All milestones
- Continental Congress, 1774-1781
- Secret Committee of Correspondence/ Committee for Foreign Affairs, 1775-1777
- The Declaration of Independence, 1776
- The Model Treaty, 1776
- French Alliance, French Assistance, and European Diplomacy during the American
Revolution, 1778-1782
- Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776-1785
- Articles of Confederation, 1777-1781
- Treaty of Paris, 1783
- Indian Treaties and the Removal Act of 1830
- The Amistad Case, 1839
- The Opening to China Part I: the First Opium War, the United States, and the
Treaty of Wangxia, 1839-1844
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
- The Oregon Territory, 1846
- The Annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the Treaty of
Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1845-1848
- Founding of Liberia, 1847
- United States Maritime Expansion across the Pacific during the 19th
Century
- Gadsden Purchase, 1853-1854
- The United States and the Opening to Japan, 1853
- The Opening to China Part II: the Second Opium War, the United States, and the
Treaty of Tianjin, 1857-1859
- Territorial Expansion, Filibustering, and U.S. Interest in Central America and
Cuba, 1849-1861
- U.S. Diplomacy and the Telegraph, 1866
- Purchase of Alaska, 1867
- The Burlingame-Seward Treaty, 1868
- Commodore Robert W. Shufeldt’s Voyage to Africa, the Middle East, and Asia,
1878-1880
- Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts
- Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History: Securing International
Markets in the 1890s
- Blaine and Pan Americanism, 1880s/1890s
- Venezuela Boundary Dispute, 1895-1899
- Annexation of Hawaii, 1898
- U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism, 1895-1898
- The Spanish-American War, 1898
- The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902
- Secretary of State John Hay and the Open Door in
China, 1899-1900
- Japanese-American Relations at the Turn of the Century, 1900–1922
- The United States, Cuba, and the Platt Amendment, 1901
- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904
- The Treaty of Portsmouth and the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
- Dollar Diplomacy, 1909-1913
- The Chinese Revolution of 1911
- Building the Panama Canal, 1903-1914
- The Washington Naval Conference, 1921–1922
- The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act)
- The Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, German Reparations, and Inter-allied War Debts
- The Geneva Naval Conference, 1927
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
- The 1928 Red Line Agreement
- The Great Depression and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Protectionism in the Interwar Period
- The London Naval Conference, 1930
- The Mukden Incident of 1931 and the Stimson Doctrine
- Good Neighbor Policy, 1933
- Recognition of the Soviet Union, 1933
- New Deal Trade Policy: The Export-Import Bank & the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act, 1934
- The Neutrality Acts, 1930s
- Japan, China, the United States and the Road to Pearl Harbor, 1937-41
- Mexican Expropriation of Foreign Oil, 1938
- American Isolationism in the 1930s
- Henry Luce and 20th Century U.S. Internationalism
- The Atlantic Conference & Charter, 1941
- Lend-Lease and Military Aid to the Allies in the Early Years of World War II
- U.S.-Soviet Alliance, 1941-1945
- Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, 1943
- Wartime Conferences, 1941-1945
- The Casablanca Conference, 1943
- The Tehran Conference, 1943
- The Bretton Woods Conference, 1944
- The Yalta Conference, 1945
- The Potsdam Conference, 1945
- The Formation of the United Nations, 1945
- Atomic Diplomacy
- Occupation and Reconstruction of Japan, 1945-52
- The Acheson-Lilienthal & Baruch Plans, 1946
- The Truman Doctrine, 1947
- National Security Act of 1947
- Kennan and Containment, 1947
- Marshall Plan, 1948
- Berlin Crises
- Creation of Israel, 1948
- The Arab-Israeli War of 1948
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949
- The Chinese Revolution of 1949
- NSC-68, 1950
- Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945-1960
- The Korean War, 1950-1953
- The Australia, New Zealand and United States Security Treaty (ANZUS Treaty),
1951
- The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (The
McCarran-Walter Act)
- Korean War and Japan's Recovery
- Dien Bien Phu & the Fall of French Indochina, 1954
- Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 1954
- The Taiwan Straits Crises: 1954-55 and
1958
- U.S.-China Ambassadorial Talks, 1955-1970
- The Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1955
- The Baghdad Pact (1955) and the Central Treaty
Organization (CENTO)
- Bandung Conference (Asian-African Conference), 1955
- Khrushchev and the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, 1956
- Suez Crisis, 1956
- Sputnik, 1957
- The Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957
- The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1961
- U-2 Overflights and the Capture of Francis Gary Powers, 1960
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