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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence helped form our country in what we are today, and really put a stop to Britain being able to bully us. -
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Foreign Policy Timeline
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Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a US foreign policy containing Latin American countries. It said that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. -
Roosevelt Corollary
The Roosevelt Corollary is a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that was made by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03. -
World War 1
The underlying causes of World War I, which began in the The Balkans in late July 1914, are several. Among these causes were political, territorial and economic conflicts among the great European powers in the four decades leading up to the war. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
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Good Neighbor Policy
The Good Neighbor policy was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt towards Latin America. -
World War 2
World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion (approximately $160 billion in 2014 dollars) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. -
Korean War
The Korean War began as a civil war between North and South Korea, but the conflict soon became international when, under U.S. leadership. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
For thirteen days in October 1962 the world waited—seemingly on the brink of nuclear war—and hoped for a peaceful resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis. -
Operation Desert Storm
The United States had provided massive military aid to Iraq during their eight-year war with Iran, giving them the fourth largest army in the world. -
9/11
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th, or 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the "Islamic State." -
Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)
"Operation Enduring Freedom" (OEF) is the official name used by the U.S. government for the War in Afghanistan, together with a number of smaller military actions, under the umbrella of the Global "War on Terror" (GWOT). -
War On Terror
This ultimately resulted in the US declaring and waging a war on “terror”. Osama Bin Laden was eventually tracked down and killed some 10 years later. -
Air Strikes On ISIS
Kurdish fighters regain several areas of the Syrian border town as White House admits limitations of air assault against militants.
