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Jay 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
A peace treaty between France and the USA -
Louisiana Purchase
The Lousiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and Frace, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Clayton Bulwer Treaty
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
The treaty of kanagawa openned the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of 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
An attempt to solve the reparations problem, which had bedeviled international politics following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. -
Neutrality Act of 1937
Act bans the trade of arms. -
Casablanca Conference
Meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Rooselvelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca. -
Marshall Plan
Named for Secretaty of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastucture of postwar Europe. -
SEATO
An international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact. -
Alliance fo 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
A joint resolution that the United States Congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
SALT(Strategic Arms Limitations Talks)
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. -
Camp David Accords
Signed by Egyptian Presidetn Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem. The two framework agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. -
Iran-Contra Affair
Secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. -
Persian Gulf War
American soldiers were sent to Iraq to keep the pece -
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.
