Foreign Policy Unit Assessment Study Guide / Seemueller
Sanford Dole
Minor Keith
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight Eisenhower
Monroe Doctrine
Banana Republics
Yellow Journalism
Debate over the Philippines
Roosevelt Corollary – what was it, reasons for it?
Great White Fleet
Open Door Policy
Big Stick Diplomacy
US intervention in Dominican Republic
US intervention in Columbia/Panama
Dollar Diplomacy
Wilson’s 14 Points
Role of U.S. in WWI
WWI’s effects on Americans and the home front
Sabotage and Sedition Acts of 1918
Cycle of debt that led to crisis in the 1930s
Neutrality Acts, including “Cash and Carry”
Lend-Lease Program
Good Neighbor Policy
Atlantic Charter – stated aims
Events leading up to Pearl Harbor, date (Day, Month and Year)
WWII’s effects on the home front, including internment (numbers, treatment, justification, etc.)
Coral Sea and Midway
Battle of the Bulge
Potsdam Conference
Yalta Conference
Dropping the atomic bombs – Arguments for and against, effects, etc.
VE Day (Month and Year)
VJ Day (Month and Year)
D Day (Day, Month and Year)
United Nations – Initial member nations and structure, U.S. role
Red Scare – reasons for?
German “zones of occupation”
Berlin Airlift
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Truman Doctrine (Year) Reasons for, what was the emergency?
Containment
Marshall Plan (Year and plan)
Domino Theory
Deterrence
U2 Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
Know what MacArthur wanted to do in Korea
History of Vietnamese colonization, independence movement
Dienbienphu
Geneva Conference
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Viet Minh and Viet Cong
Tet Offensive
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Vietnamization
For each of the following, know the years, causes, events, and ways in which each event/conflict affected America/Americans and others (including women and minority groups in the U.S.):
Hawaii
Spanish American War
Philippine American War
WWI
WWII
Cold War
Korean War
Vietnam War, including evolution of U.S. policy
Foreign Policies – Know what they are, when they were employed, and which presidents employed them:
Isolationism
Internationalism
Realism
Idealism