1. History of US Global Politics
Meeting 2
History of
US Global Politics

2. Terms Geopolitics Global Politics
US Politicians have different definitions on geopolitics.
Henry Kissinger
Collin Gray: every foreign politic is geopolitics
In general, geopolitics is a (foreign) policy based on the geographical motives.

3. History
History of US Foreign Policy
History of US Global Politics

4. Categorized in two (within two)
Geopolitics
Isolationism
Interventionism
World War I and the League of Nations
World War II
The Cold War and Containment
Détente and Human Rights
Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
Global Politics
The War on Terrorism
Uncertainity

5. Isolationism Young Republic Initiated by George Washington
Continued by Thomas Jefferson

6. Interventionism World War I
Woodrow Wilson made a decision of intervention

7. World Events 4th of July 1776 - US Independence day
1914 – 1919 – World War I
1939 – World War II
1945 – 1991 – Cold War
League of Nations was born
United Nations was born
Woodrow Wilson initiated the concept of ‘league of nations’

8. Get one US foreign policy Find the following items related:
Group Assignment
Work in group of 5
Get one US foreign policy
Find the following items related:
President at the time happened
Place the event in the timeline
Decide the category
What was the national interest