American Foreign Policy 1945-Present Internationalism: World’s Policeman
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