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The function of the US government is a made to connect the United States with over 200 Nations. The American foreign Policy determines how American conducts its relations with those nations.

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America’s foreign policy has changed many times adapting to the change in its interest. America’s national interest was to maintain its independence from more powerful European countries. Protected by the Atlantic Ocean, its major foreign policy, as typified by the Monroe Doctrine, was to stop European attempts of colonization of the Western Region.

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By the 20th century, the United States had become a small imperial power, fighting a war with Spain for Cuba and the Philippines and annexing Hawaii. World War I engaged the United States in European affairs, but after the war a wave of isolationist feeling swept the country.Absorbed by the collapse of the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s, America let its military strength erode. The US was not prepared for war when the Japanese attacked the U.S. at Pearl Harbor in 1941

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Emerging from World War II as the most powerful countries on Earth, the United States changed its foreign policy dramatically. It took the lead in founding the United Nations. It invested billions of dollars through the Marshall Plan to help strengthen devastated European democracies.

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In forming U.S. foreign policy, the president relies on advice from the National Security Council. This group is made up of the vice-president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, head of the CIA, and chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

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At different times, tensions had risen between the branches in the conduct of foreign policy. Presidents sometimes favor treaties that the Senate does approve. President Woodrow Wilson promoted treaties establishing the League of Nations after World War I, but the Senate opposed the League and refused to ratify the treaties. Other times, tensions have arisen between the Congress power to declare war and the president’s role as commander in chief. Presidents have put American armed forces in major conflicts such as the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf wars without a declaration of war by Congress.