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Foreign Policy Flashcards

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Revolutionary War

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Washington wants to remain neutral- British and French War

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Treaty of Paris

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No Navy
Attacking trade ships
Ohio Valley

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Alien and Sedition Act

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Get rid of the French
Couldn’t say anything negative about the federalists.

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Isolationism

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Washington
Doesn’t get into WWI and WWII for 3 years.

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Monroe Doctrine

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Don’t want people to move to the Western Hemisphere

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Manifest Destiny

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Explore and utilize everything from Atlantic to Pacific

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Seward’s Folly

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Bought Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million.

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Reasons for Imperialism

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Trade
Money
Ethnocentrism

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Mexican War

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Polk picks up South Western part of the states

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Open Door Policy

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Want open door trading with China

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Ethnocentrism

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Spreading culture and religion to other cultures

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Spanish American War

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Got involved when U.S.S Main blew up
Against Spain

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Territories gained from Spanish American War

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Guam
American Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico

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U.S.S. Maine

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Sunk in the Havana Harbor
Involved the U.S in the Spanish American War

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Causes of WWI

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U.S. Practicing isolationism
Zimmerman Cable
Imperialism
Nationalism
Military
Alliances

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Cause of WWII

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Treaty of WWI
Nationalism
Appeasement

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Truman Doctrine

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Containment of Communism

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Cold War

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Fighting a war, but not fighting a war.
Don’t upset the Russians.

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Berlin Wall

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East and West Berlin
Issue for Kennedy

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Korean War

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North Korea V. South Korea
38 Parallel- Demilitarized Zone

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5 Countries with Veto Power

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U.S
Russia
France
China
Great Britain

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Bay of Pigs

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Eisenhower put into play, but fell into Kennedy’s lap and went bad on him.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Missiles in Cuba
U.S. Promised not to attack Cuba.

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Why did the U.S.S.R fail

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Economy
Communism
War

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Perestroika

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Reconstruction of economy

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Glasnost

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Removed social and political restrictions

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Iraq 1991

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Started because Iraq attacked Kuwait- we went to save Kuwait

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Iraq 2003

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Thought there were weapons of mass destruction.

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