Foreign Policy: Pick three topics related to foreign policy you are most confident in your knowledge of & fill out this table for those three. Topic: Foreign Policy Historical Circumstance Action Taken Impact (Effects) Bay of Pigs Invasion & Cuban Missile Crisis -Fidel Castro New Dictator of Cuba Friendly to Communist ideas -Cuba 90 Miles off coast/Western Hemisphere -Eisenhower to JFK Containment Cold war foreign policies differ -US Defeated in Covert attempt to oust Castro _Newly Elected JFK embarrassed in failed attempt -MBM placed in Russia Leads to 13 days of Cuban Missile Crisis -Possible WWIII Easing of tension between Super power -US removes missiles in Turkey/USSR remove missiles in Cuba -US Cuba relations stall -Recent with Pres Obama Neutrality to/Lend - Lease Acts -Pres. FDR wants to honor promise to American people and keep American Boys from war. -Also wants to support biggest ally in GB -yrs leading to WWII US followed strict policy of Neutrality. Selling only to friendly peaceful nations. -Cash and Carry- US supplied weapons only if allied nation paid in cash -Policy Shifts to US delivering tanks and munitions to allie G attacked US military base in Hawaii; US enters war. Monroe Doctrine & Roosevelt Corollary -Age of Imperialism Europe had many different colonies in North America or what was originally thought of as the “new world” -US wants the Western Hemisphere and emerged as a global power US Desires to prevent further Colonization of US -constant threat of foreign influence over the American continent Pres. James Monroe -Create stability, order & Prosperity in the W. Hemp. -Cuba - Spanish American War “Splendid War” -Panama - Panama Canal - Open door policy -Transforms US into “International Police” - when is chaos in a nation or a nation is really doing the wrong thing for their people - and only in the Western Hemisphere -Switch in FP from neutrality to the aggressors aggressors.
Social Change: Muckrakers Progressive Era due to rapid industrialization, led to many social problems -A writer or photographer who exposed problems in society, business and/or government. Robber Barons Monopolies Upton Sinclair His book The Jungle exposed dangers in the meatpacking industry. Jacob Riis His book of photographs called How The Other Half Lives exposed poor living conditions in U.S. cities. Pure Food and Drug Act- Meat Inspection Act -regulate the meat packing industry and protect consumers from eating tainted meat. 16th/17th Amendments Political Change: Dred Scott v. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of ed., -1857 suggested that African Americans enslaved or free were not citizens of the United States -slavery Focal point of southern economy. Based on growing Rice/cotton -Sectionalism/ Civil War -Jim Crow Laws- Rampant discrimination -Separate but -Segregation- Separate but equal inherently unjust -NAACP KKK Lynching Ida B. Wells-Strange Fruit Plessy challenged 14th Amendment. -SCOTUS Distinction between races exist -Every Govt in the south enforces segregation laws. laws were passed that restricted African American travel, housing, schools, use of private and public facilities, amusement parks and other recreational areas. Civil Disobedience 60s -Dr. King Voter rights Pave the Way for Civil rights activist of 60s -Sharecropping system -Mass Terrorism -Unequal structures -Great Migration -Jackie Robinson -Civil Rights Economic Change: Industrialization -shifted from agrarian economy to industrialization -Rapid Industrialization -Robber of Industry -Carnegie/Morgan/Vanderbilt/ Rockefeller -Social Darwinism/Laissez Faire Corporations (businesses owned by st/Capital could be raised by sale of stocks/Monopolies/Trusts- when a business has most or all the business in an industry/Many people feared monopolies were too powerful/Limited competition, control consumer prices/Too much influence on government (bribes; graft -Poor Working Conditions -cheap labor -Monopolies -Low Paw -Govt Corruption -Unsafe food -Pollution