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

2. 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

3. Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961) Korean Conflict USSR Arms Race
Hydrogen Bomb

4. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam

5. Lyndon B. Johnson ( )
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vietnam War

6. Richard Nixon (1969-1974) Vietnam Chinese recognition SALT
“Vietnamization”
Laos/Cambodia
Indo-Pakistan War
Détente

7. Gerald Ford (1974-1977) Fall of Saigon (Vietnam) End of Vietnam War
Helsinki Accords

8. Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) Arab-Israeli Conflict Camp David Accords
SALT II
Afghanistan
Iranian Hostage Crisis

9. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) Arms Race Glasnost SDI Iran-Contra Affair
End of Cold War
Fall of Berlin Wall

10. George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) Invasion of Panama Persian Gulf War
Soviet Union Break-up
NAFTA

11. William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001)
Rwanda
Somalia
Bosnia/Kosovo
Haiti
Palestine/Israel
North Korea
Cuban Refugee policy
Osama Bin Laden (WTC)

12. George W. Bush (2001-2009) 9/11 Afghanistan Iraq North Korea
Axis of Evil (5)

13. Barack Obama 2009-present