Exceptionalism and Isolationism
“American exceptionalism”
Internationalization
Isolationism
Government and big business/corporations
“cowboy diplomacy”
The history of American imperialism
US history textbooks
Louisiana Purchase
War with Mexico
Manifest Destiny
Cuba
Hawaii
Philippines
World wars
Nuclear weapons
Korea
Vietnam
Antiwar protests
First Iraq War
Oil
An end to the Cold War
bipolar world
threat of nuclear war
deficits
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
glasnost
perestroika
1990
1991
Boris Yeltsin
Economic Globalization
Iraq and Afghanistan
