Essay Assignment: U.S. DIPLOMACY
1) Explain the period of the late 1800s into the early 1900s as America transitioned to a world power. Cover Blaine's State Department, America's widening role in the Asia Pacific, the road to the Spanish-American war and the follow-on war for independence (the "insurrection") in the Philippines as well as America's emergence as a great power.
2) Relate the period of America's diplomacy from President Teddy Roosevelt's "Big Stick" foreign policy to President Wilson's "New Diplomacy" including Wilson's initial policy of "waging neutrality", the nation's road to war in WWI, the Versailles treaty episode, and the interwar years leading up to WWII.
3) Examine the period (about 1929 to 1953) of American diplomacy leading up to WWII, the war years, and the aftermath Korean War. Explain America's economic foreign policy, the encounters with Japan, the road to Pearl Harbor, WWII, the UN, and Korea. Outline the general role of the world's dictators (Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese Imperial nation) in bringing the world to war. Briefly define the Marshall Plan, the opening of the nuclear age, and the TRUCE in Korea.
4) Frame the period of American diplomacy beginning with the Cold War, the rise of world Communism, America's Vietnam War, and beyond. Address such issues as Nuclearism, superpower competition, the slippery slope from JFK's "advisors", thru LBJ's "ordeal" of the Vietnam War, to Nixon & Kissinger, China, and the aftermath.
5) Summarize the period of American diplomacy from the end of the Vietnam War, into the end of the Cold War and beyond, with a brief overview of the administrations of Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, and Trump to the present day.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.