Dr. Juan C. Santamarina
Office Hours:  M-F 12:00-1:00pm , and by appointment.  HM 443.
santamar@udayton.edu
Office Phone: (937) 229-2834

ANNOUNCEMENTS: ALL EXAM REVIEWS ARE SAMPLES ONLY

COURSE DESCRIPTION, REQUIREMENTS, AND GRADING

II.  IMPORTANT DATES

Term Paper Proposals Due	Wed (Week 2)
Exam # 1 Review Posted
Exam #1	Wed (Week 3)
	Wed (Week 4)
	Wed (Week 5)
Term Papers Final Draft Due	Wed (Week 6)
FINAL EXAM:  TBD	FINAL EXAM

III.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE
****Documents below marked "ANALYSIS:" indicates documents for which you must prepare and submit a Document Analysis Worksheet on the FRIDAY of that week.

***INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTING THE DOCUMENTS IN CLASS
 

I. COLONIAL/EARLY NATIONAL ERA Week 1	TOPIC: Course Introduction How do we Interpret our History?  Historiography of Am Foreign Policy Early Foreign Policy TOPIC: Can we Identify "American" ideas of Foreign Relations early in our History?  Colony to Nation: Early American Foreign Relations, 1750-1815 DISCUSSION: Sources of American Foreign Policy DISCUSSION: The American Revolution/Independence War	THEMES: 1. Trade at the Center of the US 2.  Landed and Commercial Expansion of the US 3. Concentration of Power in Hands of the President--"The Imperial Presidency." 4.  The Domestic is Foreign and vice versa   DOCS. FOR READING AND CLASS: The Articles of Confederation (Nov. 15, 1777) The Federalist Papers (Selected) The Albany Plan of 1754 CONSTITUTION OF THE US   DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION/REVIEW FRIDAY: ANALYSIS:  The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776) ANALYSIS:  The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
II. NINETEENTH CENTURY EXPANSION Week 2	TOPIC: FILM-Digital Video Collection: 6614030 AM1058B.RM-War of 1812  Why did our Continental Expansion Contribute to our National Expansion?  Setting the Stage for A New Age: The Monroe Doctrine and Economic Expansion, 1815-1850 Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817 Convention of 1818 Transcontinental Treaty of 1819 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Adams_onis_map.png EXPANSION COMPROMISES Biography of President James Monroe   Photographic Time Line of the Civil War Selected Civil War Photographs for Class The Dred Scott Case AND Dred Scott II:  Actual Court Documents   TOPIC: Why do we Expand Overseas at the end of the 19th Century?  Setting the Stage for Overseas Expansion: The Civil War and Continental Mastery, 1850-1896	DISCUSSION:  Economic Sources of American Foreign Policy   DOCS. FOR READING AND CLASS: WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY: First Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861) The Constitution of the Confederate States of America (March 11, 1861) The Battle Hymn of the Republic McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln (July 7, 1862) The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (1865)   DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION/REVIEW FRIDAY: ANALYSIS:The Declaration of Causes of Seceding states (Winter 1861) ANALYSIS:The Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19, 1863) ANALYSIS:  The Monroe Doctrine December 2, 1823:  1823 State of the Union Address
Week 3	TOPIC: What Does China Have to do with the Caribbean?  Parting the Seas: U.S. Expansion South Toward China, 1896-1913 FILM:  Theodore Roosevelt or War of 1898 DISCUSSION:  Effects of American Interference in the Cuban Independence War TOPIC:   Big Industry, Big Guns, and Big Boats:  Teddy Roosevelt and the American Empire Before the First World War	DOCS. FOR READING AND CLASS: MONDAY: MEMORIAL DAY--NO CLASSES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY William McKinley Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1901) Agreement Between the United States and Cuba for the Lease of Lands for Coaling and Naval stations; February 23, 1903 THURSDAY: Taft Inaugural, March 4, 1909  President Woodrow Wilson's First Warning to the Germans (February 10, 1915) ANALYSIS:  Open Door Note ANALYSIS:  Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Address (March 4, 1905) FRIDAY: NO CLASSES
III.  RISE TO WORLD POWER Week 4	WWI Document Archive TOPIC: Was American Involvement in Europe and the World Inevitable?  The Prize and the Price: Europe and Asia, 1913-1920 1912 Pres. Election Results TOPIC: How did Wilson Belive he Could Create an American World?  A New World Order?, 1920-1933   TOPIC: The Rise of American Supremacy, 1933-1945:  FDR's "New Deal" and the Problems in Europe and Asia REAL AUDIO INFAMY SPEECH DISCUSSION:  The Price of Expansion DISCUSSION:  Is International Cooperation Possible? DISCUSSION:  Does the US want to Stay out of War?	DOCS. FOR READING AND CLASS: MONDAY: EXAM #1 TUESDAY: President Woodrow Wilson's War Message (April 2, 1917) The Espionage Act of 1917 TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY: Wilson's 2nd Inaugural  President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (January 8, 1918)  THURSDAY Treaty of Locarno Between France and Poland October 16, 1925 DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION/REVIEW FRIDAY: ANALYSIS: The Kellogg-Briand Pact ANALYSIS:Covenant of the League of Nations ANALYSIS: The Atlantic Charter (Aug. 14, 1941)
Week 5	READ:  The Mahattan Project Documents TOPIC: The Rise of American Supremacy, 1933-1945:  War and Peace   TOPIC: Why did the USSR and the US become Enemies after the Peace?  A Challenge to Supremacy: The Cold War, 1945-1952 DISCUSSION:  The US assumes World Power DISCUSSION:  Let's Blow up the Russians...and the Chinese...Everyone!!	DOCS. FOR READING AND CLASS MONDAY: Third Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941) The Declaration of War on Japan (Dec. 8, 1941) The Declaration of War on Germany (Dec. 11, 1941) TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY: Fourth Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945) The German Surrender Documents of World War II (May 8, 1945) The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II (Sept. 12, 1945) THURSDAY: The Truman Doctrine (Mar. 12, 1947) Inaugural Address of President Harry S. Truman (1949) DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION/REVIEW FRIDAY: ANALYSIS:  The Mahattan Project Documents ANALYSIS:  The North Atlantic Treaty (Apr. 4, 1949)ANALYSIS: The Warsaw Security Pact: May 14, 1955
Week 6	TOPIC:  What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been...the Cold War and the Cold War Warmed Over FILM,  "Atomic Cafe"	MONDAY: -Documents from Week  5 TUESDAY: NSC-68 (1950)--Conclusions and Recommendations Only Eisenhower's Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem (1954) WEDNESDAY: President Ronald Regan's 2nd Inaugural President Bush's Second Inaugural address  THURSDAY: FINAL EXAM