
Early America • George Washington and the Neutrality Proclamation • Pickney’s Treaty • Washington’s Parting Advice • Jay’s Treaty • Quasi War • XYZ Affair • Louisiana Purchase • Barbary War • War of 1812 • Monroe Doctrine
Crisis in America • Mexican American War • Slidell Mission • Mexican Cession • Gunboat Diplomacy and the Mejii Restoration
Imperialism • Hawaii • Spanish American War- Platt Amendment, Teller Amendment Teddy Roosevelt and the Roosevelt Corollary • Big Stick Diplomacy- Venezuela • Panama Canal • Great White Fleet • William Taft and Dollar Diplomacy- Nicarauga, Santo Domingo • Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy- Pancho Villa and Mexico (soft power)
WWI • Isolationism • Sinking of the Sussex, Lusitania • Sussex Ultimatum • Zimmermann Telegram • League of Nations/Treaty of Versailles
1920s • Isolationism “return to Normalcy” • Refusal to join the League of Nations • Washington Disarmament Conference • Kellog Briand Pact • Four, Five and Nine Power Treaties
1940s • Initial Isolationism • Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1937, 1939 (cash and carry) • Lend Lease Act • Atlantic Charter • Pearl Harbor • End of WWII- Tehran, Potsdam and Yalta Conferences
Post WWII/Cold War • Containment and Note X • Truman Doctrine • Marshall Plan • Radio America • Korean Conflict • NATO and UN • Eisenhower Doctrine and Suez Crisis • Kennedy and Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis (brinkmanship) • LBJ and escalation • Nixon and Vietnamization • Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan- détente