Question

What foreign policies today can be traced to foreign policies created after the Civil War?

Determine two to three (2-3) international events from the past five years that can be traced back to a foreign policy created after the Civil War.

Answer 1

To investigate the nature of current foreign policy, the logical source is the State Department, whose job it is to define and direct it. Foreign policy goals include the following:

Preserving the national security of the United States
Promoting world peace and a secure global environment
Maintaining a balance of power among nations
Working with allies to solve international problems
Promoting democratic values and human rights
Furthering cooperative foreign trade and global involvement in international trade organizations
Examining these goals closely reveals that they are based on cooperation with other nations, although "preserving the national security of the United States" implies possible competition and conflict.
George Washington's Farewell Address in 1789 contained one major piece of advice to the country regarding relations with other nations: "avoid entangling alliances." Those words shaped United States foreign policy for more than a century.
Today some Americans think that Washington's words are still wise ones, and that the United States should withdraw from world affairs whenever possible. In truth, however, the United States has been embroiled in world politics throughout the 20th century, and as a result, foreign policy takes up a great deal of government's time, energy, and money.
If isolationism has become outdated, what kind of foreign policy does the United States follow? In the years after World War II, the United States was guided generally by containment