Foreign+Policy


 * Foreign Policy** is defined as the diplomatic policy of a nation in its interactions with other nations. This includes the strategies countries use to promote national interests and to achieve goals such as how a country will act with respect to other countries politically, socially, economically, and militarily.

Geographic location of the United States, like that of all countries, has played a significant role in developing its foreign policy. One reason is that the country’s survival depends on its ability to protect itself from potential enemies. U.S. presidents have always considered the nation’s location as they made foreign policy decisions.

These are some of the foreign policy issues the young American nation dealt with:

• explain the importance of geography in shaping U.S. foreign policy. • take a well-reasoned stand on foreign policy dilemmas faced by Presidents Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. • define and explain the importance of isolationism, Washington’s farewell address, and the Monroe Doctrine. • describe the causes, major events, and consequences of the War of 1812. • understand how foreign policy decisions from 1789 to 1823 set the tone for future U.S. foreign policy.

What do you see here? What is in the middle of the graphic organizer? What is the eagle holding in its talons on the left side? What is the eagle holding in its talons on the right side? What do the symbols in the talons represent? Explain the terms isolationism and involvement. How do the symbols relate to the spectrum ranging from isolationism to involvement?

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