Session 4: The US and the World (1796-191è)

Question 1

What is Foreign Policy ?

Answer 1

The Foreign Policy is supposed to serve the national interest of a country

That implies:
- defining that national interest
- outlining a number of objectives related to that interest
- making policies to achieve those objectives

Question 2

Objectives and policies are influenced by ?

Answer 2

Domestic and internal factors
A nation’s foreign policy may serve as a mean to spread a specific worldview or values: democracy, “Progress” human rights, free markets…

Question 3

For political scientist Bruce Jentleson, US foreign policy rests on four pillars, which are ?

Answer 3

Power
Peace
Prosperity
Principles

Question 4

What is Isolationism ?

Answer 4

Neutrality/ Realistic assesment of the american power

Question 5

What is Idealism ?

Answer 5

Idealists see cardinal features of liberal democracy, as being essential around the world.They hold that it should be the United States’ mission to spread democracy, support human rights throughout the world.

Question 6

What is realism ?

Answer 6

Tend to view the world as it is, and the serve the national interest the best they can

Question 7

What is exceptionalism ?

Answer 7

The US should be at the top of everything, the belief that a country is unsually good, excpetional, successful

Question 8

What is the Lousiana Purchase ?

Answer 8

The purchase of Lousiana happened in 1803, The US acquired the teritory from France and huge money in order to finance the European War

Question 9

The War of ?

Answer 9

The War of 1812-1814, btw Britain vs US = British had limited American trade with Europe and impressment of American Sailers

Question 10

British successes ?

Answer 10

Repulsion of U.S. invasions of Canada - 1812

Invasion of Washington, D.C.

Question 11

US successes ?

Answer 11

The Battle of New Orleans in 1815, the war’s greatest American victory which made Jackson a hero.

Question 12

What is the Adam Otis Treaty ?

Answer 12

Signed in 1819 by US and Spain, who gave Florida to the US Jackson had to protect citizens from foreign attacks. Spain accepted to sees the territory.

Question 13

What is the Monroe Doctrine ?

Answer 13

Principles aimes to deter European Powers from any intervention in the american Affairs, it would be seen as a threat to the U.S + would not intervene in european colonies /internal Affairs 1823

Question 14

Indian Removal “Trails of Tears ?

Answer 14

in 1830, removed of their land by the Americans = colonization.

Question 15

What is the Manifest Destiny ?

Answer 15

in 1945, the idea that the U.S is destiné by God to expand its domination and spread democracy and capitalisme across the North American continent

It was also written to promote the annexation of Texas, disputes with Mexico

Concepts : Natural Rights and growth, geographical prédestination, Choseness

Question 16

Annexation of the Midway Archipelago ?

Answer 16

At the end of the 19th, the territory expansion was about getting more island: mainly the midway of Archipelago in 1867.

The US went from 40 colonies in the eastern part to getting the entire land that :we know today = in the 1890, it was an economic giant. Need to develop new industries = the steel and oil flourish at the time.

Question 17

What is the Cuban Melodrama ?

Answer 17

In 1896, The cuba invasion was conduite over colonial justification. The US gov believed the the sinking of the USS Main was the word of cubans, even though it was not ? Use at a prétexte for imperialism approach

Question 18

What is the Open Door Policy ?

Answer 18

in the early of 20th, A proposa to dividing the Chinese Territories btw the european Powers, each power receiving a squat share of land to access its resources