Executive Branch Foreign Policy

  • XYZ Affair

    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

    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

    Adams-Onis Treaty

    James Monroe
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    James K. Polk
  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase

    Franklin Pierce
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chester Arthur
  • Hawaiian Annexation

    Hawaiian Annexation

    William Mckinley
  • Platt Amendment

    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

    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

    Washington Naval Conference

    Warren G. Harding
  • Smoot Hawley Tariff

    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

    Atlantic Charter

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Harry Truman
  • New Look Policy

    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

    Bay of pigs

    John F. Kennedy
    was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    Lyndon Johnson
  • Detente

    Detente

    Richard Nixon
  • Pinckneys Treaty

    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

    Moscow Olympics Boycott

    Jimmy Carter
  • NAFTA

    NAFTA

    Bill Clinton
    an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral rules-based trade bloc in North America.