Nov 26, 2024

The Elmira College Graduate and Professional Studies Catalog 2024-2025 Academic Year

HIS 5255 - Twentieth Century American Foreign Policy

credits: 3.0
This course will examine the major aspects of American foreign policy from the rise of imperialism in the 1890’s to the collapsed of world communism in the 1990’s. Topics that will be examined are American imperialism, World War I, American between the wares, World War II, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the recognition of China, American and the Middle East, American policy in the Caribbean, during the postwar period, and Reagan, Gorbachev and the decline of Cold War tensions.