War Chronology of U.S.A.

 

1689-97 King William's War
1701-03 Queen Anne's War
1744-48 King George's War
1754-63 Seven Years' War

1775-1781 American Revolutionary War ended by Treaty of Versailles in 1783
1776-1850 +1,000 Indian-White wars
1846-1848 Mexican-American War 21,000 killed
1853 U.S. intervenes to open Japan to Western influence
1861-1865 Civil War
1898 Spanish-American War ended by Treaty of Paris

1904-33 troops to Dominican Republic, Cuba, Honduras, Haiti, Nicaragua
1914-18 WWI ended by 1919 Treaties of Versailles, etc. (note: US didn't enter until 1917)

1939-45 WWII (US involved 1941-45 after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941)
1945 in July first atomic bomb detonated at Alamagordo, NM; in August atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan
1949 in August NATO established (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
1950-53 Korean War intervention by UN forces including US
1958 in July US forces intervene in Lebanon conflict
1961 in May "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba fails
1961-75 Vietnam War (Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon) (Note: May 1973 last US forces leave Vietnam; South Vietnam forces surrender to North Vietnam in April 1975)
1965 April to June 1966 US forces intervene in the Dominican Republic
1981-89 U.S. intervention in civili war in Nicaragua
1982 Falkland Islands/Malvinas War between Argentina and Britain (US provides support for Britain)
1985 in October US forces invade Grenada to oust Marxist regime (Ronald Reagan)
1986 in April US attacks Libya in retaliation for supporting terrorist attacks
1989 on December 20 US invades Panama to capture President Manual Noriega (George H.W. Bush)
1990-91 Gulf War (George H.W. Bush) (August 7, 1990, US troops land in Saudi Arabia and on January 16, 1991, US led airstrikes on Kuwait to oust Iraqi invasion, UN Security Council sets terms for cease fire in Iraq on April 3, 1991, but bombing continues sporadically in north and south no-fly zones over Iraq
1991 on July 26 US sends peacekeeping forces to El Salvador
1992 on Dec. 9 US forces enter Somalia to assist UN peacekeeping forces
1994 invaded Haiti to restore elected but exiled President Aristide to power (Bill Clinton)
1999 Kosovo with NATO (Bill Clinton)

2001 "War on Terrorism" (George W. Bush)

2001 Invasion of Afghanistan (George W. Bush)
2003 Invasion of Iraq (George W. Bush)

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