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Jay Treaty, George Washington
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, John Adams
The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. U.S. and French negotiators restored peace with the Convention of 1800, also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine -
Lousiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson
was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, Zachary Taylor
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, Franklin Pierce
opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Japan. -
Big Stick Diplomacy, Theodore roosevelt
, or Big Stick policy refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick." -
Boxer Rebellion, William Mckinley
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. -
Veracruz INcident, Woodrow Wilson
The United States occupation of Veracruz began with the Battle of Veracruz and lasted for seven months, as a response to the Tampico Affair -
Dawes Plan, Calvin Coolidge
an attempt in 1924 to solve the reparations problem, which had bedeviled international politics following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. -
Neutrality Act of 1937, Franklin Roosevelt
the Congress passed a joint resolution outlawing the arms trade with Spain -
Marshall Plan, Harry S Truman
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 2 -
Seato, Eisenhower
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (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. -
Allianance for Progress, John F. Kennedy
designed to improve U.S. relations with Latin America, which had been severely damaged in recent years. -
Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution, Lyndon B. Johnson
a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
SALT, Richard Nixon
were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II. -
Camp David Accords, Jimmy Carter
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, Ronald Reagan
secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. The Iran-contra affair was the product of two separate initiatives during the administration of President Ronald Reagan. -
Persian Gulf War, George H.W Bush
was an armed conflict between Iraq and a coalition of 39 nations including the United States, Britain, Egypt, France, and Saudi Arabia; 28 nations contributed troops. -
9/11 George Bush
Sept. 9th, 2001 the deadliest terrorist attack on US soil took place. -
Casablanca Conference, Franklin roosevelt
The Casablanca Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca, Morocco that took place from January 14–24, 1943.
