Confronting the Limit to American Power In the 1950’s America’s foreign policy mainly focused on stopping the spread of communism through out the world, and anti communism was a major theme that defined American politics during this decade up to the early years of the 1960’s. The 1960’s were characterized with more calls for civil rights recognition, but beginning with 1965, the Vietnam had a big impact on U.S. foreign policy. Thus, from 1964, the United States was faced with numerous limits of its power in the international stage beginning with the Vietnam War. This paper explores the strategies used to confront America’s limit of its powers for the period covering 1964-2001.