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Period: Jan 25, 600 to
Engagement
A promise to marry. In practice for millenia. Not sure what this has to do with foreign policy. That sould be 600 BCE, but I can't get it to work. -
American Revolution
America gets revolting. We wanna break off ties from a foreign ruler. -
Washington's Farewell Speech
Washington warns against Political Parties and Alliances. We will go on to thumb our noses at him and listen to neither warning. -
Barbary wars
They would go on until 1815, I guess. I don't really know what this has to do with foreign policy, but it certainly wasn't us minding our own business. -
Embargo Act of 1807
We did an embargo on someone, presumably. This is more in keeping with the isolationist stuff, I think. -
War of 1812
Happened in 1812 as a result of the embargo act. Kinda backfired on us there. -
Monroe Doctrine
Banned Europe from messing about in America. Again, more on the isolationist side of matters. -
Us Mexican War
Lasted till 1848. We stole a large chunk Mexico. GO US! Not very isolation-y. -
Manifest Density
The idea that America gets ALL of America. No sharing. Kind of isolation-y? -
Spanish American Cuban War thing
I guess we fought Cuba AND Spain? Yeah. We've pretty much abandoned all pretense of isolationism. -
Annexation of Hawai'i
Yup. We just took it. Not very isolation-y at all. -
Roosevelt Collary
Says America will intervene in Latin American/European conflict (when economically convenient, presumably) as a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. -
WWi
Lasted till 1918. The whole world. In a war. Needless to say, we got involved. -
Isolationism
"Isolationism" kept us out of the world wars till later. Doesn't stop us from taking credit. -
WWII
Ended in 1945. We did it again, this time punctuated by nuclear explosions. Finally the image is relevent. -
Period: to
The Cold War
Nuclear Chicken 'tween USA an USSR. Fun times. -
Marshall Plan
Exacerbated the Cold War. -
Truman doctrine
Started the cold war. -
Period: to
Vietnam
"War" in Vietnam. It happened. It sucked. Moving on. -
Detente
Geopolitical confilct. USA. USSR. COLD WAR. SAME OLD STORY. WHY AM I YELLING? -
Period: to
Carter's Emphasis on Foreign Policy
Yeah. Isolationism was a thing in the past. For like 2 seconds. -
9/11
Yeah. It was a bad time. -
Period: to
War on Terror
Further bad times. Reactionary bad times. Ongoing.
