History · Boston College
Fulfills the US History requirement for History MajorsThis course surveys the history of United States foreign relations from the end of World War I to the present. It traces how the United States moved, in a very short time, from isolation in Fortress America to a policy of global interventionism that projected American power into every time zone and every inhabited latitude. We begin with an analysis of why Americans largely turned their backs on foreign affairs in the 1920s and 1930s and stood aloof from the terrifying collapse of international order under the onslaught of a worldwide econo
