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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
John Jay
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
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Oregon Territory
The Pacific Northwest land secured by treaty with Britain in 1846
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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
Bay of Pigs
The CIA's Failed Invasion of Cuba and Kennedy's Defining Early Crisis, April 1961
Berlin Airlift
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
Jay Treaty
The 1794 agreement that kept peace with Britain — and nearly tore the republic apart
NAFTA
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 Quasi-War
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
XYZ Affair
The French bribery scandal that nearly dragged the young republic into another war
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Marshall Plan
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
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Détente
Nixon and Kissinger's strategy of easing Cold War tensions through direct diplomacy
NATO
The alliance that deterred a war for 40 years — and redefined itself when that war never came
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
United Nations
The institution America built, funds, defies, and cannot replace
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