development of foreign policy Flashcards
President James Monroe announced a new foreign policy called:
Monroe Docterine
consists of the strategies and goals that guide a nation’s relations with other countries and groups in the world
Foreign Policy*
The principal goal of American foreign policy is to
preserve the security of the United States.
In 1898 the US fought in the
Spanish American War*
Aa a result of the Spanish American War, the US acquired :
Philippine Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico*
national security means
more military defence
Productive American factories and farms need in which to sell their goods.
foreign markets*
the avoidance of involvement in world affairs
isolationism*
since WW2 US foreign policy has been based on
internationalism*
the cold war was a war on _________
ideologies
With the threat of communism, the US used the ideas of
George F. Kenan
American diplomat and expert in the soviet union history
Kenan
__________ was the policy designed to keep the soviet union from expanding communism
Containment
protection of a nation’s borders and territories against invasion or control by foreign powers
national secureity
announced what later became known as the truman docterine
Harry Truman
provided badly needed economic aid for war torn europe
Marshall Plan*
cold war fears led to an
arms race
what two wars did containment bring us into
korea and vietnam*
truman saw the invasion of South Korea as act of ___________ by the soviet union
expansionism
berlin wall was torn down by
demonstrators
who invaded neighboring Kuwait threatening middle eastern oil supplies
Saddam Hussein
who sent US forces to places to maintain political order and protect humanitarian interests
Clinton
a global network of islamic terrorists whose leaders were based in afghanistan
al-Qaeda
the global war on terror would be the focus of whose administration
George W Bush