Grading US Foreign Policy in the 1900's

Throughout the twentieth century the United States of America has had many successes and failures in their foreign policy. Beginning in the late 1800s with manifest destiny all the way through the cold war and communist containment through the late 1900s the US had some pluses and some minuses in how they handled affairs abroad. After comparing the following information I have decided to give the foreign affairs of the United States a C+ in …

…But since the United States lost this brings down their grade. Had we won the war maybe America’s perception of Vietnam would be different. Through the Twentieth Century, the US had many ups and downs in foreign policy. With containment and the world wars the US was just and good. With imperialism and isolationism, America’s greed showed. The goods and bads pretty much balanced out making the United States foreign policy grade average.