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American Wars & Foreign Interventions

Military conflicts since the birth of the United States.

  • The American Revolution, 1775–83: 🇺🇸 vs. Great Britain
  • The Indian Wars, 1775–1890: 🇺🇸 vs. American Indians
  • Quasi-War with France, 1798–1800: 🇺🇸 vs. France
  • The Barbary Wars, 1801–5, 1815: 🇺🇸 vs. Barbary States (Tripoli, Algiers, & Morocco)
  • The War of 1812, 1812–15: 🇺🇸 vs. Great Britain
  • Mexican-American War, 1846–48: 🇺🇸 vs. Mexico
  • United States Civil War, 1861–65: 🇺🇸 vs. Confederate States of America
  • U.S. Intervention in Hawaiian Revolution, 1893: 🇺🇸 vs. Hawaiian government
  • The Spanish-American War, 1898: 🇺🇸 vs. Spain
  • Intervention in Samoan Civil War, 1898–99: 🇺🇸 vs. German-backed forces
  • U.S.-Philippine War, 1899–1902: 🇺🇸 vs. Philippines
  • Boxer Rebellion, 1900: 🇺🇸 vs. China
  • The Moro Wars, 1901–13: 🇺🇸 vs. Muslim Filipinos
  • Intervention in Panamanian Revolution, 1903: 🇺🇸 vs. Colombia
  • The Banana Wars, 1909–33: 🇺🇸 vs. Central American rebels
  • Occupation of Vera Cruz, 1914: 🇺🇸 vs. Mexico
  • Pershing’s Raid into Mexico, 1916–17: 🇺🇸 vs. Mexico
  • World War I, 1917–18: 🇺🇸 vs. Germany et al.
  • Intervention in Russian Civil War, 1919–20: 🇺🇸 vs. Bolsheviks
  • World War II, 1941–45: 🇺🇸 vs. Germany, Japan, & Italy
  • The Korean War, 1950–53: 🇺🇸 vs. North Korea & China
  • Intervention in Lebanon, 1958: 🇺🇸 vs. antigovernment rebels
  • Vietnam War, 1964–73: 🇺🇸 vs. North Vietnam & South Vietnamese rebels
  • Intervention in Dominican Republic, 1965: 🇺🇸 vs. antigovernment rebels
  • Bombing of Libya, 1981, 1986: 🇺🇸 vs. Colonel Gadhafi’s regime
  • Intervention in Lebanon, 1982–84: 🇺🇸 vs. Syria & terrorist groups
  • Invasion of Grenada, 1983: 🇺🇸 vs. Cubans & Grenadian communists
  • The Tanker War, 1987–88: 🇺🇸 vs. Iran
  • Invasion of Panama, 1989: 🇺🇸 vs. General Manuel Noriega regime
  • Persian Gulf War, 1991: 🇺🇸 vs. Iraq
  • Intervention in Somalia, 1992–94: 🇺🇸 vs. Somali militia
  • Intervention in Bosnia, 1994–95: 🇺🇸 vs. Bosnian Serbs
  • Occupation of Haiti, 1994: 🇺🇸 vs. Haitian regime
  • Bombing of Afghanistan and Sudan, 1998: 🇺🇸 vs. Al Qaeda
  • Bombing of Iraq, 1998: 🇺🇸 vs. Iraq
  • Kosovo War, 1999: 🇺🇸 vs. Serbia
  • Afghanistan War, 2001–21: 🇺🇸 vs. Taliban & Al Qaeda
  • Iraq War, 2003–11: 🇺🇸 vs. Iraq