What types of foreign policies the US has taken over the last 100 years?

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What types of foreign policies the US has taken over the last 100 years?

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Answer 1

Well, so far you have a lot of garbage answers. I will try to give you a decent one.

In the early twentieth century, the foreign policy of the United States would best be described as isolationist. We pretty much keep to ourselves and don't worry about anything else that is going on in the world. During the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson (1912-1920), Wilson and others tried to get the United States more involved in world affairs. We would eventually get involved in World War I (a foreign war), but would not join the League of Nations (the predecessor to the UN). The United States would become isolationist again after the war.

In the late 1930's, there was a push by FDR and others to get us involved in the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia, which would later culminate in World War II. After World War II, President Truman started the Marshall Plan, a bold initiative to rebuild both our enemies and our allies for World War II to slow the spread of Communism.

From the end of World War II to the fall of the Soviet Union, the main thing to remember about US foreign policy was prevent the spread of and defeat communism. The United States supported many brutal and terrible regimes during this time because these regimes were not communist.

During the Clinton administration, foreign policy was a bit jumbled as we begin to shift to a more global economy. Since 9/11, the main foreign policy objective has been the war on terror.

I would strongly suggest looking into these things in more detail. Look at the United States actions in Korea, Vietnam, the Apollo program, our relationship with Cuba, Iran, and Iraq. There are many smaller aspects that I have failed to mention that might be useful to you.

Answer 2

America is a nation of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy. Its ruling elite class is buttressed by the poor and working people who have been rendered politically impotent by the allure of conspicuous consumption (which further enriches the elite), the illusion of democracy, and the extremely remote possibility that one of them could be the next Bill Gates.

According to Kinzer’s historical analysis, the United States cut its imperial fangs on Mexico in the 1840’s, but Hawaii marked America’s initial push beyond the North American continent. Two American missionaries, Amos Starr Cooke and Samuel Castle zealously worked to convert native Hawaiian “savages” into “civilized” Christians, but eventually abandoned their missionary work for the profits of the sugar trade. Cooke and Castle were the fathers of the White American aristocracy in Hawaii. This group eventually came to wield powerful economic and political influence on the islands by virtue of the huge sugar plantations they owned. Manipulation of a pliable Hawaiian monarch whom they had educated enabled them to engineer land reform which stripped indigenous people of their traditional communal form of land ownership.

On January 17, 1893 the Marines landed in Hawaii with a small contingency. In a bloodless coup, the 6220 Whites (on an archipelago populated by 41,000 native Hawaiians and 28,000 Asian laborers) seized control of the government and appointed none other than Sanford Dole (cousin to pineapple magnate James Dole) to lead. By 1897 the United States had formally annexed Hawaii.


Wearing its cloak of benevolence, America is an abstract embodiment of the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing. Governed by avaricious profiteers produced and enabled by a ruthless system that brings out the worst in humanity, the United States is a predacious nation innocently posing as a bastion of human rights and democracy.

Answer 3

No. Go Google or else your allowance gets cut off.