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Wars involving the United States
- Cold WarOn the 16th of April 1947, an influential advisor to Democratic presidents named Bernard Baruch stood before an audience and declared, "we are today in the…
- Spanish–American WarThe Spanish-American War lasted just sixteen weeks in 1898, and when it was over, the United States had acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines…
- Iraq WarAt 5:34 in the morning on the 20th of March 2003, Baghdad time, the United States began bombing Iraq. There was no declaration of war.
- First Indochina WarThe First Indochina War began on the 19th of December 1946, when fighting erupted across Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh's government fled the capital for the forested…
- French Revolutionary WarsThe French Revolutionary Wars began in the spring of 1792 with a declaration of war against Austria and Prussia, and they did not end until 1802.
- Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War began on the 1st of November 1955 and did not end until the 30th of April 1975 - nearly two decades of armed conflict across Vietnam, Laos…
- Gulf WarThe Gulf War pitted Iraq against a coalition of 42 countries led by the United States. On the 2nd of August 1990, Iraq invaded its small neighbor Kuwait and…
- War of 1812The War of 1812 began on the 18th of June 1812, when President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Britain into law, setting off a conflict…
- American Civil WarThe American Civil War began at 4:30 in the morning on the 12th of April 1861, when Confederate artillery fired the first of 4,000 shells at Fort Sumter in…
- United States invasion of GrenadaAt dawn on the 25th of October 1983, the United States invaded Grenada, a small Caribbean island nation, in an operation codenamed Urgent Fury.
- ContrasIn July 1979, the FSLN took control of the capital Managua after weeks of heavy fighting. The president at the time, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, fled the…
- Korean WarAt 4:40 in the morning on the 25th of June 1950, the Korean People's Army crossed the 38th parallel behind a wall of artillery fire.
- Second French intervention in MexicoOn the 19th of June 1867, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria stood on the Cerro de las Campanas outside Querétaro and faced a firing squad alongside…
- Greek Civil WarThe Greek Civil War began not with a declaration or a battle line, but with a demonstration. On the 3rd of December 1944, at least 200,000 people marched…
- Syrian civil warThe Syrian civil war began in March 2011, when crowds gathered across Syria to demand democratic change from a government that had ruled by fear for decades.
- World War IIWorld War II killed between 60 and 75 million people, making it the deadliest conflict in history. Tanks and aircraft reshaped the battlefield, and aircraft…
- World War IWorld War I began with two pistol shots fired in a Sarajevo street on the 28th of June 1914. Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, had taken his position after…
- War on terrorOn the morning of the 11th of September 2001, nineteen men hijacked four jet airliners, all of them bound for California.