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Jays treaty
representatives of the United States and Great Britain signed Jay's Treaty, which sought to settle outstanding issues between the two countries that had been left unresolved since American independence. -
Treaty Of Mortefontaine
was a treaty between the United States of America and France to settle the hostilities that had erupted during the Quasi-War. -
Louisana Purchase
was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. -
clayton-Bulwer Treaty
was a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom, negotiated in 1850 by John M. Clayton and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, later Lord Dalling. It was negotiated in response to attempts to build the Nicaragua Canal, a canal in Nicaragua that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic. -
Kanagawa Treaty
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.S. government, signs this treaty with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Japan -
Boxer Rebellion
a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. -
Big Stick Diplomacy
International negotiations backed by the threat of force. -
Veracruz Incident
the occupation of Veracruz, the chief port on the east coast of Mexico, by military forces of the United States during the civil wars of the Mexican Revolution. -
Dawes Plan
was an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany. -
Neutrality act of 1937
passed in May, included the provisions of the earlier acts, this time without expiration date, and extended them to cover civil wars as well. -
Casablanca Conference
was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Marshall plan
was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. -
SEATO
was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. -
alliance for progress
initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961 aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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SALT
ere signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. -
Camp David accords
were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. -
Iran Contra Affair
name given to a series of secret and illegal actions by US government officials under President Ronald Reagan. In 1985, officials in the National Security Council sold military weapons to Iran so it would help in freeing US prisoners in Lebanon. -
Persian Gulf war
a war fought between Iraq and a coalition led by the United States that freed Kuwait from Iraqi invaders -
9/11
the day on which Islamic terrorists, believed to be part of the Al-Qaeda network, hijacked four commercial airplanes and crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City and a third one into the Pentagon in Virginia: the fourth plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania.
