USA history (1865-1975) - Foreign Policy

Term for western continentalism 1865-90

Manifest destiny

What was key isolationist doctrine + date

1823 monroe doctrine

Secratary of states 1865-90

Seward and fish

Date of fish attempt to annex dominican republic

1869-71

US fuelling station on Samoa date

1878

US secured use of what in Hawaii

Pearl harbor port in 1887

US purchases of things + date (1865-90)

Midway Island - 1867, Alaska for $7.2 million - 1867

Fenian raids date

1866-71

Alaska boundary dispute, date and eventual full settlement date

1871, settled by 1890

American Anti-Imperialist league founded when and by who?

1898, by Jennings bryan

When was spanish war, and what was trigger

1898, explosion of USS Maine in Havana

When was US protectorate in Cuba founded

1903

What islands were annexed and when (1890-1920)

Puerto Rico, Guam and Philippines in 1898

When was Filipino rebellion crushed, and what was cost

1899, cost $170 million

Open Door Policy started when with what country

1899 with China

Evidence of global policemen in 1900s

1904-05, mediated peace of russo-japanese war

When was Roosevelt corollary

1903

Panama canal dates

Started 1904, finished 1914

Taft Dollar Diplomacy examples

1909, bought debt of Honduras, Haiti and Nicaragua

What happened in 1914

US sent troops to Mexico, and crush revolt in Nicaragua

How much was loaned to allies by 1917

1.8 billion

When was Zimmerman Telegram, and what did it cause

1917, led to US going to war for fear of Mexico invasion

How many US soldiers drafted by 1918, and how many died

3.5 million drafted, 109,000 died

What did Wilson invent in 1918

League of Nations

Harding's renewed isolationist policy was called:

Normalcy

What were the two key US plans involving them in Germany post WW1

Dawes Plan 1924, Young Plan 1929

When was the Washington Naval Conference

1921

Kellogg-Briand Pact Date

1928

US response to the ____ Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1931, did not intervene

What was Hoover/FDR's new foreign policy that shifted away from dollar diplomacy

Good neighbour policy, 1933

When did US troops leave Haiti and Nicaragua

1930s

What Polict giving US control over Cuba ended, and when

Platt amendment in 1934

Key non-interventionist act pre-WW2

Neutrality act, in 1935, 6, 7 and 9

When was FDR's quarantine speech

1937

What did the 1939 Neutrality act enable

A new cash and carry policy, allowing allies to buy arms

When did FDR order conscription, angering who?

1940, angering isolationists

What was the key act which lent allies money in WW2

1941 Lend Lease Act

Trigger for US war entry

1941 Pearl Harbor bombing

What establishment was set up by FDR that later became the CIA

OSS, becoming CIA in 1947

US war casualties statistic

600,000 dead

Defence spending during WW2 stat

5% - 37%, 1941-45

What were the 3 key conference, plus dates

Tehran 1943, Yalta 1945, Potsdam 1945

When did US become 'global policeman' and with what policy

June 1945, with United Nations Charter

Term for the cold war relations

stable instability

Stat for US communist party numbers

1945, 80,000 members

What key legislation under post WW2 supported Europe

Truman doctrine and Marshall Plan, 1947

What executive order saw federal employees checked. How many sacked

order 9835, 3000 sacked

HUAC creation date

1947

Berlin crisis date

1948

NATO creation date

1949

What did USSR do in late 1940s

Exploded an A bomb in 1949

What caused a red scare in the 50s

McCarthyism, 1950-54

Key USSR events in the 1950s

Stalin death in 1953, Khrushchev secret speech in 1956 (de-stalinisation)

Hungarian uprising leader and date

Imre Nagy 1956

What was born in 1949, out of fear of communism

the domino theory

Korean war, date and death toll

1950-53, 36,574

Bay of Pigs and Cuban missile crisis date

1961, 1962

Key agreements post cuba

1963 Hotline agreement, 1963 Test Ban treaty

Czech crisis date and leader

1968, Dubcek

Vietnam war dates

1954-73

Who did JFK send to vietnam in 1961

16,000 military advisors

US troops count in Vietnam under Johnson

500,000 by 1968

Key incident to kick off Johnson's increased involvement

1964 gulf of tonkin

Key turning point in Vietnam war, and public attitudes

1968 Tet offensive, Vietcong troops filmed in US embassy

Nixon's policy to reduce US involvement

Vietnamisation

Key bombing campaign

Operation rolling thunder

Three major chemicals used in Vietnam

Napalm, agent blue, agent orange

Key negotiation in Vietnam

Kissinger secret talks with Zhou Enlai, 1971

Total Vietnam war casualties for US

59,000

What were negotiations with China known as

Ping-pong diplomacy, early 1970s

Nixon's key meetings plus dates

1972 visit to china, 1972 moscow summit

Key negotations that confirmed detente

SALT 1 in 1972

What was agreed to in the SALT talks

ICBM treaty in 1972