Major Events of US Foreign Policy

By mwitter19

  • Washington Address

    Washington Address
    George Washington's farewell address included this warning "No Entangling Alliances". This is a warning for the US to not to have alliances with complicated countries who have complicated relations with other alliances. This is the period where isolationism came into play until World War l.

  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War
    US declares war on Spain and Cuba

  • World War l

    World War l
    The US enters a war against Germany

  • World War ll

    World War ll
    The US declares war on Japan after Pearl Harbor Bombing

  • Cold War

    Cold War
    The USA starts to have conflicts with Communism and how the USSR was expanding across Europe and Asia
    Didn't have an exact day of when the war started(ignore 27)

  • Detente

    Detente
    This treaty was used to ease relations between the USA and the Soviet Union/Communism.

  • Salt l and Salt ll

    Salt l and Salt ll
    In Moscow, President Richard Nixon of the USA and Leonid Brezhnev of the USSR both sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the Interim Agreement.

  • 9/11 Attacks

    9/11 Attacks
    On September 11 of 2001, a terrorist group called "Al Qaeda" hijacks 4 passenger airlines and coordinates to attack US facilities. Two of the planes take down the Twin Towers, another crashes into the Pentagon, and the last was suppose to go toward Washington DC, but crashed in a field after the passengers tried to overcome the plane.