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#Diplomacy

41 entries

People (5)

Benjamin Franklin

Printer, diplomat, and scientist who helped engineer American independence

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady, diplomat, and the human rights conscience of the 20th century

First Chief Justice of the United States and co-author of The Federalist Papers

John Quincy Adams

6th President of the United States, diplomat, and antislavery congressman

Robert R. Livingston

The Committee of Five member who helped draft the Declaration — and later bought Louisiana

Places (2)

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library

The Atlanta library joined to the center that defined his later life

Oregon Territory

The Pacific Northwest land secured by treaty with Britain in 1846

Events (15)

Battle of Saratoga

The 1777 American victory that brought France into the Revolutionary War

Battle of Yorktown

The 1781 siege that ended the Revolutionary War and secured American independence

The CIA's Failed Invasion of Cuba and Kennedy's Defining Early Crisis, April 1961

The 11-Month Mission That Defied the Soviet Blockade, 1948–1949

Cuban Missile Crisis

Thirteen days in 1962 when nuclear war became a real possibility

Fall of the Berlin Wall

The 1989 night that signaled the end of the Cold War

Iran Hostage Crisis

The 444-Day Captivity That Ended the Carter Presidency, 1979–1981

The 1794 agreement that kept peace with Britain — and nearly tore the republic apart

The 1994 trade pact that bound North America together

The Adams-Onís Treaty

The 1819 treaty that gave the United States Florida and a line to the Pacific

The Gadsden Purchase

The 1854 land deal that finished the map of the lower 48

The Paris Climate Agreement

The 2015 global pact to limit climate change — and America's wavering role

The undeclared naval war that nearly broke the Franco-American alliance

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The 1848 peace that gave the United States a third of a continent — and intensified the slavery crisis

The French bribery scandal that nearly dragged the young republic into another war

Documents (4)

The American Program That Rebuilt Western Europe After World War II

Monroe Doctrine

The 1823 declaration that the Western Hemisphere was closed to further European colonization

North Atlantic Treaty

The 1949 alliance document that reversed 150 years of American foreign policy

Treaty of Paris (1783)

The agreement that ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American independence

Concepts (7)

Nixon and Kissinger's strategy of easing Cold War tensions through direct diplomacy

The Open Door Policy

America's turn-of-the-century bid for equal access to China

U.S.–Britain Relations

From the empire America rebelled against to its closest ally — two centuries from war to the "special relationship"

U.S.–China Relations

From Open Door to trade war — the relationship that will define the 21st century

U.S.–France Relations

The ally that won America its independence, sold it a third of a continent, and gave it the Statue of Liberty

U.S.–Soviet Relations

Allies for four years, adversaries for 46 — the rivalry that defined the 20th century

U.S.–Spain Relations

From the empire that colonized half the continent to the war that ended its American reach

Organizations (8)

The 1949 alliance that bound America to Europe's defense and deterred the Soviet Union for forty years

The Cold War alliance built to contain communism in Asia, 1954–1977

The League of Nations

The world body Woodrow Wilson built — and the U.S. Senate refused to join, 1920

The Organization of American States

The Western Hemisphere body that carried old doctrines into the Cold War, 1948

The Peace Corps

JFK's volunteer corps that sent young Americans to serve abroad, 1961

The Warsaw Pact

The Soviet military alliance that answered NATO, 1955–1991

The World Health Organization

The UN's global health agency — and America's fraught partner in it, 1948

The international body America founded in 1945 — and has funded, led, and defied ever since

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