american foreign policy

American Foreign Policy

1945-Present

Internationalism: World’s Policeman

Presidents 1933-present

• FDR (32)• Truman (33)• Eisenhower (34)• JFK (35)• LBJ (36)• Nixon (37)• Ford (38)

• Carter (39)• Reagan (40)• GHW Bush (41)• Clinton (42)• GW Bush (43)• Obama (44)

Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)

• Hiroshima/Nagasaki• Truman Doctrine• The State of Israel • Marshall Plan• Berlin Airlift• Korean Conflict (War)• China (no recognition)• Creation of NATO

Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961)

• Korean Conflict• USSR Arms Race• Hydrogen Bomb

John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)

• Bay of Pigs Invasion• Cuban Missile Crisis• Vietnam

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Vietnam War

Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

• Vietnam• Chinese recognition• SALT• “Vietnamization”• Laos/Cambodia• Indo-Pakistan War• Détente

Gerald Ford (1974-1977)

• Fall of Saigon (Vietnam)

• End of Vietnam War• Helsinki Accords

Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

• Arab-Israeli Conflict• Camp David

Accords• SALT II• Afghanistan• Iranian Hostage

Crisis

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

• Arms Race• Glasnost• SDI• Iran-Contra Affair• End of Cold War• Fall of Berlin Wall

George H.W. Bush (1989-1993)

• Invasion of Panama• Persian Gulf War• Soviet Union Break-up• NAFTA

William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001)

• Rwanda• Somalia• Bosnia/Kosovo• Haiti• Palestine/Israel• North Korea• Cuban Refugee policy• Osama Bin Laden (WTC)

George W. Bush (2001-2009)

• 9/11• Afghanistan• Iraq• North Korea• Axis of Evil (5)

Barack Obama 2009-present

• Osama Bin Laden• End War in Iraq• End War in

Afghanistan• N.Korea• Iran sanctions