Dawes Plan 1924 The Dawes Plan was an attempt following WWI

for the Triple Entente to collect war reparations debt from Germany.

Allied occupation of the Ruhr industrial area contributed to the hyperinflation crisis in Germany - disabling effect on the German economy.

provided for an end to the Allied occupation + staggered payment plan for Germany's payment of war reparations

Dawes won the Nobel Peace prize for ending an intl crisis

interim measure - proved unworkable. The Young Plan was adopted in 1929 to replace it.

Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 1928 intl agreement - signatory states promised not

to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them“.

Parties failing to abide by this promise "should be denied the benefits furnished by this treaty". It was signed by Germany, France and the United States on August 27, 1928, and by most other nations soon after.

Sponsored by France and the U.S., the Pact renounced the use of war and called for the peaceful settlement of disputes.

Similar provisions were incorporated into the UN Charter and other treaties and it became a stepping stone to a more activist American policy.

1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to

record levels (including 75 farm products) Hoover’s attempt, against the advice of all economists

to protect American farmers from international competition by raising agricultural tariffs.

Record high rates of this tariff probably had little impact on domestic prices or on overseas exporters

US exports cut in half between 1930 and 1932 Some view the Act, and the ensuing retaliatory tariffs

by U.S. trading partners, as responsible for reducing American exports and imports by more than half.

According to Ben Bernanke, "Economists still agree that Smoot-Hawley and the ensuing tariff wars were highly counterproductive and contributed to the depth and length of the global Depression."

Stimson Doctrine 1931 Policy of the U.S. government enunciated in a note of January 7,

1932, to Japan and China, of non-recognition of international territorial changes that were executed by force.

Named after Henry L. Stimson, U.S. Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration (1929–1933), the policy followed Japan's unilateral seizure of Manchuria in northeastern China following action by Japanese soldiers at Mukden in 1931.

The doctrine was also invoked by U.S. Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles in a declaration of July 23, 1940, that announced non-recognition of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of the three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania —and remained the official U.S. position until the Baltic states regained independence in 1991.

Not the first time the U.S. had used non-recognition as a political tool or symbolic statement. President Wilson had refused to recognize the Mexican Revolutionary governments in 1913 and Japan's 21 demands upon China in 1915

Extract from the Stimson Doctrine

...the American Government deems it to be its duty to notify both the Imperial Japanese Government and the Government of the Chinese Republic that it cannot admit the legality of any situation de facto nor does it intend to recognize any treaty or agreement entered into between those Governments, or agents thereof, which may impair the treaty rights of the United States or its citizens in China, including those that relate to the sovereignty, the independence, or the territorial and administrative integrity of the Republic of China, or to the international policy relative to China, commonly known as the open door policy…

Good Neighbor Policy 1933 Roosevelt’s new approach to Latin America Inter-American Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay,

December 1933, Secretary of State Cordell Hull signed a formal convention declaring: “No state has the right to intervene in the internal or external

affairs of another.” FDR attempted to win friends in Latin & South

America. This occurred after the “Roosevelt Corollary to the

Monroe Doctrine” (Teddy Roosevelt) U.S. interference was resented in the region in the

early 1900’s. Panama Canal Virgin Islands

Recognition of the USSR 1933

Relations characterized by mutual hostilities since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917

The U.S. extended its embargo of Germany to include Russia, and orchestrated a series of covert actions against Soviet Russia, including secretly funding its enemies. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing yearned for a military dictatorship for Russia, of the type General Kornilov attempted to establish in 1917.

The United States sent troops to Siberia in 1918 to protect its interests from Cossacks with the United States landing thousands of troops at Vladivostok and at Arkhangelsk

November 16, 1933 The United States and the Soviet Union established formal diplomatic relations

President Roosevelt wrote to Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, "I am very happy to inform you that as a result of our conversations, the Government of the United States has decided to establish normal diplomatic relations with the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and to exchange Ambassadors.”

Neutrality Acts 1935-39Aim: limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were

based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies.

1935 Act banned munitions exports to belligerents and restricted American travel on belligerent ships.

1936 Act banned loans to belligerents.1937 Act extended these provisions to civil wars and

gave the president discretionary authority to restrict nonmunitions sales to a “cash‐and‐carry” basis

1939 banned U.S. ships from carrying goods or passengers to belligerent ports but allowed the U.S. to sell munitions, although on a “cash‐and‐carry” basis

Cash and Carry 1939

Cash and carry policy requested by FDR at a special session of

Congress on September 21, 1939. replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1939. The revision

allowed the sale of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation.

Though "cash and carry" concepts had been introduced in the Neutrality Act of 1936, it only pertained to materials that could not be used in war efforts.

Lend-Lease 1941 The “cash and carry” not an effective measure after

Germany began invading its neighbors. After the fall of the Low Countries (Belgium and the

Netherlands) and the invasion and capitulation of France, Roosevelt lobbied for the introduction of Lend-Lease

a plan in which the European allies didn't have to pay cash or arrange transportation any longer. Instead, the U.S. would demand payment at a later time.

program under which the U.S. supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France and other Allied nations with material between 1941 and August 1945.

Ended the US pretense of neutrality in the war

Five times U.S. has declared war:

Britain 1812 Mexico 1848 Spain 1898 WWI 1917 WWII 1941

III. The Post-War World: The United States Disseminates its Power in a Bi-Polar World

A.) The United States in the world in 1945-1949

Collective Security—A system in which participating nations agree to take joint action to meet any threat to, or attack on another member.

*Idea helped to create the U.N. in 1945. Deterrence---Policy of making America & its allies

so strong that its very strength will deter (prevent) any attack.

 

Truman Doctrine

Greece & Turkey are on verge of collapse to communism and Truman is forced to make a momentous decision

Truman Doctrine Policy of containment is

introduced (Keenan) Communism is evil and it must

not be allowed to spread 1947, Truman requested a

massive program of economic & military aid to Europe

Marshall Plan Part of the Truman doctrine Marshall Plan: billions of dollars given to

European nations to help them rebuild and survive Help keep communism isolated Aid given to Ally and Axis nations Develop potential markets for US products in

Europe

Marshall Plan Aid

to Europe1948-1952

Creation of the NSC and CIA National Security Act of 1947 creates the

Department of Defense Pentagon is built National Security Council is created to advise

the President NSC–68 allowed for the President to quadruple

military spending Peacetime draft is created

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CIA

Three major tasks: 1. To coordinate the information

gathering activities of all State, Defense, & other federal agencies involved in the areas of foreign affairs & national defense.

2. To analyze & evaluate all data collected by those agencies.

3. To brief the President & NSC.

CIA conducts worldwide intelligence operations.

Espionage—Spying Much of work in secret---budget is

disguised.

CIA

Berlin Blockade---Split of Berlin into four sectors (Soviet, U.S., British, French.)

1948, Soviets tried to force the other nations out, with a land blockade.

U.S. airlift for 1 ½ years.

Berlin Airlift 1948-1949

NATO Created in 1949 A defensive

alliance to protect from Soviet aggression An attack on one is

an attack on all Warsaw pack is the

Soviet response US gets entangled

in a foreign alliance

US hegemony by consensus

The Rio Pact The Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal

Assistance (commonly known as the Rio Treaty, the Rio Pact) was an agreement signed on 1947 in Rio de Janeiro among many countries of America.

The central principle contained in its articles is that an attack against one is to be considered an attack against them all; this was known as the "hemispheric defense" doctrine.

Cuban missile crisis; Falklands War, September 11, 2001

Mexico withdrew in 2002, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Venezuela withdrew in 2012

Vandenberg U.S. Senator modified internationalist, in favor of U.S.

membership on the World Court, but the situation in Europe moved him towards isolationism

his experiences during the Nye Committee hearings on the munitions industry, convinced him that entry into WWI had been a disastrous error

supported the isolationist Neutrality Acts of the 1930s

wanted and sponsored more severe bills designed to renounce all traditional neutral "rights" and restrict and prevent any action by the President that might cause the U.S. to be drawn into war.

One of the most effective of the diehard isolationists in the Senate

The Vandenberg Resolution 1945, delivered a celebrated speech heard round the

world in the Senate Chamber, publicly announcing his conversion from “isolationism” to “internationalism“

1947, at the start of the Cold War, Vandenberg became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. cooperated with the Truman administration in forging bipartisan support for the Truman doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO, including presenting the critical Vandenberg resolution.

The Vandenberg Resolution – landmark action that opened the way to the negotiation of the

North Atlantic Treaty. concept of such an alliance first arose during the Pentagon

Talks in Washington in March American action would have been stymied without the Senate

action endorsing an internationalist role for the United States

B.) 1950- 1961 U.S. Unilateral Intervention

Hydrogen Bomb 1952 used the heat generated by a fission bomb to

compress and ignite a nuclear fusion stage greatly increased explosive power.

Concept first developed and used in 1952 and has since been used in most of the world's nuclear weapons

first test of a hydrogen bomb prototype was the “Ivy Mike" nuclear test in 1952 conducted by the U.S.

The first ready-to-use thermonuclear bomb “”RDS-6s" ("Joe 4") was tested on August 12, 1953, in the Soviet Union

The Middle East

The U.S. in Iran 1953 Coup d’état orchestrated by the U.S. and the

UK CIA published a false report to spark the coup Prime Minister Mossedegh overthrown

Attempted to reduce power of the Shah – instate democracy

Nationalize Iranian oil industry (owned by Anglo-Iranian company)

Latin America The U.S., United Fruit

Company and and Guatemala 1954

U.S. support of Latin American dictators Kissinger, Secretary of State and

Augusto Pinochet, dictator of Chili, 1976

CIA support of coup d’état against socialist government of Salvador Allende

1954 Geneva Conference

US (along with France, UK, USSR & China) involved in talks to discuss outstanding issues: Korean Peninsula Unifying Vietnam Peace settlement in Indochina:

Laos Cambodia Vietnam

Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 13 days world on the brink of nuclear war U2 spy planes detected Soviet arms build-

up by 1962 (intermediate range missiles in Cuba)

Kennedy ordered a naval blockade Prepared to invade Cuba Talks between JFK & Krushchev, US tradeoff proposal: Soviets agreed to

withdraw missiles from Cuba and US agreed to withdraw missile from Turkey

Latin America

Korean War 1950 US foreign policy change: containment

roll back South Korea(non-communist) attacked by

North Korea (communist) War lasted three years, but peace terms

never agreed upon. U.S./South Korea (UN) vs. North

Korea/China After much back and forth manoeuvers,

border remained the same as beginning of war: 38th parallel

Asia

Vietnam War Really started in 1954, not 1965. Ended in 1975. U.S. rescued the French & the South

Vietnamese, but sunk themselves.

After Vietnam, the Nixon administration embarked on a policy of détente.

Détente--- “a relaxation of tensions.” Wanted to improve relations w/Soviet

Union & China. Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

Persian Gulf War---1991 Campaign to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. International coalition, led by the U.S.,

launched Operation Desert Storm. War ended less than six weeks later.

Armed Conflict

The Gulf War 1991 Desert Shield /

Desert Storm Iraqi invasion of

Kuwait

GEORGE H. W. BUSHFOURTY-FIRST PRESIDENT

1989-1993

President, George H. W. Bush, is

known for assembling the United Nations to send troops to the Gulf War when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. The operation known as Desert Shield, was to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait and ensure that Iraq did not invade Saudi Arabia. President Bush claimed that his position when he said, “This aggression will not stand,” and “ This is not a war for oil. This is war against aggression” After weeks of air bombardment and 100 hours of a land battle named Desert storm, allied troops over ran Iraq's million-man army.

                     

TIMELIINE

August 2, 1990-Iraq invades Kuwait

August 7, 1990-President George Bush launches "Operation Desert Shield", sending American troops to try to stop an Iraqi attack on Saudi Arabia. First U.S. Fighter plains arrive in Saudi Arabia.

January 16-17, 1991-The air war begins. Bombers and cruise missiles strike at power plants and other important targets. Iraq attacks Israel with scud missiles .This air war last 42 days.

February 24, 1991-Allied ground assault begins. Iraqis leave Kuwait igniting an estimated 700 oil wells in Kuwait

February 28, 1991-Conclusion of war declared after 100 hours.

•34 countries contributed to helping Kuwait

• U.S. was 73% of the 956,600 troops

• Soviet Union supplied Iraq with missiles

• Arab nations allied with the U.S.

“I can’t say enough about the Army and Marine divisions. If I used words like brilliant, it would really be an under-description of the absolutely superb job they did in breaching the so-called impenetrable barrier. Absolutely superb textbook operation and I think it will be studied for many years to come as the way to do it”

Quote by

“General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.”

•1988, promoted to General and was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Central Command•prepared a detailed plan for the defence of the oil fields of the Persian Gulf against an invasion by Iraq. •Schwarzkopf's plan was used as the basis for Operation Desert Storm. •His operational plan was the "left hook" strategy that went into Iraq behind the Iraqi forces who were occupying Kuwait.•widely credited with bringing the ground war to a close in just four days.

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

AFTER THE WAR

At the end of the 100 hour-ground war in the gulf, America's leaders and military leaders basked in what appeared to be a success. Certainly in comparison with the gloomy predictions to the pre-war period, the military victory seemed good. Although American leaders remained unclear about their positions for post-war Iraq. They had failed to destroy Saddam's Republican Guard Divisions, which immediately set about destroying Shiite rebels in the south and they were uncertain about Saddam's potential to threaten his neighbours, America's allies.

IV. The United States in the World since the end of the Cold War: The

Hyper-Power as World Police

A.)The U.S. as World Arbitrator:

The Washington Accords 1993 also known as the Oslo Accords

officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP)

an attempt in 1993 to set up a framework that would lead to the resolution of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict

first face-to-face agreement between the govt of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Department of Homeland Security

Charged w/ the task of protecting the U.S. from terrorism.

Terrorism—The use of violence to intimidate a government or society, usually for political or ideological reasons.

Created in 2002, operational in 2003. Responsible for the coordination & the

direction of all antiterrorist activities of all public agencies operating in the field of domestic security.

Homeland Security Act of 2002

Gives the Homeland Security Department major operating responsibilities in five specific areas:

1. Border & transportation security 2. Infrastructure protection 3. Emergency preparedness &

response 4. Chemical, biological, radiological, &

nuclear defense 5. Information analysis

Since 9/11

foreign policy has had to focus on terrorism and what to do with nations that have harbored terrorists

Superpower status in a unipolar world still leaves the U.S. vulnerable both here and abroad to terrorist attacks

Al Qaida “Axis of Evil”----consisting of Iraq, Iran,

North Korea.

Reading Assignments Part 2Mastering Modern World History by Norman Lowe

Part 1 War and International Relations 8. The Spread of Communism outside Europe and its effects on international relations, pp.

142-168 9. The United Nations Organization, pp. 170-190 Part IV The United States of America 22.4 The impact of war and the Russian revolutions, pp. 465-466 23.4 Nixon and Watergate; Foreign Policy, p. 496. Jimmy Carter, pp. 497. Reagan and

foreign policy problems, pp. 499

The Unfinished Nation by Alan Brinkley Chapter 28: America in a World at War: The Pacific Offensive, p. 743 The Manhattan Project and Atomic Warfare, p. 744 Debating the Past: The decision to drop the atomic bomb, p. 745-748 Chapter 31: the ordeal of liberalism Flexible Response and the Cold War, pp. 824-827 The Agony of Vietnam, pp. 827-830 Chapter 32: The Crisis of Authority Nixon, Kissinger, and the War, pp. 860-865 Chapter 33: From the Age of Limits to the Age of Reagan Human Rights and National Interests, pp. 882-883 The Year of the Hostages, pp. 883-884 Reagan and the World, pp. 895-896 The Bush Presidency & the Gulf War, pp. 901-904