Focusing on a number of seminal world events, this issue of eJournal USA: Foreign Policy Agenda offers a framework for examining how U.S. foreign relations have evolved over the past century, influenced by the legacy of America's founding ideals of protecting individual rights and freedom.
The Editors recognize that any selection of "major events" will ultimately be arbitrary, but it is our hope that those in this journal will provide insight into the American character and stimulate dialogue among international audiences.
From Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.
American diplomacy in the 20th century is largely the story of how policy-makers have sought the right equilibrium between national interests and ultimate ideals.
After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union represented competing and incompatible philosophies and plans for rebuilding and reorganizing Europe.
The Suez Crisis was nearly a major regional war between Egypt, Israel, Britain, and France that might have drawn in the Soviet Union and the United States.
The Expo provided the backdrop for the cultural Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union.
The communist victory in the Chinese civil war had a shattering impact on the U.S., but by 1972 tensions had eased and each state found the need to resume normalization.
Unlikely diplomats went to play table tennis and changed history along the way.
While pursuing its own interests, the U.S. promoted freedom and open markets in the belief that “free nations trading freely” would improve the human condition.
When the Cold War came to an end in 1989 there was widespread feeling throughout the world that at long last universal peace had descended on Earth.
The European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan, has entered into history as the most successful American foreign policy project since World War II.
Completion of the Panama Canal transformed the American continent and created a vital link for the entire world.
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