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Jay Treaty
George Washington was president during the Jay Treaty. It was a 1795 treaty between the United States and the Great Britain that is credited with averting war,[3] resolving issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783 (which ended the American Revolution),[4] and facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars, which began in 1792. -
Pinckney's Treaty
George Washington was president during Pinckney's Treaty. Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. -
Treaty of Tripoli
John Adams was the president during the Treaty of Tripoli. The Treaty of Tripoli (Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary) was the first treaty concluded between the United States of America and Tripolitania. -
XYZ Affair
John Adams was president during the XYZ Affair. The XYZ Affair was 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. The name derives from the substitution of the letters X, Y and Z for the names of French diplomats in documents released by the Adams administration. -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson was president during the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase is when the United States aquired 828,000 sq. mi. of land from France's claim of Louisiana. -
Embargo Act of 1807
Thomas Jefferson was the president during the Embargo Act of 1807. The goal was to force Britain and France to respect American rights during the Napoleonic Wars. -
War of 1812
James Madison was president during the War of 1812. The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years, between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its American Indian allies. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
James Monroe was president during the Adams-Onis Treaty. It was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave West Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain (now Mexico). -
Mexican-American War
James K. Polk was president during the Mexican-American War. The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexican War or the Invasion of Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico from 1846 to 1848. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
James K. Polk was president during the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed by the United States and Mexico on February 2, 1848, ending the Mexican War and extending the boundaries of the United States by over 525,000 square miles. -
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Zachary Taylor was president during the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. It was negotiated in response to attempts to build the Nicaragua Canal, a canal in Nicaragua that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic -
Gadsden Purchase
Franklin Pierce was president during the Gadsden Purchase. The United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War. -
Kanagawa Treaty
Franklin Pierce was president during the Kanagawa Treaty. The United States of America and the empire of Japan, desiring to establish firm, lasting and sincere friendship between the two nations, have resolved to fix, in a manner clear and positive by means of a treaty or general convention of peace and amity. -
Alaska Purchase Treaty
Andrew Johnson was president during the Alaska Purchase Treaty. On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chester Arthur was the president during the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Hawaiian Annexation
William McKinley was president during the Hawaiian Annexation. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor. -
Open Door Policy
William McKinley was president during the Open Door Policy. In more recent times, Open Door policy describes the economic policy initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978 to open up China to foreign businesses that wanted to invest in the country. -
Boxer Rebellion
William McKinley was president during the Boxer Rebellion. This was a violent xenophobic and anti-Christian movement which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1898 and 1900. It was initiated by the Militia United in Righteousness (Yihetuan), known in English as the "Boxers", and was motivated by proto-nationalist sentiments and opposition to foreign imperialism and Christianity. The Great Powers intervened and defeated Chinese forces -
Treaty of Mortefontaine
John Adams was president during the Treaty of Mortefontaine. The treaty put an end to a long conflict between the U.S. and France. -
Big Stick Diplomacy
Theodore Roosevelt was president during the Big Stick Diplomacy. The idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the "big stick", or the military, ties in heavily with the idea of Realpolitik, which implies a pursuit of political power that resembles Machiavellian ideals. -
Platt Amendment
Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during the Platt Amendment. Approved on May 22, 1903, the Platt Amendment was a treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention. It permitted extensive U.S. involvement in Cuban international and domestic affairs for the enforcement of Cuban independence. -
Veracruz Incident
Woodrow Wilson was president during the Veracruz Incident. The United States occupation of Veracruz, which began with the Battle of Veracruz, lasted for seven months and was a response to the Tampico Affair of April 9, 1914. The incident came in the midst of poor diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States, and was related to the ongoing Mexican Revolution. -
Zimmermann Telegram
Woodrow Wilson was the president during the Zimmermann Telegram. In the telegram, intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence in January 1917, Zimmermann instructed the ambassador, Count Johann von Bernstorff, to offer significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter any future U.S-German conflict as a German ally. -
14 Points
Woodrow Wilson was president during the 14 Points. In this January 8, 1918, address to Congress, President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war. -
Washington Naval Conference
Warren G. Harding was president during the Washington Navel Conference. It was the first international conference held in the United States and the first arms control conference in history, and as Kaufman, 1990 shows, it is studied by political scientists as a model for a successful disarmament movement. -
Dawes Plan
Calvin Coolidge was president during the Dawes Plan. The Dawes Plan of 1924 was formulated to take Weimar Germany out of hyperinflation and to return Weimar's economy to some form of stability. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Calvin Coolidge was president during the Kellogg-Briand Pact. It is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them". -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Herbert Hoover was president during the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. The original intention behind the legislation was to increase the protection afforded domestic farmers against foreign agricultural imports. -
Neutrality Act of 1937
Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during the Neutrality Act of 1937. It was created in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts. -
Atlantic Charter
Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during the Atlantic Charter. The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. -
Casablanca Conference
Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during the Casablanca Conference. It was a conference held to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Potsdam Conference
Harry Truman was president during the Potsdam Conference. The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States -
Marshall Plan
Harry Truman was president during the Marshall Plan. It was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion (approximately $160 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II -
New Look Policy
Dwight D. Eisenhower was president during the New Look Policy. The New Look was the name given to the national security policy of the United States during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. It reflected Eisenhower's concern for balancing the Cold War military commitments of the United States with the nation's financial resources. -
SEATO
Dwight D. Eisenhower was president during SEATO. Primarily created to block further communist gains in Southeast Asia, SEATO is generally considered a failure because internal conflict and dispute hindered general use of the SEATO military; however, SEATO-funded cultural and educational programs left long-standing effects in Southeast Asia. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
John F. Kennedy was president during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos (or Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Girón), was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
Alliance for Progress
John F, Kennedy was president during the Alliance for Progress. It aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Lyndon Johnson was president during the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. It gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of "conventional'' military force in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary in order to assist "any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty". This included involving armed forces -
Tet Offensive
Lyndon Johnson was president during the Tet Offensive. The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against the forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. -
Détente
Richard Nixon was president during Détente. The term is often often used in reference to the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente; a "thawing out" or "un-freezing" at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War. -
SALT
Richard Nixon was president during SALT. The United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments. -
Camp David Accords
Jimmy Carter was president during the Camp David Accords. The Camp David Accords were the result of 14 months of diplomatic efforts by Egypt, Israel, and the United States that began after Jimmy Carter became President.[2] The efforts initially focused on a comprehensive resolution of disputes between Israel and the Arab countries, gradually evolved into a search for a bilateral agreement between Israel and Egypt -
Moscow Olympics Boycott
Jimmy Carter was the president during the Moscow Olympics Boycott. President Jimmy Carter informs a group of U.S. athletes that, in response to the December 1979 Soviet incursion into Afghanistan, the United States will boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It marked the first and only time that the United States has boycotted the Olympics. -
Iran-Contra Affair
Ronald Reagan was president during the Iran-Contra Affair. Iran-contra affair, in U.S. history, secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. -
Persian Gulf War
George H. W. Bush was president during the Persian Gulf War. U.S., Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, and Italy went to war against Iraq on January 16, 1991, in response to Iraq's August 1, 1990, invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
Oslo Accords
Bill Clinton was the president during the Oslo Accords. It was the first face-to-face agreement between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). -
NAFTA
Bill Clinton was president during NAFTA. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Clinton said he hoped the agreement would encourage other nations to work toward a broader world-trade pact. -
9/11
George W. Bush was president during 9/11, 9/11 was when an Al-Quaeda terrorist group hijacked 4 American Airlines and crashed 2 into the World Trade buildings in NYC, and crashed another into the Pentagon, and another in a field in Pennsylvania. -
Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act
George W. Bush was president during the Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act. It is an agreement under which India agreed to separate its civil and military nuclear facilities and to place all its civil nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards and, in exchange, the United States agreed to work toward full civil nuclear cooperation with India.
