American Culture: Foreign Policy

American Foreign Policy

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American Foreign Policy

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Aims

You can name and give examples of the main stages in US foreign policy

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What was isolationism?

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Isolationism

1918-1940

Monroe Doctrine (1823)

No interference in the affairs of European states

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Intervention

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What was interventionism?

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Interventionism

1940-1945
WWII

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Containment

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What do the bird, and the automobile represent
What are they racing toward?

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Containment

1973
Cold War
Communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries.

Vietnam, Cuba, Chile, Dominican Republic

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Wat is Détente?

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Détente

1970's
The easing of strained relations
Nixon

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What caused the conflict between the USA and the middle East?

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USA and the Middle East 1950s- 1990s

Oil
Shah of Persia (Iran)
Islamic revolution 1979
Desert Storm
Gulf War

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2001-2019
The War on Terror

9-11
Stereotyping of Muslims
Global economy
Gas and oil prices

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Research the following question:

What do you know about foreign policy during the presidencies of:

Bush Jr?
Obama?
Trump?

(War on Terrorism, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Russia, China...)

Find an image to illustrate your answer.

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Bush Junior

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Obama

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Trump

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