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Declaration of Independence
to announce and explain seperation from great brittian -
Monroe doctrine
Created by James Manroe.based on the American fears related to the possible revival of monarchies in Europe. The main objective of US government was to secure the newly independent colonies of Latin America from European intervention and control. -
Roosevelt corollary
a corollary to the monroe documenet. Created by roosevelt. President Franklin D. Roosevelt renounced interventionism and established his Good Neighbor policy within the Western Hemisphere.The corollary states that the United States will intervene in conflicts between European countries and Latin American countries to enforce legitimate claims of the European powers, rather than having the Europeans press their claims directly. -
world war 1
A time when an isolationist nation involved itself in world affairs and began the rise to the economic and military power that America is today. After keeping out of the conflict that had been ravaging Europe for nearly three years, President Woodrow Wilson took America to war only months after winning an election on the slogan "He Kept us Out of War." Claiming that American intervention was needed to "make the world safe for democracy," Wilson sent over two million men to Europe, of whom over -
Sinking of the Lusitania
1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard killed, leaving 761 survivors.
Turned international opinion against Germany and led towards American entry into World War I. Happened in the North Atlantic Ocean. cause by germans Torpedoing. -
Good Neighbor Policy
foreign policy created towrds Latin America. made by President Roosevelt. -
world war two
Holicost. Killed millions of people -mostly jews-. Ran by hitler. -
Pearl Harbor
against japaneese army and the united states naval base. Suprise attack. In result Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare.The war in Europe ended when Nazi Germany signed its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945, but the Pacific War continued. Together with the United Kingdom and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945, threatening "prompt and utter destruction". -
Truman Doctrine
Policy to stop soviat expansion during the "cold war" -
Marshall Plan
aid to europe. Aid by giving money to eurpoe after world war two, to rebild europian economics and prevent soviet comununism
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act, known as marshall plan. -
Korean war
was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, also assisted by the Soviet Union. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards. -
Vietnam war
also known as the american war. 60,000 deaths. and 2 million vietnamese.Congress enacted the War Powers Act in 1973, requiring the president to receive explicit Congressional approval before committing American forces overseas. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
speach presented by Dwight eisenhower He sigled out the Soviet threat in his doctrine by authorizing the commitment of U.S. forved "to secure and protect the territorial integrity and polictical indepence of such nations, requesting such aid against overt armend agression frm any nation controlled by international communism" -
Cuban Missile crisis
13 day crisis against the U.S. and Solviet union. In response to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, and the presence of American Jupiter ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey against the USSR with Moscow within range -
desert storm
Desert Storm, also known as the first Gulf War, was the U.S.-Allied response to Iraq's attempt to overwhelm neighboring Kuwait. Kuwait's liberation in 1991 brought to the battlefield a new era of military technology. Nearly all battles were aerial and ground combat within Iraq, Kuwait, and outlying areas of Saudi Arabia. Iraq inflicted little damage on the American coalition; however, they fired missiles on Israeli citizens. -
War on Terror
war of terror (WOT) or also known as global war of terror (GWOT) the ongoing campaign by the United States and some of its allies to counter internation terrorism ; -
Afghanistan (operation enduring freedom)
affect of 9/11. Ongoing -
9/11
Terroist attack. Destroyed New York City. 3,000 people died. -
airstrinke on isis
United states starts to bomb isis (terrorist group) At least 20 targets in an around Raqqa were hit, the opposition group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
