Coach Lott

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Historic Foreign Policy Decisions

• Coach Lott
• Ch. 22,25

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Monroe Doctrine

• The Monroe Doctrine was a US foreign policy
  regarding Latin American countries in the early
  19th century. It stated that further efforts by
  European nations to colonize land or interfere
  with states in North or South America would be
  viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S.
  intervention. At the same time, the doctrine
  noted that the United States would neither
  interfere with existing European colonies nor
  meddle in the internal concerns of European
  countries.
• Spain, Portugal, France
• Isolated the New World from the Old World

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Manifest Destiny

• In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the
  widely held belief in the United States that
  American settlers were destined to expand
  throughout the continent.
• U.S, Mexico, England
• U.S expanded its territory from the Atlantic to
  the Pacific.

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Open-Door Policy

• The policy proposed to keep China open to trade
  with all countries on an equal basis thus, no
  international power would have total control of
  the country.
• China, U.S, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and
  Japan
• China would ultimately close its doors to others
  and become a Communist country until recently
  when they have been trading with many more
  nations including the U.S.

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Roosevelt Corollary

• The corollary states that the United States will
  intervene in conflicts between European countries
  and Latin American countries to enforce
  legitimate claims of the European powers, rather
  than having the Europeans press their claims
  directly. ( We will police this entire
  hemisphere)
• U.S. , Western Europe
• Further Isolated the U.S. and Western Europe

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Wilsonianism

• Advocacy of the spread of democracy
• Advocacy of the spread of capitalism
• Opposition to isolationism and
  non-interventionism
• Pro-imperialism, In favor of intervention to
  further national self-interest.
• U.S, Germany, Western Europe
• During and after WWI. Move from isolationism to
  internationalism.

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Marshall Plan

• The Marshall Plan was the American initiative to
  aid Europe, in which the United States gave 17
  billion (approximately 160 billion in 2014
  dollars) in economic support to help rebuild
  European economies after the end of World War II
  in order to prevent the spread of Soviet
  Communism.
• Western European Countries (mostly Britain,
  France, and West Germany)
• Continue Internationalism. Mostly economic plan
  but similar efforts are used today in most of our
  foreign conflicts.

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Truman Doctrine

• The Truman Doctrine was a U.S. policy to stop
  Soviet expansion during the Cold War. United
  States President Harry S. Truman pledged to
  contain communism in Europe and elsewhere and
  impelled the US to support any nation with both
  military and economic aid if its stability was
  threatened by communism or the Soviet Union. The
  Truman Doctrine became the foundation of the
  president's foreign policy and placed the U.S. in
  the role of global policeman.
• U.S. and Soviet Union
• Created policy of Containment ( led to Korean
  War, Vietnam War.)

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Eisenhower Doctrine

• Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern
  country could request American economic
  assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it
  was being threatened by armed aggression from
  another state.
• U.S. (United Nations), Soviet Union
• U.S. becomes concern about the flow of oil out of
  this region. Still a concern today.

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Mutual Assured Destruction

• Mutual assured destruction, or mutually assured
  destruction (MAD), is a doctrine of military
  strategy and national security policy in which a
  full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass
  destruction by two or more opposing sides would
  cause the complete annihilation of both the
  attacker and the defender.
• U.S. and Soviet Union (Cold War)
• Created concept of deterrence. ( Neither side
  will use nuclear weapons if they know the other
  side will also.)

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Bush (Obama) Doctrine

• The Bush Doctrine includes the policy of
  preventive war, which held that the United States
  should depose foreign regimes that represented a
  potential threat to the security of the United
  States, even if that threat was not immediate a
  policy of spreading democracy around the world,
  especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for
  combating terrorism and a willingness to
  unilaterally pursue U.S. military interests.
• U.S., Middle East, Any terrorists group.
• Concept of preventive war.