A.P.U.S. History
Review
Ms. Grimshaw
An Overview of American Foreign Policy
1776 Declaration of Independence
Self-Determination
1778 French Alliance
_________________________________________________________________1783
1783 Treaty of Paris – Peace with England
Isolationism
1803 Louisiana Purchase
Manifest Destiny
War with Tripoli Pirates
1812 War with Great Britain
1819 Purchase of Florida
1823 Monroe Doctrine
1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty – Canadian Border Defined
1845 Mexican War
54 40’ or Fight – Oregon Settlement
1853 Perry “opens” Japan
1866 Napoleon III withdraws from Mexico
1867 Purchase of Alaska
1882 Chinese immigration restricted
_________________________________________________________________1890
1898 Spanish American War
Imperialism
Acquisition of Hawaii, Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba
1899 Partition of Samoa
1900 U.S. helps put down Boxer Rebellion in China
The Big Stick
1903 Panama Canal
The Open Door
1904 Marines in Santo Domingo
Dollar Diplomacy
1914 U.S. intervention in Mexico
1915 Marines in Haiti
_________________________________________________________________1918
1917 U.S. enters World War I
World Power
1918 Wilson’s Fourteen Points
1919 Treaty of Versailles
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1921 Washington Disarmament Conference
Isolation
1930 London Naval Disarmament Conference
Good Neighborism
1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference
1933 Montevideo Conference – Nonintervention Pledge
1934 U.S. pulls out of Cuba and Haiti
_________________________________________________________________1941
1941 Lend-lease
World Power
Pearl Harbor
Cold War
1945 Yalta and Potsdam Conference
Containment
Hiroshima
Foreign Aid
V-E and V-J
Independence of Philippines
1947 Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
A.P.U.S. History
Review
Ms. Grimshaw
World Power
(continued)
1948
Berlin Blockade
Recognition of Israel
1949 NATO
1950 Korean War
1954 SEATO
Quemoy-Matsu Crisis
1956 Suez Crisis
1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco
1965 Vietnam escalation
1966 Economic Sanctions Against Rhodesia and South Africa
1969 First moon-landing
_________________________________________________________________1970
1972 Return of Okinawa to Japan
Time of Flux
Nixon visits Peking and Moscow
1973 Vietnam Truce
1975 The Fall of Saigon
1980s South American Guerilla wars
1991 Persian Gulf War
1994 NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
_________________________________________________________________2001
2001 Terrorists Acts against America
War on Terror / Humanitarianism
– NY World Trade Center & Pentagon
2003 Iraq War (Ssometimes known as the Second Persian Gulf War)
2006 Sanctions against the Sudan for the Darfur genocide, but sanctions are not to
interfere with humanitarian aid