Constitutional Period
British Colonial Administration
1607 - 1775
The Mayflower Compact
1620
State Administration
1775 - 1781
The Articles of Confederation
1781 - 1789
The Federalist Papers are published
1787 - 1788
The Constitutional Era
1789 - 2012
Presidencies and Executive Orders
Washington's Farewell Address
1796
The Tyler Doctrine speech
1842
Polk's Inaugural Address
1845
The Open Door Policy
1899
The Big Stick Speech
1901
The Roosevelt Corollary
1904
The Dollar Diplomacy Period
1909 - 1913
The New Nationalism speech
1910
The Stimson Doctrine
1932
The Good Neighbor Policy
1934
The Quarantine Speech
1937
The Cash and Carry Speech
1939
The Four Freedoms Speech
1941
The Truman Doctrine speech
1947
The Domino Theory speech
1954
The Eisenhower Doctrine speech
1957
The Kennedy Doctrine speech
1961
The Alliance for Progress is proposed
1961
The Johnson Doctrine speech
1965
The Nixon Doctrine speech
1969
The Reagan Doctrine speech
1981
The Clinton Doctrine speech
1999
The Bush Doctrine published
2002
Congresses and Foreign Policy Legislation
Adoption of the Articles of Confederation
1781
Adoption of the Constitution
1789
The Neutrality Act of 1794
1794
The Alien and Sedition Acts
1798
The Embargo Act of 1807
1807
The Non-Intercourse Act
1809
Reconstruction Begins
1865
The Chinese Exclusion Act
1882
The Teller Amendment
1898
The Trading With the Enemy Act
1917
The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
1930
The Neutrality Act of 1935
1935
The Neutrality Act of 1936
1936
The Quarantine Act of 1937
1937
Foreign Agents Registration Act
1938
The Neutrality Act of 1939
1939
The Quarantine Act of 1939
1939
International Organizations Immunities Act
1945
The United Nations Participation Act
1945
The Anglo-American Loan Agreement
1946
The Marshall Plan begins
1948
The Mutual Security Act
1951
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
1961
The Fulbright-Hays Act
1961
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964
The Case-Church Amendment
1973
The War Powers Act of 1973
1973
Foreign Assistance Act of 1974
1974
The Hughes-Ryan Amendment
1974
The Jackson–Vanik Amendment
1974
The Jackson-Vanik Amendment
1974
The Arms Export Control Act
1976
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
1977
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
1978
The Taiwan Relations Act
1979
The Caribbean Basin Initiative
1984
The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act
1986
The Military Force Against Iraq Resolution
1991
The Cuban Democracy Act
1992
Iran and Libya Sanctions Act
1996
The RP-US Visiting Forces Act
1999
The Taiwan Security Enhancement Act
2000
The African Growth and Opportunity Act
2000
The Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act
2000
Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Terrorists
2001
The Iraq War Resolution
2002
Global Antisemitism Review Act
2004
The Belarus Democracy Act
2004
Darfur Peace and Accountability Act
2006
Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
2007
FISA Amendments Act of 2008
2008
Supreme Courts and Judicial Decisions
The Jay Court
1789 - 1795
The Ellsworth Court
1795 - 1801
The Marshall Court
1801 - 1835
Foster & Elam v. Neilson
1829
The Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
1831
Worchester v. Georgia
1832
The Taney Court
1835 - 1864
United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad
1841
The Chase Court
1864 - 1873
United States v. Klein
1871
The Waite Court
1873 - 1888
The Head Money Cases
1884
The Fuller Court
1888 - 1910
Botiller v. Dominguez
1889
United States v. Wong Kim Ark
1898
United States v. Wang Kim Ark
1898
The Lochner Era
1899 - 1937
The White Court
1910 - 1921
Selective Draft Law Cases
1918
The Taft Court
1921 - 1930
Whitney v. California
1927
The Hughes Court
1930 - 1941
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation
1936
United States v. Belmont
1937
The Stone Court
1941 - 1946
United States v. Pink
1942
Korematsu v. United States
1944
United States v. Lovett
1946
The Vinson Court
1946 - 1953
Woods v. Cloyd W. Miller Co.
1948
Woods v. Cloyd W. Miller Co.
1948
Johnson v. Eisentrager
1950
Johnson v. Eisentrager
1950
American Communications Assn. v. Douds
1950
Dennis v. United States
1951
Adler v. Board of Education of the City of New York
1952
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
1952
The Warren Court
1953 - 1969
Pennsylvania v. Nelson
1956
Ullmann v. United States
1956
Slochower v. Board of Higher Education of New York City
1956
Watkins v. United States
1957
Barenblatt v. United States
1959
Scales v. United States
1961
Communist Party v.. Subversive Activities Control Bd. No. 12
1961
Aptheker v. Secretary of State
1964
Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board
1965
United States v. Brown
1965
Keyishian v. Board of Regents
1967
Menominee Tribe v. United States
1968
The Burger Court
1969 - 1986
Welsh v. United States
1970
New York Times Co. v. United States
1971
United States v. United States District Court
1972
Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War
1974
Dames and Moore v. Regan
1981
The Rehnquist Court
1986 - 2005
The Roberts Court
2005 - 2013
Bureaucratic Evolution
The Kirkpatrick Doctrine essay is published
1981
The Powell Doctrine enunciated
1990
The Contract with America is enunciated
1994
Wars, Military Expeditions, & Occupations
The American Revolution
1775 - 1783
The Chicamauga War
1776 - 1794
Little Turtle's War
1785 - 1795
The Quasi-War
1798 - 1800
The First Barbary War
1801 - 1805
The Chesapeake–Leopard Affair
1807
The Little Belt Affair
1811
Tecumseh's War
1811 - 1813
The War of 1812
1812 - 1815
The Creek War
1813 - 1814
The Second Barbary War
1815
The First Seminole War
1817 - 1818
The First Sumatran Expedition
1832
The Second Seminole War
1835 - 1842
The Second Creek War
1836
The Aroostook War
1838 - 1839
The Second Sumatran Expedition
1839
The Mary Carver Affair
1842
The Mexican-American War
1846 - 1848
The Perry Expedition of 1853
1853
The First Fiji Expedition
1855
The Second Fiji Expedition
1858
The American Civil War
1861 - 1865
The Formosa Expedition
1867
The Rio de Janiero Affair
1894
The Spanish-American War
1898
The Philippine Insurrection
1899 - 1902
The Venezuela Affair
1902
The Santo Domingo Affair
1904
Occupation of Cuba
1906 - 1909
The US/Mexican Border Wars
1910 - 1919
The Pacho Villa Expeditions
1914 - 1917
Occupation of Haiti
1915 - 1934
Occupation of the Dominican Republic
1916 - 1924
The First World War (US participation)
1917 - 1918
The American intervention in the Russian Revolution
1918 - 1922
Occupation of Nicaragua
1923 - 1928
The Second World War (US participation)
1941 - 1945
The Korean War
1950 - 1953
The Vietnamese-American War
1955 - 1975
Occupation of the Dominican Republic
1965 - 1966
The First Iraqi-American War
1990 - 1991
The US Expedition in Somalia
1992 - 1993
Occupation of Haiti
1994 - 1995
The Kosovo War
1998 - 1999
The Afghani-American War
2001 - 2012
The Second Iraqi-American War
2003 - 2011
Other Significant Events
Winthrop's "City Upon a Hill" Sermon
1630
The Treaty of Westphalia
1646
The King's Proclamation Line of 1763
1763
The Declaration of Independence
1776
The XYZ Affair
1797 - 1798
The Louisiana Purchase
1803
The West Floridian annexation
1810
The Floridian annexation
1819
The Texan Revolution
1835 - 1836
The Texan Annexation
1845
Alta California annexation
1848
The Gadsden Purchase
1854
The Emancipation Proclamation
1863
The Alaskan Purchase
1867
"The United States Looking Outward" published
1890
The Baltimore Crisis
1891
The Hawai'ian annexation
1898
The Boxer Rebellion
1899 - 1901
The Zimmerman Telegraph
1917
The League of Nations founded
1919
The Washington Conference
1921
The Lausanne Conference of 1932
1932
The Ludlow Amendment movement
1935 - 1940
The Lend-Lease Program begins
1941
The International Monetary Fund is established
1944
The Bretton Woods Period
1944 - 1971
Beginning of the Cold War
1945
The Yalta Conference
1945
The United Nations founded
1945
"Sources of Soviet Conduct" is published
1946
The Greek Civil War
1946 - 1949
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development founded
1948
The Berlin Airlift
1948 - 1949
The Hungarian Uprising
1956
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
1964
The Brezhnev Doctrine is enunciated
1968
Soviet-American Détente Begins
1971
The Soviet-American Détente
1971 - 1979
Sino-American Rapprochement
1971
SALT II talks
1972 - 1979
Soviet-American Détente Ends
1979
The Afghani-Soviet War
1979 - 1989
The September 11th Attacks
2011
Treaties, Protocols, and Memoranda
The Taunton Agreement
1671
The Treaty of Easton
1758
The Treaty of Paris of 1763
1763
The First Treaty of Fort Stanwix
1768
The Franco-American Treaty Separate and Secret
1778
The Franco-American Treaty of Alliance
1778
The Franco-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce
1778
The Declaration for Suspension of Arms and Cessations of Hostilities
1783
The Treaty of Paris of 1783
1783
The Second Treaty of Fort Stanwix
1784
The Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship
1786
The Convention of 1800
1800
The Second Treaty of Tripoli
1805
The Monroe–Pinkney Treaty
1806
The Rush-Bagot Treaty
1818
The Anglo-American Convention of 1818
1818
The Adams–Onís Treaty
1819
The Russo-American Treaty of 1824
1824
The First Hawai'ian-American Treaty
1826
The Siamese-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce
1833
The Webster–Ashburton Treaty
1842
The Treaty of Wanghia
1844
The Mallarino–Bidlack Treaty
1846
The Treaty of Cahuenga
1847
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago
1848
The Clayton–Bulwer Treaty
1850
The Canadian–American Reciprocity Treaty
1854
The Convention of Kanagawa
1854
The Harris Treaty of 1856
1856
The Treaty of Tianjin
1858
The Harris Treaty of 1858
1858
The First Geneva Convention
1864
The Burlingame Treaty
1868
The Bancroft Treaties are enacted
1868 - 1937
The Hawai’ian-American Treaty of Reciprocity
1875
The Berne Convention
1886
The Convention of 1889
1889
The Treaty of Hawai'ian Annexation
1897
The Treaty of Paris of 1898
1898
The First Hague Convention
1899
The Tripartite Convention of 1899
1899
The Hay–Pauncefote Treaty
1901
The Herrán-Hay Treaty
1903
The Hay-Banau Varilla Treaty
1903
The Treaty of Portsmouth
1904
The Taft–Katsura Agreement
1905
The Second Geneva Convention
1906
The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
1907
The Second Hague Convention
1907
The International Opium Convention
1912
The Bryan–Chamorro Treaty
1914
The Lansing–Ishii Agreement
1917
The Treaty of the Danish West Indies
1917
The Treaty of Versailles
1919
The Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine
1919
The Hungarian-American Treaty of Peace
1921
The Treaty of Berlin
1921
The Five-Power Treaty
1922
The Nine-Power Treaty
1922
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
1928
The Clark Memorandum
1928
The Third Geneva Convention
1929
The London Naval Treaty
1931
The Montevideo Convention
1933
The Treaty of Velasco
1936
The Atlantic Charter
1941
The Tehran Conference
1943
The Cairo Declaration
1943
The Moscow Conference Declaration
1943
The Casablanca Declaration
1943
The Chicago Convention
1944
The Bretton Woods Agreement
1944
The Mexican-American Treaty of 1944
1944
The United Nations Charter
1945
The Potsdam Declaration
1945
The Potsdam Agreement
1945
The Bermuda Agreement
1946
The Treaty of Manilla
1946
The Paris Treaties of 1947
1947
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
1947
The Universal Declaration on Human Rights
1948
The Genocide Convention
1948
The Charter of the Organization of American States
1948
The North Atlantic Treaty
1949
The Fourth Geneva Convention
1949
The Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty
1951
The Filipino-American Mutual Defense Treaty
1951
The Treaty of San Francisco
1951
The Convention on Refugees
1951
The Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty
1954
The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty
1954
The Austrian State Pact
1955
International Atomic Energy Agency Conference
1957
The 1958 US–UK Mutual Defense Agreement
1958
The Antarctic Treaty
1959
Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan
1960
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
1961
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
1961
The Columbia River Treaty
1961
The Nassau Agreement
1962
The Limited Test Ban Treaty
1963
The Hot-Line Memorandum
1963
The Chamizal Settlement of 1963
1963
The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
1963
The Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
1966
The Outer Space Treaty
1967
The Non-Proliferation Treaty
1968
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
1969
The Patent Cooperation Treaty
1970
The Boundary Treaty of 1970
1970
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances
1971
The Shanghai Communique
1972
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
1972
The Détente Joint Communique
1973
The Paris Peace Accords of 1973
1973
The Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War
1973
The Threshold Test Ban Treaty
1974
The Biological Weapons Convention
1975
The Helsinki Accords
1975
The Torrijos–Carter Treaties
1977
The Camp David Accords
1978
The Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations
1979
The Carter Doctrine speech
1980
The Geneva Convention on Conventional Weapons
1980
Convention Against Torture
1984
The Montreal Protocol
1987
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
1987
Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Convention
1988
The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany
1990
The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
1990
The Chemical Weapons Convention
1993
The Memorandum on Relations with Native American Tribal Governments
1994
The Dayton Agreement
1995
The World Trade Organization founded
1995
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty opened for signature
1996
Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage
1997
The Istanbul Protocol
1999
The Optional Protocol Child Slavery, Prostitution, and Pornography
2000
The Optional Protocol on Children in Armed Conflict
2000
The Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants
2000
The Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
2000
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons
2000
Russia withdraws from START II
2002
US withdraws from ABM
2002
The Treaty on Open Skies
2002
The Convention Against Corruption
2003