Two Centuries of U.S. Foreign Policy

STEPHEN J. VALONE is Associate Professor of History at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. He is the author of A Policy Calculated to Benefit China: The United States and the China Arms Embargo, 1919-1929 (Greenwood, 1991).

• IntroductionTreaty of Alliance with FranceGeorge Washington's Neutrality ProclamationGeorge Washington's Farewell AddressThomas Jefferson's Inaugural AddressThe Louisiana PurchaseJames Madison's War Message to CongressThe Monroe DoctrineIndian RemovalThe Democratic Party Platform of 1844Manifest DestinyAbraham Lincoln's Blockade ProclamationSuspension of the Monroe DoctrineReassertion of the Monroe DoctrineThe Influence of Seapower on HistoryMcKinley's War Message to CongressThe Teller Amendment and Cuban ResolutionsMcKinley Takes the PhilippinesThe Platt AmendmentThe Open Door NotesThe Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe DoctrineWoodrow Wilson and Latin AmericaWilson Renounces Dollar DiplomacyWilson and U.S. NeutralityWilson's War MessageThe Lansing-Ishii AgreementThe Fourteen PointsThe Covenant of the League of NationsNormalcyThe Washington Conference TreatiesThe Kellogg-Briand PactThe Stimson DoctrineThe Good Neighbor PolicyThe Neutrality ActsThe Ludlow AmendmentRoosevelt's "Quarantine" SpeechRoosevelt and U.S. NeutralityRoosevelt's Fireside Chat on National SecurityThe Lend-Lease ActThe Atlantic CharterRoosevelt's Request for Declaration of War against JapanDeclaration of Four Nations on General SecurityThe Yalta AgreementsThe Potsdam AgreementsThe Long TelegramThe Truman DoctrineThe Marshall PlanThe North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationThe China White PaperNSC-68The Korean WarEisenhower and GuatemalaThe Domino TheoryThe Eisenhower DoctrineThe Bay of PigsThe Cuban Missile CrisisThe Gulf of Tonkin ResolutionClark Clifford and the Reappraisal of U.S. Policy towards the War in VietnamLyndon Johnson's Post-Tet Address to the NationLinkageThe Nixon DoctrineThe Strategic Arms Limitation TreatyCarter's Human Rights Foreign PolicyThe Panama Canal TreatyThe Carter DoctrineReagan and the Soviet UnionReagan and the Evil EmpireThe Reagan DoctrineThe Intermediate Nuclear Force TreatyThe Shattering of the Eastern BlocThe New World OrderThe End of the Cold WarIndex