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Pinckey's Treaty
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/pickney-treaty After the American Revolution ended in 1783, the Pinckey's Treaty was formed between Washington and Spain. Thomas Pinckney, the US Minister to Spain, came to an decision with the Spanish people that gave the US access to trade in the lower Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans. This treaty established the border between Florida and Georgia at the 31st parallel. -
Monroe Doctrine
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=23 In his James Monroe;s seventh State of the Union Address, he declared that any future act of colonization in the Western Hemisphere by European Colonies would be taken as an act of agression against the United States. This also reassured the European nations by promising that the United States would not interfere in Europe either. -
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
http://www.nps.gov/cham/learn/historyculture/mexican-american-war.htm The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War on these terms:
-Mexico will recognize the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas, which they also cede to the United States.
-The US will pay $15 Million in exchange for the Mexican provinces of New Mexico and California. -
Gadsen Purchase
http://www.britannica.com/event/Gadsden-Purchase Under Franklin Pierce, the Gadsden Purchase acquired more land from Mexico that became the southern part of the Arizona and New Mexico Territories. Southerners were eager for the purchase, they planned promote slavery in the new area and hoped to build a southern transcontinental railroad that reached these territories. -
Spanish-American War Armistice Negotiation
http://www.history.com/topics/spanish-american-war The United States and Spain met in Paris to decide the terms of an end-of-war agreement. They settled that the United States got Puerto Rico, Guam, and Cuba. Afterwards, the United States immediately granted Cuba independence due to the Teller Amendment. -
Japanese Students Attending California Schools
https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1110.html After the great migration of 70,000 Japanese citizens to California, the state announced that Japanese students must attend segregated schools. This greatly angered Japan, and troubled President Roosevelt. To make up for it, Roosevlet the "Gentleman's Agreement." This agreement decided California would stop the segregation in response Japan stopping the massive waves of immigration. -
Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration act of 1924 cut the quota from the Emergency Quota Act down to two percent. The act also banned Japanese immigration, adding to the process of isolationism. -
Iron Curtain
http://www.britannica.com/event/Iron-Curtain "Iron Curtain" was the term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War. The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that showed the way Europe was looked at after World War II. The term was made popular by Winston Churchill, who used it publicly in a speech, he was referring to the actual metal barrier that cut the continent in two. -
Truman Doctrine Announcement
On March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman gave an important address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
Marshall Plan Announcememt
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The United States goals were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe prosperous again, and of course prevent the spread of communism -
Cuban Missile Crisis
http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/President John F. Kennedy announced U.S. spy planes had discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile sites had missiles capable of striking a number of big cities in the United States. Kennedy announced that he was ordering a naval “quarantine” of Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from transporting any more offensive weapons to the island and explained that the United States would not tolerate the existence of the missile sites. -
Beginning of the Iran Hostage Crisis
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=23 On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. This was due to President Jimmy Carter’s decision to let Iran’s deposed Shah to come to the United States for cancer treatment. The student revolutionaries wanted to declare a break from Iran’s past and put an end to United States interference in its affairs. -
Ukraine Crisis
Russia, Ukraine, the US and the EU announce they have agreed at talks in Geneva on steps to "de-escalate" the crisis in eastern Ukraine. Three people are killed when Ukrainian security forces fend off a raid on a base in Mariupol - the first violent deaths in the east. -
Obama Authorizes Airstrikes Against ISIS
Obama authorized airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq so as to prevent the fall of Kurdish city of Erbil and break the siege on Mount Sinjar, where thousands of Yazidis had fled to after being threatened with genocide.
