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Resources for educators and students from
the Council on Foreign Relations

Foreign Policy

See also: Learning Resources on Foreign Policy

High School

Employees work at a textile factory in Xiangfan

Activities

Discussion Activity: Post-Cold War Engagement with China

President David Dwight Eisenhower During A Conference Of Nato

Activities

Discussion Activity: Cold War Containment

Gorbachev & Bush Speak To Press

Activities

Diplomacy Negotiation: Classroom Summit

Activities_AnnexationPhilippines

Activities

Discussion Activity: Annexing the Philippines

Woodrow Wilson

Activities

Discussion Activity: Interwar Neutrality

Activities_JayTreaty

Activities

Discussion Activity: The Jay Treaty

Higher Education

Employees work at a textile factory in Xiangfan

Activities

Discussion Activity: Post-Cold War Engagement with China

President David Dwight Eisenhower During A Conference Of Nato

Activities

Discussion Activity: Cold War Containment

Gorbachev & Bush Speak To Press

Activities

Diplomacy Negotiation: Classroom Summit

Activities_AnnexationPhilippines

Activities

Discussion Activity: Annexing the Philippines

Woodrow Wilson

Activities

Discussion Activity: Interwar Neutrality

Activities_JayTreaty

Activities

Discussion Activity: The Jay Treaty

Resource Collections for your Students

A black and white photograph of a large, black mushroom cloud.

Primary Sources from the Cold War

A painting from the Battle of Quingua showing a scene with American troops in the foreground advancing on Filipino troops.

Primary Sources from U.S. Overseas Expansion

A color poster showing a sailor being sent to battle by a symbolic female figure with a sword, possibly Liberty.

Primary Sources from the Interwar Neutrality Debate

A black and white portrait of John Jay.

Primary Sources from the Early Republic

U.S. History Mini Simulations

Will China Invade Taiwan?