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TAKS Foreign Policy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ended the Spanish-American War, gave the US and empire(Puerto Rico, Guam, and Philippines) | Treaty of Paris 1898 |
| 1902 Gave the US authority to intervene into Cuban affairs, if necessary, and to lease naval bases (Guantanamo Bay) | Platt Amendment |
| 1904 An extension of the Monroe Doctrine, under which the US said it had right to intervene militarily in order to protect its economic interests in western hemisphere | Roosevelt Corollary |
| 1903 US agreed to pay Panama for 10 mile strip of land through Panama; 1978 US and Panama agree to gradual return to Panama, must remain neutral and open to all nations | Panama Canal |
| 1918 Ended World War One, created the League of nations, was punishing towards Germany, forced Germany to pay reparations, redrew the map of Europe, one of the causes of World War Two | Treaty of Versailles |
| 1947 The US will defend free peoples from being overtaken by communists, applied in Greece and Turkey | Truman Doctrine |
| 1947 A massive American aid program to help European nations recover from World War Two; also helped prevent the spread of communism, cost $12 billion | Marshall Plan |
| 1948 a mutual defense treaty between nations of western and northern Europe, Canada, Iceland, and the US to defend Europe from the Soviet Union. CENTO and SEATO, similar defense agreements followed. | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
| 1955 Mutual defense alliance between the Soviet Union and the Communist nations in Eastern Europe- a counter to NATO | Warsaw Pact |
| 1993 Treaty between US & Soviet Union that barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere | Nuclear Test Ban Treaty |
| 1964 Authorized LBJ to increase American military involvement in Vietnam | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| 1969 For the first time the two superpowers agreed to limit the production of nuclear weapons-crucial first step to ending the arms race | SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) |
| 1978 a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, negotiated with the help of Jimmy Carter | Camp David Accords |
| 1993 Lowered tariffs & brought Mexico into the free trade zone established by the US and Canada | NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) |
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