) (8 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (9 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Goals and Origins of the World Bank (3:30)
Bell Ringer: International Monetary Fund (7:10)
Bell Ringer: What are Tariffs and How do They Work (3:09)
Bell Ringer: Foreign Aid (5:01)
Bell Ringer: U.S. Trade Policy (6:30)
Bell Ringer: What are Sanctions? (2 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The History of Tariffs in the United States (8 Clips)
On This Day: OPEC Oil Embargo (4 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The 2008 Financial Crisis (4:06)
On This Day: 2008 Financial Crisis (9 Clips)
Bell Ringer The Evolution from Free Market to a Mixed Economy in the United States. (4:17)
Bell Ringer Centrally Planned Economy (4:35)
Bell Ringer: Exchange Rate Imbalances (3:38)
Bell Ringer: Worker Productivity (1:54)
Health
Bell Ringer The Reagan Administration and the AIDS Crisis (5:01)
Bell Ringer The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Federal Bureaucracy (5:52)
Bell Ringer: Global Food Insecurity (5:12)
Bell Ringer The Battle to End Malaria in the US (;6:32)
Bell Ringer: History of Vaccines (6:12)
Lesson Plan Lessons Learned from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (7 Clips)
Bell Ringer Role of the World Health Organization (3:27)
Lesson Plan Role of the World Health Organization (5 clips)
Bell Ringer: Africa and COVID (4:02)
Environment
Lesson Plan: The Paris Climate Agreement and Future Global Climate Policies (7 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Cap and Trade Policies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions (3:16)
Bell Ringer: Climate Change and Skepticism (2:50)
Deliberation Should the federal government implement the Green New Deal?
Bell Ringer Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change (3:24)
Lesson plan Deliberation - What should the US policy be towards the use of fossil fuels? (6 Clips)
Lesson Plan What strategies should the US adopt to address Climate Change? (7 clips)
Human Rights
Bell Ringer: Introduction to the Rule of Law (1:17)
Bell Ringer: The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (7:09)
Deliberation: Should the U.S. grant asylum to refugees displaced from nations that have state-sponsored terrorism?
Lesson Plan: Refugees & National Security (6 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Origins of the Black Lives Matter Movement (3:05)
Lesson Plan U.S. Intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo (6 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Genocide (9 Clips)
Security Issues
War
Bell Ringer: The Concept of Total War (3:03)
Bell Ringer: Reasons for War and its Ramifications (11:05)
Bell Ringer: Foreign Policy and America's Geography (2:49)
Nuclear Threats
Bell Ringer: How North Korea Developed its Nuclear Weapons Program (1:30)
Bell Ringer: The War on Terror (4:14)
Bell Ringer: The Size of the US Nuclear Arsenal and the START Agreement (2:46)
Bell Ringer: Nuclear-Armed Nations (3:03)
Bell Ringer: The Role of U.S. Cyber Command (2:10)
Bell Ringer: Presidential Power and Nuclear Weapons (2:52)
Bell Ringer: U.S. Hostage Policy (5:05)
On This Day: Cuban Missile Crisis (6 Clips)
Terrorism
On This Day: Oklahoma City Bombing (5 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Oklahoma City Bombing (4 Clips)
On This Day: September 11, 2001 (11 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Decision to Invade Iraq (6:21)
Video Clip: The Bush Doctrine (4:29)
On This Day: Iraq War (8 Clips)
On This Day: U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act (6 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The History and Rise of ISIS (4:55)
On This Day: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster (4 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Guantanamo Bay Detainees (3:02)
Regional Concerns
Asia
Bell Ringer: United States - Korea Relations (11:36)
Bell Ringer: Kim Jong Un and Stability in North Korea (4:47)
Bell Ringer: The Future of American and Chinese Economic Power (9:42)
Bell Ringer: Ethnic Divisions in Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy (4:02)
Bell Ringer: China and 21st Century Technologies (5:39)
Middle East
Bell Ringer: The Creation of Israel (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: 1956 Suez Crisis (14:52)
Video Clip: Camp David Accords (6:09)
On This Day: Operation Desert Shield and the beginning of the Gulf War (5 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Operation Desert Storm (7:11)
Bell Ringer: The Origins of the Syrian Civil War (5:47)
Bell Ringer: Suppression of Protests in Iran (4:30)
Bell Ringer: Iran Hostage Crisis (7:19)
Lesson Plan: The Iran Hostage Crisis (8 Clips)
Video Clip: Iranian Revolution and Ayatollah Khomeini (2:12)
Video Clip: The History and Politics of the Iranian Regime (2:56)
Bell Ringer: Ethnic Divisions and the Struggle for Democracy in Iraq (4:04)
On This Day: Iran-Contra (6 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Iran-Contra Affair (7:11)