Foreign Policy Opening PPT

Foreign Policy schools

Doctrine

Monroe Doctrine

Roosevelt Corollary

Roosevelt Corollary PPT

McKinley’s Open Door policy

Roosevelt Corollary — what it is and event that precipitated it

Dollar Diplomacy was President Taft’s policy of building strong economic ties to Latin America

Banana Republics

Span-Am War PPT

Yellow Journalism – Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers

USS Maine Ship that explodes off the coast of Cuba in Havana harbor and helps contribute to the start of the Spanish-American War

Span-Am War — Where/Year -to aid Cuba in its fight for independence
-The USA had expanded from coast to coast and now wanted to expand outside those borders and form an empire like the UK, France, and Spain had.

Philippine-American War — When, Beveridge-Hoar Debate issues armed conflict between the Philippines and the United States from 1899-1902. It was a continuation of the Philippine struggle for independence. The Philippines declared war on the US and it became a savage conflict with guerilla warfare. Villages were destroyed, civilians were murdered, and prisoners were tortured. The war ended when Aguinaldo surrendered in 1902.

WWI/WWI PPT
Dates — Beginning of hostilities, Russian Revolution, End WW1 (1914-1918)

Paris Peace dissolved the Spanish empire
-Cuba became an American protectorate
-gave the island of Guam

Wilson — League of Nations, 14 Points, Point 5 was Woodrow Wilson’s peace plan to end WWI. It calls for free trade; an end to secret pacts between nations; freedom of the seas; arms reduction; and the creation of a world organization called the League of Nations

Zimmerman Telegram 2) Allegedly, the Germans were trying to cut a deal with Mexico to join them in a war against the U.S. (AKA The Zimmerman Telegram)

Lusitania Germans announced that the submarines would sink without warning any ship in the waters around Britain

Selective Service draft

Raising Revenue taxes war bonds

War Boards

Dissent suppression

WWII

 

ExO 8802, 9066
Dates — Beginning/End (Europe and Pacific), D-Day, atomic weapons deployed
Domestic Impacts (Brinkley Reading 754-762)
Korematsu v. US
Pearl Harbor
Blitzkrieg
Atlantic Charter
Civil Liberties Act 1988
Debate over decision to use atomic weapons

Cold War

Dates — Beginning/End (Truman Doctrine 1947, USSR dissolves 1991)

Proxy War

Berlin Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

Iron Curtain a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

Warsaw Pact treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain

NATO an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security

Truman Doctrine — main message, President Truman’s policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology

Greece/Turkey Issue

Marshall Plan A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe

Containment

Domino Theory the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control

NSC 68

Korean War

Space Race a competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union

Berlin Wall a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West

Nuclear Arms Race the competiton between the US and Soviet Union to have superior weaponry and technology

Cuban Missile Crisis Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter’s placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.

Domestic Issues

Brinkley 795-800 (HUAC, Alger Hiss, Federal Loyalty, McCarthyism)
Brinkley 821-823 (Decline of McCarthyism)
Brinkley 807-812 (Consumerism and Suburbia)

Vietnam War

Gulf of Tonkin 1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam

My Lai a massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers during the Vietnam War

Kent State Protests to the war that lead to National Guard being called in and shot students because they burned the ROTC building

Tet Offensive A massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities in early 1968.

Quagmire

War at Home

1975: Vietnamization, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia