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XYZ Affair
John Adams
was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War. -
War of 1812
James Madison
a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its American Indian allies -
Adams-Onis Treaty
James Monroe -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
James K. Polk -
Gadsden Purchase
Franklin Pierce -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chester Arthur -
Hawaiian Annexation
William Mckinley -
Platt Amendment
Franklin Roosevelt
an amendment to a U.S. army appropriations bill, established the terms under which the United States would end its military occupation of Cuba -
Zimmermann Telegram
Woodrow Wilson
was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire offering a military alliance with Mexico, in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. -
Washington Naval Conference
Warren G. Harding -
Smoot Hawley Tariff
Herbert Hoover
an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels -
Atlantic Charter
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Potsdam Conference
Harry Truman -
New Look Policy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It reflected Eisenhower's concern for balancing the Cold War military commitments of the United States with the nation's financial resources. -
Bay of pigs
John F. Kennedy
was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group -
Tet Offensive
Lyndon Johnson -
Detente
Richard Nixon -
Pinckneys Treaty
George Washington
The treaty was an important diplomatic success for the United States. It resolved territorial disputes between the two countries -
Moscow Olympics Boycott
Jimmy Carter -
NAFTA
Bill Clinton
an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral rules-based trade bloc in North America.