The document outlines the history of US foreign policy and involvement in global affairs from the Monroe Doctrine in the early 1800s through the 2000s. Key events included entering WWI late and then returning to isolationism, entering WWII after the attack on Pearl Harbor, developing a bipolar world with the USSR after the war, pursuing containment policies and military interventions during the Cold War, responding aggressively to terrorism after 9/11 through actions like invading Afghanistan and Iraq, and maintaining status as the dominant global power following the fall of the Soviet Union.

2.  Issued by President
Monroe – U.S. warned
Western Europe to
stay out of the
Western Hemisphere
 Up until the 1900 the
U.S. did not get
involved in foreign
affairs outside the
Western Hemisphere

3.  U.S. becomes a
world player
 Multi-polar world

4.  U.S. enters late in
the war (1917)
 After the war, the
U.S. returns to
isolationism

5.  U.S. attacked (Pearl
Harbor, Dec. 1941)
 After the war -
bipolar world

6.  US v. USSR
 NATO versus Warsaw
Pact
 Massive nuclear arms
buildup
 1946-1991
 Truman Doctrine
◦ Policy of aiding countries
fighting communism
 Korean War
 Vietnam War
 Carter Doctrine
◦ Affirms U.S dependence
on foreign oil

7.  War Power’s
Resolution (1973)-
◦ Gives president greater
authority to take
military action
◦ Never been tested
 Fear of US hegemony
(spread of US power)
◦ China
◦ India
◦ Russia

8.  Collapse of the
Soviet Union leaves
the U.S. as
dominant power
 Unipolar world
 Iraq invades Kuwait
 Persian Gulf War-
1991
 US forces Iraq out
of Kuwait

9.  9/11/01 changed
everything
 Bush Doctrine
 US. Policy to go
aggressively after
state sponsored
terrorism
◦ unilateralism
◦ preemptive strike
 Dept. of Homeland
Security

10.  2003-US Invasion
of Afghanistan &
Iraq
 Afghanistan had
harbored Al-Qaeda
 US felt Iraqi WMD
threatened US