Foreign Policy: Pick three topics related to foreign policy you are most confident in your knowledge of & fill out this table for those three. Topic: Foreign Policy Historical Circumstance Action Taken Impact (Effects) Bay of Pigs Invasion & Cuban -Fidel Castro New Dictator of -US Defeated in Covert attempt to Easing of tension between Super Missile Crisis Cuba oust Castro power Friendly to Communist ideas _Newly Elected JFK embarrassed -US removes missiles in -Cuba 90 Miles off coast/Western in failed attempt Turkey/USSR remove missiles in Hemisphere -MBM placed in Russia Leads to Cuba -Eisenhower to JFK Containment 13 days of Cuban Missile Crisis -US Cuba relations stall Cold war foreign policies differ -Possible WWIII -Recent with Pres Obama -Pres. FDR wants to honor -yrs leading to WWII US followed attacked US military base in Hawaii; Neutrality to/Lend - Lease Acts promise to American people and strict policy of Neutrality. Selling US enters war. keep American Boys from war. only to friendly peaceful nations. -Also wants to support biggest -Cash and Carry- US supplied ally in GB weapons only if allied nation paid in cash -Policy Shifts to US delivering tanks and munitions to allie G Monroe Doctrine & Roosevelt -Create stability, order & -Transforms US into -Age of Imperialism “International Corollary Prosperity in the W. Hemp. Police” Europe had many different colonies in -Cuba - North America or what was originally - Spanish American War when is chaos in a nation or a thought of as the world” War” nation is really doing the wrong thing “Splendid “new -Panama - Panama Canal for their people - and only in the -US wants the Western Hemisphere and - Open door policy Western Hemisphere emerged as a global power -Switch in FP from neutrality to US Desires to prevent further the aggressors aggressors. Colonization of US -constant threat of foreign influence over the American continent Pres. James Monroe
Foreign Policy: Pick three topics related to foreign policy you are most confident in your knowledge of & fill out this table for those three. Topic: Foreign Policy Historical Circumstance Action Taken Impact (Effects) Bay of Pigs Invasion & Cuban Missile Crisis -Fidel Castro New Dictator of Cuba Friendly to Communist ideas -Cuba 90 Miles off coast/Western Hemisphere -Eisenhower to JFK Containment Cold war foreign policies differ -US Defeated in Covert attempt to oust Castro _Newly Elected JFK embarrassed in failed attempt -MBM placed in Russia Leads to 13 days of Cuban Missile Crisis -Possible WWIII Easing of tension between Super power -US removes missiles in Turkey/USSR remove missiles in Cuba -US Cuba relations stall -Recent with Pres Obama Neutrality to/Lend - Lease Acts -Pres. FDR wants to honor promise to American people and keep American Boys from war. -Also wants to support biggest ally in GB -yrs leading to WWII US followed strict policy of Neutrality. Selling only to friendly peaceful nations. -Cash and Carry- US supplied weapons only if allied nation paid in cash -Policy Shifts to US delivering tanks and munitions to allie G attacked US military base in Hawaii; US enters war. Monroe Doctrine & Roosevelt Corollary -Age of Imperialism Europe had many different colonies in North America or what was originally thought of as the “new world” -US wants the Western Hemisphere and emerged as a global power US Desires to prevent further Colonization of US -constant threat of foreign influence over the American continent Pres. James Monroe -Create stability, order & Prosperity in the W. Hemp. -Cuba - Spanish American War “Splendid War” -Panama - Panama Canal - Open door policy -Transforms US into “International Police” - when is chaos in a nation or a nation is really doing the wrong thing for their people - and only in the Western Hemisphere -Switch in FP from neutrality to the aggressors aggressors.
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