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SECTION SECTION 43 AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY OVERVIEW TEXT SUMMARY of hostile relations between the United For its first 150 years, U.S. foreign policy States and the Soviet Union. was based on isolationism. In 1823 the During the cold war, the United States Monroe Doctrine stated that the United supported a policy of containment, States would keep itself out of T H E BIG I D E A which said that if communism could be European affairs as well as that contained within its existing boundaries, European nations should stay Although the it would collapse under the weight of its out of the affairs of North and United States origiinternal weaknesses. As the United States South America. nally followed an withdrew from the Vietnam War, it began The United States was active isolationist policy, a policy of détente—“a relaxation of tenin the Western Hemisphere, it later became a sions”—that improved relations with the however. In the 1800s it began leader in world Soviet Union and China. expanding its territory. By winaffairs. The end of the cold war began when ning the Spanish-American War Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of in 1898, the United States the Soviet Union. U.S.-Soviet relations had gained colonial territories and began to improved significantly by the time the emerge as a world power. Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Since In the early 1900s, the United States then, some key events shaping U.S. foreign began forming more international relapolicy have occurred in the Middle East. tionships, such as that with China. World War II brought a final end GRAPHIC SUMMARY: The Changing to U.S. isolationism. Most Course of U.S. Foreign Policy nations at that point turned to the principle of Isolationist collective security, by which they agreed to act together against any nation that threatened • Territorial expansion helps establish the the peace. The United United States as a world power. States also took up a policy • World War II ends isolationism and of deterrence—building encourages a policy of collective security. military strength to dis• The cold war brings about the policies of courage attack. This policy deterrence, containment, and finally détente. began during the cold war—more than 40 years World Leader Certain events and policies have changed the United States from an isolationist nation into a leader in world events. REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What was the goal of deterrence? 94 CHAPTER 17 Guide to the Essentials 2. Diagram Skills What was the effect of U.S. territorial expansion? © Prentice-Hall, Inc.