Hotline Agreement

(noun)

A system that allows direct communication between the leaders of the United States and Russia, originally designed during the Cold War.

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Examples of Hotline Agreement in the following topics:

  • The Gay Rights Movement

    • In 1982, New York City men formed the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), a volunteer organization that operated an information hotline, provided counseling and legal assistance, and raised money for people with HIV/AIDS.

  • The Camp David Accords

    • The two framework agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter.
    • The agreements and the peace treaty were both accompanied by "side-letters" of understanding between Egypt and the U.S. and Israel and the U.S.
    • The first agreement had three parts.
    • The second part dealt with Egyptian-Israeli relations, with its most notable content focused in the second agreement.
    • The second agreement outlined a basis for the peace treaty six months later, in particular deciding the future of the Sinai peninsula.

  • Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty

    • The Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements were two colonial movements created in response to British taxation.
    • Two colonial movements, the Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements, were created in response to British taxation such as the Stamp Act .
    • Nonconsumption agreements were protests organized by American colonists in 1774 in opposition to new import duties that were placed on the colonists by Charles Townshend, known as the Townshend Acts.

  • America's Growing Involvement in WWII

    • The Destroyers for Bases Agreement was an agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom made on September 2, 1940.
    • Thus, on September 2, 1940, United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull signed an agreement to transfer U.S. warships to the British Royal Navy.
    • This agreement provided Britain with more ships for its navy, and also meant that the still-neutral U.S. took over defense of Britain's bases.
    • The terms of the agreement provided that the equipment was to be used until it came time for their return or destruction.
    • Describe how the "cash and carry" policy, the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, and the Lend-Lease Act all contributed to U.S. involvement in World War II.

  • The Middle East

    • President Clinton was deeply involved in the Middle East peace process to negotiate peace agreements between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as with the Arab governments of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
    • The agreement allowed limited Palestinian self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
    • The 1993 and 1995 peace agreements between Israel and Palestine, however, did not end the conflict in the Middle East.
    • The two leaders signed yet another agreement, known as the Wye River Memorandum, which called for Israel to transfer more territory in the West Bank to the Palestinians.
    • In 1991, following the Persian Gulf War, the warring parties signed a cease-fire agreement and the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 687 requiring Iraq to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction and allow inspectors from UNSCOM to monitor the country's adherence to the agreement.

  • Foreign Policies

    • Carter and Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of the Soviet Union, reached an agreement on the treaty in 1979 despite opposition in Congress to its ratification, as many thought it weakened U.S. defenses.
    • The efforts were initially focused on a comprehensive resolution of disputes between Israel and the Arab countries and gradually evolved into a search for a bilateral agreement between Israel and Egypt.
    • The two framework agreements were signed at the White House and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter.
    • There were two 1978 Camp David agreements: A Framework for Peace in the Middle East and A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel.
    • The agreements and the peace treaty were both accompanied by "side-letters" of understanding between Egypt and the U.S. and Israel and the U.S.

  • Globalization and the U.S.

    • Out of the conference came an agreement by major governments to lay down the framework for international monetary policy, commerce, and finance, as well as the founding of several international institutions intended to facilitate economic growth by lowering trade barriers.
    • One of the earliest institutions was the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which initially led to a series of agreements to remove trade restrictions.
    • GATT's successor was the World Trade Organization (WTO), which provided a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements and a dispute resolution process.
    • Other bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, including sections of Europe's Maastricht Treaty and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), have also been signed in pursuit of the goal of reducing tariffs and barriers to trade.
    • Supranational institutions such as the European Union, the WTO, the G8 ("Group of Eight"), and the International Criminal Court serve to replace or extend national functions to facilitate international agreement.

  • The Armistice

    • The need for an armistice agreement in Korea was informed by this territorial stalemate established by July 1951, as well as the heavy destruction inflicted during the war and the increasing U.S. desire to extract itself from the conflict.
    • The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when the armistice agreement was signed.
    • The agreement restored the border between the Koreas near the 38th Parallel.
    • The armistice agreement explains exactly how many military personnel and what kind of weapons are allowed in the DMZ.
    • A map of the Demilitarized Zone, established by the 1953 armistice agreement that ended the Korean War.

  • Anti-Trust Laws

    • The Clayton Antitrust Act was a law that specified and outlined "unfair and illegal" certain business practices such as price discrimination, agreements prohibiting retailers from handling other companies' products, and agreements to control other companies.

  • Economic Retaliation and Reaction to the Townshend Acts

    • Nonimportation agreements and movements arose as a response to the Townshend Acts.
    • Boston merchants organized the first non-importation agreement, which called for merchants to suspend importation of certain British goods effective on January 1, 1769.
    • The members met at Raleigh Tavern and adopted a boycott agreement known as the "Association. "