A diplomatic history of the American people Factors forces and functions The colonial backdrop The diplomacy of the French alliance 1775 1778 The diplomacy of peace with Britain 1778 1783 Foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation Embroilments with Britain 1789 1795 Friction with France 1789 1800 Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1801 1803 Jefferson and neutral woes 1803 1809 Blundering into war with Britain 1809 1812 The Truce of Ghent and after 1812 1818 Acquiring the Floridas 1803 1821 America and the Monroe Doctrine 1815 1825 The awkward age of diplomacy 1825 1840 Britain and the Webster Ashburton Treaty The Oregon dispute and its settlement The annexation of Texas War and peace with Mexico The ferment of the fifties America and Cuba to 1860 The dawn of Asiatic interests The early crises of the Civil War The collapse of King Cotton diplomacy Napoleon III and Mexico The Caribbean and Alaska 1865 1867 Great Britain and the Grant era 1865 1877 Diplomacy a football of politics 1877 1889 Blaine and spirited diplomacy 1889 1893 Samoa and Hawaii : an imperialistic preview Anglo American tensions and the Venezuela crisis The coming of the war with Spain 1895 1898 America as a great power 1898 1900 Canal Zone diplomacy 1900 1921 Big stick diplomacy 1901 1909 Theodore Roosevelt and the Far East Taft and dollar diplomacy Wilson and the new diplomacy 1913 1917 Waging neutrality 1914 1915 The road to World War I 1915 1917 Negotiating the Treaty of Versailles The retreat to isolationism 1919 1935 The Far East and disarmament 1917 1938 Economic foreign policy between wars 1919 1939 Good neighbors south and north 1917 1941 Japan neutrality and the dictators 1923 1939 World War II : through lend lease 1939 1941 The road to Pearl Harbor Diplomacy for victory 1941 1945 Founding the United Nations 1941 1945 The rift with the Soviets 1945 1947 The Cold War 1947 1950 Communism and the Korean conflict World tensions and the Middle East crisis The end of the Eisenhower era New frontier diplomacy The ordeal of Lyndon Johnson Nixonian foreign policy The Kissinger era Carter and humanitarian diplomacy Epilogue : From colonies to Colossus