Foreign Policy Flashcards
Revolutionary War
Washington wants to remain neutral- British and French War
Treaty of Paris
No Navy
Attacking trade ships
Ohio Valley
Alien and Sedition Act
Get rid of the French
Couldn’t say anything negative about the federalists.
Isolationism
Washington
Doesn’t get into WWI and WWII for 3 years.
Monroe Doctrine
Don’t want people to move to the Western Hemisphere
Manifest Destiny
Explore and utilize everything from Atlantic to Pacific
Seward’s Folly
Bought Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million.
Reasons for Imperialism
Trade
Money
Ethnocentrism
Mexican War
Polk picks up South Western part of the states
Open Door Policy
Want open door trading with China
Ethnocentrism
Spreading culture and religion to other cultures
Spanish American War
Got involved when U.S.S Main blew up
Against Spain
Territories gained from Spanish American War
Guam
American Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
U.S.S. Maine
Sunk in the Havana Harbor
Involved the U.S in the Spanish American War
Causes of WWI
U.S. Practicing isolationism
Zimmerman Cable
Imperialism
Nationalism
Military
Alliances
Cause of WWII
Treaty of WWI
Nationalism
Appeasement
Truman Doctrine
Containment of Communism
Cold War
Fighting a war, but not fighting a war.
Don’t upset the Russians.
Berlin Wall
East and West Berlin
Issue for Kennedy
Korean War
North Korea V. South Korea
38 Parallel- Demilitarized Zone
5 Countries with Veto Power
U.S
Russia
France
China
Great Britain
Bay of Pigs
Eisenhower put into play, but fell into Kennedy’s lap and went bad on him.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Missiles in Cuba
U.S. Promised not to attack Cuba.
Why did the U.S.S.R fail
Economy
Communism
War
Perestroika
Reconstruction of economy
Glasnost
Removed social and political restrictions
Iraq 1991
Started because Iraq attacked Kuwait- we went to save Kuwait
Iraq 2003
Thought there were weapons of mass destruction.
