U.S. foreign policy
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U.S. foreign policy covers the foreign relations and diplomacy of the United States since 1775.
See also
- 9-11 Attack
- Afghanistan War (1978-92)
- American Revolution, 1775-1783
- Berlin Wall, 1961-89
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Cold War, 1947-89
- Confederate States of America
- Containment
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- Detente
- Diplomacy, U.S., Timeline
- Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957
- Embargo of 1807
- Fourteen Points, 1918
- Gulf War, 1990-91
- Iraq War, 2003+
- Isolationism
- Jay Treaty, 1794
- Korean War, 1950-53
- Lend Lease, 1941-45
- List of scholarly journals in international relations
- Louisiana Purchase, 1803
- Manifest Destiny
- Marshall Plan, 1848-51
- McNary-Haugen Bill, 1920s; (never passed)
- Mexican-American War, 1846-48
- Monroe Doctrine, 1823+
- NATO, 1949+
- NSC-68, 1950
- Quasi-War, 1798-1800
- Reagan Doctrine
- Rollback
- Roosevelt Corollary, 1904
- Spanish American War, 1898
- Tariff, U.S. history
- U.S. Civil War
- United States State Department
- Versailles Treaty, 1919
- Vietnam War, 1965-73
- War of 1812, 1812-15
- Wilsonianism, 1914+
- World War I, 1917-18
- World War II, 1941-45
- Zimmerman Telegram, 1917
See also leaders
- Dean Acheson
- Jane Addams
- John Adams
- John Quincy Adams
- Charles A. Beard
- James G. Blaine
- John C. Calhoun
- Jimmy Carter
- Henry Clay
- Jesse Helms
- Herbert Hoover
- Harry Hopkins
- Edward M. House
- Thomas Jefferson
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- John F. Kennedy
- George Kennan
- Henry Kissinger
- James Monroe
- Richard Nixon
- James K. Polk
- Ronald Reagan
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Josiah Strong
- Harry S. Truman
- Daniel Webster
- Wendell Willkie
- Woodrow Wilson
Bibliography
- Bailey, Thomas A. Diplomatic History of the American People (1940), standard older textbook
- Beisner, Robert L. ed, American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (2003), 2 vol. 16,300 annotated entries evaluate every major book and scholarly article.
- Bemis, Samuel Flagg. A Diplomatic History of the United States (1952) old standard textbook
- Bemis, Samuel Flagg, and Grace Gardner Griffin. Guide to the Diplomatic History of the United States 1775-1921 (1935) bibliographies
- Brune, Lester H. Chronological History of U.S. Foreign Relations (2003), 1400 pages
- Burns, Richard Dean, ed. Guide to American Foreign Relations since 1700 (1983) highly detailed annotated bibliography
- DeConde, Alexander, Richard Dean Burns, Fredrik Logevall, and Louise B. Ketz, eds. Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy 3 vol (2001), 2200 pages; 120 long articles by specialists.
- DeConde, Alexander. A History of American Foreign Policy (1963) online edition
- Findling, John E. ed. Dictionary of American Diplomatic History 2nd ed. 1989. 700pp; 1200 short articles.
- Flanders, Stephen A, and Carl N. Flanders. Dictionary of American Foreign Affairs (1993) 835 pp, short articles
- Hogan, Michael J. ed. Paths to Power: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations to 1941 (2000) essays on main topics
- Hogan, Michael J. and Thomas G. Paterson, eds. Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (1991) essays on historiography
- Lafeber, Walter. The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, 1750 to Present (2nd ed 1994) textbook; 884pp online edition
- Paterson, Thomas G. et al. American Foreign Relations (4th ed. 1995), recent textbook
Online resources