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Declaration of Independence
written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress -
Louisiana Purchase
The U.S. purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France -
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War of 1812
the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world in a conflict that would have a huge compact on the World -
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Mexican/American War
Marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil -
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Spanish/ American War
The Spanish-American war was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acpuisition of territories in the Western Pacific and Latin America -
Panama Canal
Canal across a 50-mile stretch of the Panama isthmus -
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WW1
A war in which mechanized infantry was first implamented -
Zimmerman Telegram
British codebreakers intercepted an encrypted message from Zimmermann intended for Heinrich Von Eckardt -
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27,1928 -
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Great Depression
Worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world -
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WWI
Two-sided war as Allies and Central Powers -
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WWII
Germany attacked Poland in 1939 So Bitian and France aligned against Germany -
United Nations
193 member states that vowed to create an international postwar peacekeeping organization -
the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and World Trade Organization
Completed the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations and created the WTO to reduce tariffs -
Truman Doctrine
was the foreign policy that was developed after WWII -
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Cold War
After WWII a war of ideas and conviolent actions betweem the Soviet Union and te United Nations began -
Berlin Blockade
was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France -
Marshall Plan
channelled over $13 billion to finance the economjc recovery -
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Berlin Blockade
to avoid war we ordered massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin -
Rio Treaty
agreement binding the republics of the western hemisphere together in a mutual defense system -
NATO
an intergovernmental military alliance -
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Korean War
Began when 75,000 soldiers poured from the northern Soviet-backed Democratic peoples republic of Korea -
Taiwan Straits
first crisis was a brief armed conflict that took place between the governments of the peoples republic of China -
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Vietnam War
conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally The U.S. -
Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista -
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Berlin Wall
Between East and West Berlin -
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Cuban missile crisis
Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
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Defente
period of improved relations -
SALT I
Admist the Cold War a series of treaties was issued under the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty to curtail the Build- up of nuclear weapons -
Camp David Accords
the first of two Egyptian-Israeli Disengagement agreements providing for the return of portions of the Sinai to Egypt were signed -
SALT II
negotiations began for SALT II and continuted for seven years -
Caribbean Basin Initiative
temporary United States Program -
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Persian Gulf War
Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait -
Chemical Weapons Convention
Bought China into the Chemical Weapons Convention -
Framework
reduced North Korean threat through deterrence and diplomacy Framework Aggreement to freeze and dismantle North Koreas dangerous nuclear weapons fuel production and moratorium on long-range missle testing in 1999 -
NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement among the United States, Canada, and Mexico designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries -
Cessation of Hostilities Agreement
Negotiated a final, comprehensive peace agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia -
9/11
Members associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplances and carried out swuicude attacks -
War on Terror
an international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. Government after 9/11 -
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Iraq War
Conflict consisted of two phases
