US Foreign Policy timeline

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    when we signed a treaty loosly tying all 50 states together
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine
    warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
  • Roosevelt Corollary

    Roosevelt Corollary
    States that it will interfere anytime that they get too close to us
  • WWI

    WWI
    It pitted the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. The introduction of modern technology to warfare resulted in unprecedented carnage and destruction, with more than 9 million soldiers killed by the end of the war in November 1918.
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania
    during the fist world war when the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania sank by the Germans
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    with the US and Russia fighting over missiles deployed in cubia
  • Good Neighbor Policy

    Good Neighbor Policy
    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that if others respect us and our neighbors laws and dont attack us then we will do the same.
  • World War II

    World War II
    when we fought i the second world wide war agaisnt apposing forces
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    when Japan attacked US with planes
  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Bombing of Hiroshima
    when american droppped atomic bomb over japan
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    stopped the Soviet union from trying to take of US during the cold wars
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    Meant to help other countries in need after WWII
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    caused by North Kprean soldiers paaing 38th paralell
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    where North vietnam started to fight agianst South vietnam
  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    Eisenhower Doctrine
    Stated that other countries could ask for military aid if attacked by another country like with terroists
  • Operation Desert Storm

    Operation Desert Storm
    was a war waged by forces from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
  • 9/11

    9/11
    when a group of terrorists highjacked aplane and took out the twin towers
  • War on Terror

    War on Terror
    To try and stop terrorist attacks
  • Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)

    Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)
    started when we got terrorist attacks on the United States.
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom

    Operation Iraqi Freedom
    where america invaded Iraq to stop a ton of thngs from happening and it caused a lot of wars with them to try and let them gain fredom
  • Air Strikes on ISIS

    Air Strikes on ISIS
    when we attacjed ISIS and bombed them to try to get the tk stop