HIST 4220 - Diplomatic History of the United States (3)

An analysis of American foreign affairs, 1776 to the present. HIST 4210 begins with the diplomacy surrounding the emergence of the United States as a nation and concludes with the nation’s growth into a world power by 1870. HIST 4220 treats the further expansion of the United States’ role as a dominant world power by covering the years 1870 to the present, including foreign policies preceding and during the world wars, containment and anti-communist policies, the Vietnam dilemma, detente, and the collapse of the Soviet empire.