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The open door in China
In, 1899, Secretary of State John Hay announced this country's insistence on an Open Door policy in China. That doctrine promoted equal trade access for all nations, and demanded that China's independence and sovereignty over its own territory be preserved.
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The good neighbor policy
Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy, a conscious attempt to win friends to the south by reducing this nations's political and military interventions in the region. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Neighbor_policy) -
United Nation
America hoped to forge a world community in which at least most nations would agree to act together against any nation that threatened the peace. To that end, this country took the lead in creating the United Nations in 1945.
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The Truman Doctrine( the policy of containment)
The United States began to counter the aggressive actions of the Soviet Union in the early months of 1947. The Truman Doctrine soon became part of a broader American plan for dealing with the Soviet Union. From mid 1947 through the 1980s, the United States followed the policy of containment. The policy was rooted in the belief that if communism could be kept within its existing boundaries, it would collapse under the weight of its own internal weaknesses. -
The Middle East
America;s foreign policy interests in the Middle East have, for decades, been torn in two quite opposite directions: by its long standing support of Israel and by the critical importance of Arab oil. -
The Korean War
Communist North Korea( the people's democratic republic of Korea) attacked south Korea. The UN's Security council called on all UN members to help South Korea repel the invasion. -
The War in Vietnam
In 2969, President Richard Nixon began what he called the "Vietnamization" of the war. Over the next four years, the United States gradually pulled troops out of combat. Finally, the two sides reached a cease-fire agreement in early 1973, and the United States withdrew its last units. -
The Policy of détente
Presiden Richard Nixon flew to Beijing in 1972 to begin a new era in American-Chinese relations. His visit paved the way for further contacts and, finally, for formal diplomatic ties between the United States and the People's Republic of China. -
The Cold War Ends
Relations between the United States and the USSR improved remarkably after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Moscow in 1985. -
Afghanistan and Iraq
The Taliban unleashed a massive terrorist attack against the United States. In response, the U.Ss and its NATO allies toppled the Taliban regime, which had sheltered leader Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, who had carried out the attacks. United States troops remained in the country until the send of 2011. The war cost the United States some $1 trillion and more than 4,400 American lives.
