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Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations

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  • 1866–1898: The Continued Expansion of United States Interests
  • U.S. Diplomacy and the Telegraph, 1866
  • Purchase of Alaska, 1867
  • The Burlingame-Seward Treaty, 1868
  • Commodore Robert W. Shufeldt’s Voyage to Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, 1878–1880
  • Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts
  • Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power upon History: Securing International Markets in the 1890s
  • Blaine and Pan Americanism, 1880s/1890s
  • Venezuela Boundary Dispute, 1895–1899
  • U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism, 1895–1898
  • The Spanish-American War, 1898

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  • 1866-1898
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  • 1921-1936
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  • 1993-2000

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