This document provides a historical overview of major events in US and world history from the late 1700s to the early 2000s. It covers the eras of isolationism, westward expansion, the Civil War, imperialism, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the Gulf Wars, and the War on Terror. Key moments discussed include Washington's Farewell Address, the Monroe Doctrine, the Treaty of Versailles, Pearl Harbor, the establishment of the UN, the 9/11 attacks, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

2. George Washington’s Farewell Address
1796

3. Policy of Isolationism

5. Focus of America-1789-late 1800’s
• Building up our government
• Fixing unsolved issues with Great Britain-War
of 1812
• Building up our business and infrastructure
• Moving “West” and war with Mexico
• Issues over slavery and the Civil War
• US was blessed with lots of natural resources

6. Manifest Destiny

8. Monroe Doctrine-1823

9. Civil War 1861-1865

10. The Civil War-1861-1865

11. List the major powers of the world in
the late 1800’s?
• Great Britain
• France
• Germany
• Russia
• Up and Comers:
• Unites States
• Japan
• Losing Power:
• Spain
• Italy
• Ottoman Empire
• Austria-Hungary

12. Europe in 1900

13. Era of Imperialism
• Late 1800’s into early
1900’s
• What were countries
after?

17. Latin America-1800-Most countries
were independent by 1830

19. US Territories Over the Years
• Hawaii
• Alaska
• American Samoa
• Puerto Rico
• US Virgin Islands
• Philippines
• Guam
• Northern Mariana
Island
• When did US get
control?
• How did US get control?
• Do we still have control
of it today? What is it’s
current status?
• Location

20. The Great War 1914-1918
• Started after the
assassination of
Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, the next
King of Austria-Hungary
• Underlying causes:
– Militarism
– Imperialism
– Nationalism
– Alliances

21. The Treaty of Versailles
• Treaty that officially
ended WWI
• Signed at the Paris
Peace Conference
• United States never
signed it
• Germany lost land and
colonies
• Germany’s military was
dismantled
• Germany had to pay
$33 billion
• Germany had to accept
the War Guilt clause
• League of Nations was
set up

23. 1920’s and 1930’s
• In the 1920’s and 1930’s, the US went back to
isolationism
• The Great Depression in the 1930’s made it
easy for the US to focus on America only

24. The Road to WWII
1919-1941

25. Causes for Breakout of WWII
• Japan invaded China in
1937
• Hitler invaded Poland
on 9-1-39
• Japan attacked the
United States at Pearl
Harbor on 12-7-41

26. Effects of WWII on US and World
• US and Soviet Union
became the two world
superpowers
• Europe was split
between democratic
countries and
communist countries
• The Cold War started
• Nuclear arms race
• Israel was established

27. Effects of WWII on the World
• The United Nations was
established
• United Nations
Declaration of Human
Rights-1949
• Geneva Convention-
1949

28. The Cold War 1945-1991
• Political and ideological struggle between the
US and Soviet Union
• US practiced the Policy of Containment due to
the domino effect(theory)
• Examples of containment
– Truman Doctrine
– Marshall Plan
– Korean War
– Vietnam War

29. Cold War Policies
• Containment
• Brinkmanship
• Massive retaliation/Mutual
deterrence/Mutual Assured Destruction
• Détente-1970’s

30. 1980’s
• Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979
– US helped the mujahideen fight the communists
–This group eventually became al-Qaeda and
the Taliban
• Iran and Iraq went to war
– US helped Saddam Hussein as the US was at odds
with Iran

31. The Cold War Ends
• Ronald Reagan • Mikhail Gorbachev

32. 1990’s-The Rise of Iraq and al-Qaeda
• Both Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda became
problems for the United States in the 1990’s

33. Persian Gulf War
August 1990-February 1991
• August 2, 1990, Iraq
Invaded Kuwait

34. Persian Gulf War
• Why did it start?
• Operation Desert Shield
• Operation Desert Storm
• Results:
– Coalition Force victory, Iraqi withdrawl from Kuwait,
destruction of Iraqi/Kuwaiti infrastructure
• Coalition-482 dead, Iraq-20,000-35,000
• 1991-2003
– No-fly zone, weapons inspectors, WMD’s

35. No Fly Zone

36. Iraq War 2003-2011
• President Bush told the
nation that Saddam
Hussein was getting
WMD’s and was not
allowing weapons
inspectors into his
country
• US invades Iraq in March,
2003
• War ends under President
Obama in December,
2011
• Obama pledged to end
war

37. Iraq War
• Us never found any WMD
• President Bush has said he would do the same
thing over again as “the world is a better place
with Saddam Hussein in it”
• US did end Saddam’s reign and established a
democratic government
• War in Iraq became very unpopular

38. The Capture, Trial and Execution of
Saddam Hussein

39. Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse

40. Waterboarding

41. • How did the Persian Gulf War eventually lead
to 9-11?
– Since late 1990, US has had US troops stationed
somewhere in the Middle East to this very day
– Al-Qaeda saw the United States as the new
invaders(instead of the Soviets) of the Islamic
world
– Al-Qaeda started going after us

42. al-Qaeda Attacks in the 1990’s
• 1993 World Trade Center
bombing
• Osama bin Laden declares
jihad against the US in
1997
• US embassy bombings in
Kenya and Tanzania in
1998
• USS Cole attack in 2000 in
Yemen
• 9-11-01 attacks in New
York and Washington D.C.

43. War in Afghanistan
• US invaded Afghanistan
in October, 2001
• The Taliban,
Afghanistan’s
government from 1995-
2001, allowed al-Qaeda
to train there
• President Obama plans
to have all troops out by
the end of 2014
• Bush Doctrine
– policy that says the
United States had the
right to secure itself
against countries that
harbor or give aid to
terrorist groups
– used to justify the 2001
invasion of Afghanistan
and the 2003 invasion of
Iraq

44. US Losses
Iraq
• Almost 4,500 killed
• Over 32,000 wounded
Afghanistan
• Over 2,300 killed