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 ( ) Hiroshima/Nagasaki Truman Doctrine The State of Israel Marshall Plan Berlin Airlift Korean Conflict (War) China (no recognition) Creation of NATO
Dwight Eisenhower ( ) Korean Conflict USSR Arms Race Hydrogen Bomb
John F. Kennedy ( ) Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson ( ) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Vietnam War
Richard Nixon ( ) Vietnam Chinese recognition SALT “Vietnamization” Laos/Cambodia Indo-Pakistan War Détente
Gerald Ford ( ) Fall of Saigon (Vietnam) End of Vietnam War Helsinki Accords
Jimmy Carter ( ) Arab-Israeli Conflict Camp David Accords SALT II Afghanistan Iranian Hostage Crisis
Ronald Reagan ( ) Arms Race Glasnost SDI Iran-Contra Affair End of Cold War Fall of Berlin Wall
George H.W. Bush ( ) Invasion of Panama Persian Gulf War Soviet Union Break-up NAFTA
William Jefferson Clinton ( ) Rwanda Somalia Bosnia/Kosovo Haiti Palestine/Israel North Korea Cuban Refugee policy Osama Bin Laden (WTC)
George W. Bush ( ) 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