SAT US History: Cause And Effect In U.S. Foreign Policy From 1899 To The Present

The sinking of the RMS Lusitania The resumption of submarine attacks on commercial ships by Germany Intellectual and elite support for the British war effort The Zimmerman telegram, offering German military support to Mexico for an invasion of America The Russian Revolution in October 1917 Wolfowitz Doctrine Roosevelt Doctrine Kellogg-Briand Pact Stimson Doctrine Monroe Doctrine American support of Shah Reza Pahlavi American troops and officers being stationed across the Middle East, including Iran distrust of Americans throughout the Middle East the Islamic Revolution in Iran of 1979 negotiations between Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini and President Jimmy Carter A moral duty, on the part of Americans, to protect the free nations of Western Europe from German occupation The fear of a German Empire in Europe that would undermine United States’ political and economic interests The threat of rising communism in a post-war world and the need for the United States to interfere and quell that trend The resumption of Germany’s program of unrestricted submarine warfare Cultural affinity for the English a further delineation of America's full neutrality during World War II the end American neutrality in World War II the cooling of hostilities with Nazi Germany before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the furtherance of United States opposition to Great Britain's war aims a reinforcement of the American policy of non-interventionism None of these The assassination of the Black Hand by Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s secret assassin butler The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a member of the Black Hand The assassination of Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of Iwo Jima The Burma Campaign The bombing of Hiroshima Dwight D. Eisenhower's Lyndon B. Johnson's Jimmy Carter's Richard M. Nixon's John F. Kennedy's That America viewed Berlin as an unimportant entity during the Cold War. That Berlin’s people were on their own in their fight against Communism. That Kennedy and America stood in solidarity with the citizens of Berlin, who were in a Western Enclave in East Germany, and therefore on the front lines against Communism in the Cold War. That Kennedy was willing to visit East Berlin, but refused to visit West Berlin. That anyone from Berlin could choose to move to the Soviet Union. To stimulate the depressed economies of former Empire in South America, Africa and Asia against Soviet incursion To provide aid and military assistance to Communist countries should they agree to embrace Capitalism and Democracy To re-build the United States military to meet the post-war threats of China and the Soviet Union To re-build the economies and societies of Western Europe, in order to make Communism less appealing To underwhelm the political discourse in the Soviet Union in an attempt to remove Stalin and the Bolsheviks from power