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Title: American Foreign Policy (1945-Present)

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American Foreign Policy(1945-Present)

• Unit IXA
• AP U.S. History

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Fundamental Questions

• Evaluate the impact of the Cold War on United
  States foreign policy from 1945 to 1990.
• Evaluate how Vietnam marked a turning point in
  American foreign policy between 1945 and the
  present.
• Evaluate how the end of the Cold War maintained
  continuity and fostered change in American
  foreign policy.

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Legacy of World War II on American Foreign Policy

• New World Order
• U.S. virtually unscathed from war destruction
• Imperialist powers and Axis belligerents weakened
• Decolonization
• Non-Alignment Movement
• Superpowers
• United States and Soviet Union
• State of Israel
• Involvement in Middle East affairs
• National and International Defense
• Reorganization of diplomatic and military
  bureaucracy
• United Nations and Security Council

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Decolonization
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Understanding the Cold War

• Superpower nations after WWII
• Soviet Union communism, police state
• United States capitalism, democracy
• Cold War meant a war of words rather than
  outright conflict
• However, the Cold War includes episodes of hot
  conflicts in various regions around the world.

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United Nations

• General Assembly
• Member nations convened to develop a postwar
  world to combat global issues while respecting
  sovereignty and peace.
• Security Council
• 15-member body to authorize peacekeeping and
  promote international security
• Permanent Members
• United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain,
  France, China
• Resolutions must be unanimous

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Occupation of Japan

• Reform
• Emperor as ceremonial role
• Democratization
• Breakup of conglomerates
• Demilitarization
• Economic Recovery
• Avoid communist incursion
• Peace and Alliance

General Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito
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Iron Curtain

• German Occupation Zones
• Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany)
• Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
• Eastern Europe
• Soviet Union did not withdraw its troops from
  occupied Eastern Europe
• Virtually forced communist regimes on Eastern
  European

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Harry S. Truman (D) (1945-1953)Containment

• Truman Doctrine
• Provide economic and military support for nations
  threatened by communism
• Greece and Turkey
• National Security Act (1947)
• Department of Defense
• National Security Council (NSC)
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• NSC-68 (1950)
• Justify defense spending and arms buildup as
  necessary
• Establish alliances with non-communist nations

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Truman Containment (1945-1953) Marshall Plan

• European Recovery Program
• 13 billion in grants
• Rebuild and develop European infrastructure
• Designed to prevent communist uprisings or
  infiltration in vulnerable nations

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Truman Containment (1945-1953) Berlin Airlift

• Soviet Union establishes blockade of West Berlin
• U.S. and allies launch aerial campaign from
  1948-1949
• Drop food and fuel to citizens
• Extremely successful
• Over 200,000 flights
• 47,000 tons daily

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Truman Containment (1945-1953) Cold War
Alliances

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• Permanent alliance between U.S., Canada, and
  Western Europe
• If one member is attacked, all treaty nations
  will defend
• Warsaw Pact
• Soviet Unions version of NATO
• Eastern European satellite nations

15
Truman Containment (1945-1953) Korean Conflict
(1950-1953)

• North Korean Invasion (1950)
• Advised by Soviet Union and China
• Truman and United Nations Intervention
• General Douglas MacArthur launched successful
  counterattack
• Repulsed to 38th parallel by Chinese support
  troops
• Armistice (1953)
• 38th parallel Communist North and Democratic
  South
• Truman win/lose
• Containment worked
• soft on Communism

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Nuclear Arms Race

• Nuclear weapon development
• United States develops weapons with higher yields
• Soviet Union
• Detonated first nuclear weapon (August 1949)
• United Kingdom
• Detonated first nuclear weapon (October 1952)
• France
• Detonated first nuclear weapon (February 1960)
• China
• Detonated first nuclear weapon (October 1964)

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Second Red Scare (1947-1957)

• Government Policies
• Loyalty Review Board
• McCarran Internal Security Act (1950)
• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
• Investigate Americans for pro-communist beliefs
  and blacklisting
• Senator Joseph McCarthy (R)
• McCarthyism
• Espionage
• Alger Hiss
• Klaus Fuchs
• Julia and Ethel Rosenberg

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Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) (1953-1961)Brinkmanship

• Secretary of State John F. Dulles
• Massive Retaliation
• Domino Theory
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• Extension of Truman Doctrine to Middle East
• Covert Operations
• Operation Ajax (1953) - Iran
• Operation PBSUCCESS (1954) - Guatemala

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Eisenhower Brinkmanship (1953-1961)Soviet Union

• Temporary Thaw with Soviet Union
• Atoms for Peace (1953)
• Hungarian Revolt (1956)
• Sputnik (1957)
• U-2 Incident (1960)

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Eisenhower Brinkmanship (1953-1961)Vietnam and
Cuba

• Vietnam
• Geneva Conference (1954)
• Ho Chi Minh and North Vietnam
• Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) (1954)
• Cuba
• Fidel Castro and Revolution
• Deposes Fulgencio Batista (1959)
• American Embargo
• Cuban Alliance with Soviet Union

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Eisenhower Brinkmanship (1953-1961)Farewell
Address (1961)

• Military-Industrial Complex
• Cold War and Arms Race implications
• Warning of a military-corporate state

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John F. Kennedy (D) (1961-1963) Flexible Response

• Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
• Develop conventional military strategies and
  policies
• Nuclear weapon escalation as last phase
• Alliance for Progress (1961)
• Economic cooperation with Latin America
• Peace Corps (1961)
• American University Speech (1963)
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)
• Vietnam (1963)
• Military advisors for South Vietnam and Ngo Dinh
  Diem

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Kennedy Flexible Response (1961-1963)Berlin
Wall

• Berlin Crisis (1961)
• Berlin Wall (1961)
• Checkpoint Charlie
• Ich Bin Ein Berliner (1963)

Premier Nikita Khrushchev and JFK (1961)
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Kennedy Flexible Response (1961-1963)Cuba
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Soviet missiles in Cuba
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Lyndon B. Johnson (D) (1963-1969)Vietnam

• Gulf of Tonkin (August 1964)
• Incident - North Vietnamese fired upon U.S.
  warships
• Resolution - Congress authorized combat troops
  through Johnsons urging
• Escalation
• Operation Rolling Thunder
• Troops increases from 1964 to 1969
• 540,000 at most during Vietnam Conflict
• Tet Offensive (January 1968)
• Vietcong launch surprise attack
• U.S. military victory but political and popular
  victory for Minh and North Vietnamese

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Johnson Vietnam (1963-1969)War and Tragedy
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Space Race

• National Aeronautic and Space Administration
  (NASA) (1958)
• Response to Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin
• Mercury Program
• Alan Shepard
• First American in space (1961)
• John Glenn
• First American to orbit Earth (1962)
• Kennedys Race to the Moon
• Apollo Program
• Apollo 11 (1969)
• One small step for man, one giant leap for
  mankind - Neil Armstrong

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Richard M. Nixon (R) (1969-1974)Detente

• Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
• Nixon Doctrine
• Vietnamization
• Visit to China (1972)
• Met with Chairman Mao
• Virtual recognition of Communist China
• Soviet Union and Leonid Brezhnev
• Visit to Moscow (1972)
• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) (1972)
• OPECs Oil Embargo (1973)

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Nixon Detente (1969-1974)Vietnamization

• Purpose
• Expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese
• Reduce American troop involvement
• Peace with honor
• Cambodia bombings
• My Lai Massacre (1968)
• U.S. troops slaughtered women and children
• Pentagon Papers (1971)
• Avoid defeat and ensure containment
• NOT to help a friend
• New York Times v. United States (1971)
• War Powers Act (1973)
• 48 hours advance notice
• 60 day military authorization, 30 day withdrawal
• Paris Peace Accords (1973)

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Gerald R. Ford (R) (1974-1977) Detente

• Helsinki Accords
• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I)
• Vietnam
• Fall of Saigon (1975)

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Jimmy Carter (D) (1977-1981)Human Rights

• Panama Canal Treaty (1977)
• Camp David Accords (1978)
• Peace between Egypt and Israel
• SALT II (1979)
• Soviet Union and Afghanistan (1979)
• Boycott of Moscow Olympics (1980)
• Iranian Revolution (1979)
• Ayatollah Khomeini
• 55 American hostages for 444 days
• Operation Eagle Claw (1980)

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Ronald Reagan (R) (1981-1989)Rollback

• Reagan Doctrine
• Provide support for resistance movements against
  communist governments
• peace through strength
• Operation Cyclone (1979-1989)
• Support of Mujahideen in Afghanistan
• Lebanon (1983)
• Marines barracks bombing
• Grenada (1983)
• Operation Urgent Fury
• Libya Bombings (1986)

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Reagan Rollback (1981-1989)Iran-Contra Affair

• Iran-Iraq War
• U.S. sold weapons to both sides mostly to Saddam
  Hussein and Iraq
• Nicaragua
• Sandinistas
• Contras
• Boland Amendment (1985)
• Iran-Contra Affair
• Colonel Oliver North
• Weapons sales to Iran funded Contras against
  Sandinistas

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Reagan Rollback (1981-1989)Soviet Union and
Gorbachev

• Evil Empire
• Strategic Defense System (SDI) - Star Wars
• Brandenburg Gate
• "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall."
• Mikhail Gorbachevs Reforms
• Glasnost
• Openness and freedom of expression
• Perestroika
• Gradual capitalist reforms

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George H.W. Bush (R) (1989-1993)End of Cold War

• Iron Curtain Falls
• Germany
• Berlin Wall falls (1989) and Reunification (1990)
• Eastern Europe
• Poland and Solidarity
• Soviet Union
• Dissolution (1991)
• START I (1991) and START II (1993)
• China and Tiananmen Square (1989)

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H.W. Bush End of Cold War (1989-1993)Panama
and Persian Gulf War and Somalia

• Operation Just Cause (1989-1990)
• Invasion of Panama
• Operation Desert Storm (1991)
• Iraq invaded Kuwait
• Coalition victory over Iraq
• Operation Restore Hope (1992-1993)
• Somalia
• Continued through Clinton administration

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Bill Clinton (D) (1993-2001)Foreign Policy

• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
  (1993)
• Bosnia (1995-1999)
• Globalization
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Group of 8 (G-8)

Foreign Policy Shifter, 1994 Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
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George W. Bush (R) (2001-2009) War on Terror

• 9/11
• Bush Doctrine
• Afghanistan
• Iraq
• Homeland Security
• USA PATRIOT Act

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Obama and Todays World (2009-Present)

• Death of Osama bin Laden
• Iraq
• Ended occupation
• Afghanistan
• Taliban resurgence
• Arab Spring
• Egypt
• Libya
• Syria
• Ukraine
• Crimea

Ones Bullseye Cannot Rescure Obamas
Record Financial Times, May 2012

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