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Pinckney's Treaty George Washington
This treaty ws established to the ntentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. -
XYZ affair George Washington
This was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War. -
War of 1812 JAmes Madison
The war of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain -
Adams-Onis Treaty James Monroe
A treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo James K. Polk
This was entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic. -
Gasden Purchase Framklin Pierce
Gadsden purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States -
Chinese Exclusion Act Chester A. Arthur
This act is United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Hawaiian Annexation Grover Cleveland
1897 Hawaiian islands were formally annexed by the United States in 1898, the event marked end of a lengthy internal struggle between native Hawaiians and white American businessmen for control of the Hawaiian government. -
Platt amendment Theodore Roosevelt
Stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions. -
Zimmermann Telegram Woodrow Wilson
A diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January, 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany -
Washington Naval conference Warren G. Harding
The world's largest naval powers gathered in Washington, D.C. for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia. -
Smoot-Hawley tariff Herbert Hoover
This was an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Atlantic Charter Franklin D. Roosevelt
A joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 -
Potsdam Conference Harry S. Truman
This conference was placed to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
New look policy Dwight D. Eisenhower
The name given to the national security policy of the United States during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Bay of Pigs Invasion John F. Kennedy
A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
Tet Offensive Lyndon Johnson
Tet was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces -
Detente Richard M. Nixon
This was the n ame given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 -
Moscow Olympics Boycott 6 Jimmy Carter
The United States would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan within one month. -
NAFTA Bill Clinton
An agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral rules-based trade bloc in North America.
