Wars

• Wars

  • American Revolution: 1775 1783
  • Iraq War: "Second-Persian-Gulf-War" 2003-2011
  • Korean War: 1950-1953
  • American Civil War: 1861-1865 (accounted for the most American deaths)
  • World War I "Great-War" 1914-1918 (US Entrance: 1917)
  • Vietnam War: "The-Second-Indochina-War" 1955-1975 Entrance 1969 (10 yrs)
  • World War II "Air War" 1939-1945 (The US entered in 1941)
• Third Battle of the Hook (UN V Chinese force)

  28-29 May 1953
• Allies in World War I

  • Russia
  • France
  • Britain
  • US
  • Italy
• Central Powers in World War I

  • Germany
  • Austria-Hungary
  • Turkey
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Bulgaria
• North Vietnam Allies in Vietnam War

  • Soviet Union
  • China
  • other communist allies
• Allies in World War II

  • Britain
  • France
  • US
  • Soviet Union
  • China
  • Denmark
  • Canada
  • The Netherlands
• Axis in World War II

  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Hungary
• Germany invaded Poland

  1 September 1939
• Pearl Harbor was bombed

  7 December 1941
• US declared war on Japan

  8 December 1941
• Enola Gay B-29 bomber, Col. Paul Tibbets Jr., plane that dropped the bombs
• US declared war on Germany


  11 December 1941
• The Battle of Midway marks the turning point in the war in the Pacific in the United States favor
• 1. Day/Operation Overlord, US attacks Normandy

  6 June 1944
• 1. Day/Operation Overlord was the first successful invasion in Nazi occupied Europe
• Germany surrenders, V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

  8 May 1945
• Japan surrenders, V-J Day (Victory in Japan)

  15 August 1945
• Japan officially surrenders, ending war across the world

  2 September 1945
• Cold War


  A state of political hostility and military tension between the Soviet Union and the US involving propaganda, subversion, threats, economic sanctions, and other measures
• Cold War period


  1947-1991