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Pinckney's Treaty George WAshington
established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. -
XYZ Affair John Adams
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
the United States declared war against Great Britain in reaction to three issues: the British economic blockade of France, the induction of thousands of neutral American seamen into the British Royal Navy against their will, and the British support of hostile Indian tribes along the Great Lakes frontier -
Adams-Onis Treaty James Monroe
a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo James K. Polk
Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic -
Gadsden Purchase
region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty -
Chinese Exclusion Act Chester A. Arthur
It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Hawaiian Annexation William McKinley
Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War -
Platt Amendment Theodore Roosevelt
It stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions. -
Zimmermann Telegram Woodrow Wilson
proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. -
Washington NAval Conference Warren G. Harding
a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922 -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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
a joint declaration following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland -
Potsdam Conference
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Nerw Look Policy Dwight d. Eisenhower
first defense budget prepared entirely by Eisenhower's own Joint Chiefs of Staff. -
Bay of pigs invasion J. F. Kennedy
Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba -
Tet Offensive
ne of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War -
Detente Richard M. Nixon
Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Moscow Olympics Boycott Jimmy Carter
one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. -
NAFTA Bill Clinton
The North American Free Trade Agreement
