List of United States military history events

From 1776 to 2004 there have been hundreds of instances of the deployment of United States military forces abroad and domestically. The list through 1975 is based on United States Congress House Committee on International Relations. Dates show the years in which U.S. military units participated. The bolded items are the U.S. wars most often considered to be major conflicts by historians and the general public. Portions of this list are from the Congressional Research Service report RL30172. The day before the coup, the CIA sent a message to Washington saying: 'President Goulart will be removed, and quickly . . . oil is a problem, the communists have the control of ports and railways but not of the roads . . . the democrats will be dependent on the port of Vitoria, which they can control, to get oil'. It was thus that 'Operation Brother Sam' was thrown into action to provide logistical support. A navy task force was sent to the Brazilian coast, consisting of one aircraft carrier, six destroyers, one helicopter carrier and four oil tankers. Beside the oil, a hundred tons of arms and ammunition were also to be provided; See also: João Goulart#The Military Overthrow of Goulart

1964 - 1975 -- Vietnam War. US military advisers had been in South Vietnam for a decade, and their numbers had been increased as the military position of the Saigon government became weaker. After citing what he termed were attacks on US destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf, President Johnson asked in August 1964 for a resolution expressing US determination to support freedom and protect peace in Southeast Asia. Congress responded with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, expressing support for "all necessary measures" the President might take to repel armed attacks against US forces and prevent further aggression. Following this resolution, and following a Communist attack on a US installation in central Vietnam, the United States escalated its participation in the war to a peak of 543,000 military personnel by April 1969.

1965 -- Dominican Republic. Invasion of Dominican Republic The United States intervened to protect lives and property during a Dominican revolt and sent 20,000 US troops as fears grew that the revolutionary forces were coming increasingly under Communist control.

1967 -- Congo (Zaire). The United States sent three military transport aircraft with crews to provide the Congo central government with logistical support during a revolt.

1968 -- Capture of USS Pueblo

1968 -- Iraq. The C.I.A. successfully supports coup in Iraq against the government of Rahman Arif to bring the Ba'ath Party to power, with Saddam Hussein eventually taking the helm.

1968 -- U.S. bombs the Ho Chi Minh trail in Cambodia and Laos. (See Operation Commando Hunt)

1970-1979

1970 -- Cambodia. US troops were ordered into Cambodia to clean out Communist sanctuaries from which Viet Cong and North Vietnamese attacked USand South Vietnamese forces in Vietnam. The object of this attack, which lasted from April 30 to June 30, was to ensure the continuing safe withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam and to assist the program of Vietnamization.

1974 -- Evacuation from Cyprus. United States naval forces evacuated US civilians during hostilities between Turkish and Greek Cypriot forces.

1975 -- Evacuation from Vietnam. On April 3, 1975, President Ford reported US naval vessels, helicopters, and Marines had been sent to assist in evacuation of refugees and US nationals from Vietnam.3

1975 -- Evacuation from Cambodia. On April 12, 1975, President Ford reported that he had ordered US military forces to proceed with the planned evacuation of US citizens from Cambodia.

1975 -- South Vietnam. On April 30 1975, President Ford reported that a force of 70 evacuation helicopters and 865 Marines had evacuated about 1,400 US citizens and 5,500 third country nationals and South Vietnamese from landing zones near the US Embassy in Saigon and the Tan Son Nhut Airfield.

1975 -- Cambodia. Mayagüez Incident. On May 15, 1975, President Ford reported he had ordered military forces to retake the SS Mayaguez, a merchant vessel which was seized from Cambodian naval patrol boats in international waters and forced to proceed to a nearby island.

1976 -- Lebanon. On July 22 and 23, 1974, helicopters from five US naval vessels evacuated approximately 250 Americans and Europeans from Lebanon during fighting between Lebanese factions after an overland convoy evacuation had been blocked by hostilities.

1976 -- Korea. Additional forces were sent to Korea after two American soldiers were killed by North Korean soldiers in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea while cutting down a tree.

1978 -- Zaire (Congo). From May 19 through June 1978, the United States utilized military transport aircraft to provide logistical support to Belgian and French rescue operations in Zaire.

1980-1990

1980 -- Operation Eagle Claw

1980 -- Iran. On April 26, 1980, President Carter reported the use of six US transport planes and eight helicopters in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue American hostages being held in Iran.

1981 -- El Salvador. After a guerilla offensive against the government of El Salvador, additional US military advisers were sent to El Salvador, bringing the total to approximately 55, to assist in training government forces in counterinsurgency.

1981 --Libya. On August 19, 1981, US planes based on the carrier USS Nimitz shot down two Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra after one of the Libyan jets had fired a heat-seeking missile. The United States periodically held freedom of navigation exercises in the Gulf of Sidra, claimed by Libya as territorial waters but considered international waters by the United States.

1981, 1989 -- Gulf of Sidra Incidents

1982 -- Sinai. On March 19, 1982, President Reagan reported the deployment of military personnel and equipment to participate in the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai. Participation had been authorized by the Multinational Force and Observers Resolution, Public Law 97-132.

1982 -- Lebanon. Multinational Force in Lebanon On August 21, 1982, President Reagan reported the dispatch of 80 marines to serve in the multinational force to assist in the withdrawal of members of the Palestine Liberation force from Beirut. The Marines left September 20, 1982.

1982-1983 -- Lebanon. Operation Urgent Fury Grenada On September 29, 1982, President Reagan reported the deployment of 1200 marines to serve in a temporary multinational force to facilitate the restoration of Lebanese government sovereignty. On Sept. 29, 1983, Congress passed the Multinational Force in Lebanon Resolution (P.L. 98-119) authorizing the continued participation for eighteen months.

1983 -- Egypt. After a Libyan plane bombed a city in Sudan on March 18, 1983, and Sudan and Egypt appealed for assistance, the United States dispatched an AWACS electronic surveillance plane to Egypt.

1983 -- Grenada. Citing an imminent Soviet threat, the U.S. invades the sovereign island nation of Grenada. Grenada is defended only by several hundred lightly armed troops and policemen.

1983-89 -- Honduras. In July 1983 the United States undertook a series of exercises in Honduras that some believed might lead to conflict with Nicaragua. On March 25, 1986, unarmed US military helicopters and crewmen ferried Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border to repel Nicaraguan troops.

1983 -- Chad. On August 8, 1983, President Reagan reported the deployment of two AWACS electronic surveillance planes and eight F-15 fighter planes and ground logistical support forces to assist Chad against Libyan and rebel forces.

1984 -- Persian Gulf. On June 5, 1984, Saudi Arabian jet fighter planes, aided by intelligence from a US AWACS electronic surveillance aircraft and fueled by a U.S. KC-10 tanker, shot down two Iranian fighter planes over an area of the Persian Gulf proclaimed as a protected zone for shipping.

1985 -- Italy. On October 10, 1985, US Navy pilots intercepted an Egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Sicily. The airliner was carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro who had killed an American citizen during the hijacking.

1986 -- Libya. Libyan Patrol Boats On March 26, 1986, President Reagan reported on March 24 and 25, US forces, while engaged in freedom of navigation exercises around the Gulf of Sidra, had been attacked by Libyan missiles and the United States had responded with missiles.

1986 -- Libya. On April 16, 1986, President Reagan reported that US air and naval forces had conducted bombing strikes on terrorist facilities and military installations in Libya. (See Operation El Dorado Canyon)

1986 -- Bolivia. U.S. Army personnel and aircraft assisted Bolivia in anti-drug operations.

1986 -- Operation El Dorado Canyon April 15.

1987 - 1988 -- Persian Gulf. After the Iran-Iraq War resulted in several military incidents in the Persian Gulf, the United States increased US joint military forces operations in the Persian Gulf and adopted a policy of reflagging and escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Gulf. President Reagan reported that US ships had been fired upon or struck mines or taken other military action on September 23, October 10, and October 20, 1987 and April 19, July 4, and July 14, 1988. The United States gradually reduced its forces after a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq on August 20, 1988.

1987- 1988 -- Operation Earnest Will

1987 - 1988 -- Operation Prime Chance

1988 -- April 18 strikes against Iranian naval and air forces. (See Operation Praying Mantis)

1988 -- Operation Golden Pheasant

1988 -- USS Vincennes shoot down of Iran Air Flight 655

1988 -- Panama. Operation Just Cause In mid-March and April 1988, during a period of instability in Panama and as the United States increased pressure on Panamanian head of state General Manuel Noriega to resign, the United States sent 1,000 troops to Panama, to "further safeguard the canal, US lives, property and interests in the area." The forces supplemented 10,000 US military personnel already in the Panama Canal Zone.

1989 -- Libya. On January 4, 1989, two US Navy F-14 aircraft based on the USS John F. Kennedy shot down two Libyan jet fighters over the Mediterranean Sea about 70 miles north of Libya. The US pilots said the Libyan planes had demonstrated hostile intentions.

1989 -- Panama. On May 11, 1989, in response to General Noriega's disregard of the results of the Panamanian election, President Bush ordered a brigade-sized force of approximately 1,900 troops to augment the estimated 11,000 U.S. forces already in the area.

1989 -- Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. Andean Initiative in War on Drugs. On September 15, 1989, President Bush announced that military and law enforcement assistance would be sent to help the Andean nations of Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru combat illicit drug producers and traffickers. By mid-September there were 50-100 US military advisers in Colombia in connection with transport and training in the use of military equipment, plus seven Special Forces teams of 2-12 persons to train troops in the three countries.

1989 -- Philippines. On December 2, 1989, President Bush reported that on December 1 US fighter planes from Clark Air Base in the Philippines had assisted the Aquino government to repel a coup attempt. In addition, 100 marines were sent from the US Navy base at Subic Bay to protect the US Embassy in Manila.

1989-90 -- Panama. Operation Just Cause On December 21, 1989, the U.S. invades the sovereign nation of Panama to "further safeguard the canal, US lives, property and interests in the area." Several thousand Panamanian civilians are killed. The Panamanian head of state, General Manuel Noriega, is captured and brought to the U.S. By February 13, 1990, all the invasion forces had been withdrawn.

1990 -- Liberia. On August 6, 1990, President Bush reported that a reinforced rifle company had been sent to provide additional security to the US Embassy in Monrovia, and that helicopter teams had evacuated US citizens from Liberia.

1990 -- Saudi Arabia. On August 9, 1990, President Bush reported that he had ordered the forward deployment of substantial elements of the US armed forces into the Persian Gulf region to help defend Saudi Arabia after the August 2 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. On November 16, 1990, he reported the continued buildup of the forces to ensure an adequate offensive military option.

1991-1999

1991 -- Iraq. Persian Gulf War On January 16 America attacked Iraqi forces and military targets in Iraq and Kuwait, in conjunction with a coalition of allies and UN Security Council resolutions. Combat operations ended on February 28, 1991. (See Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm)

1991 -- Iraq. On May 17, 1991, President Bush stated that the Iraqi repression of the Kurdish people had necessitated a limited introduction of US forces into northern Iraq for emergency relief purposes.

1991 -- Zaire. On September 25-27, 1991, after widespread looting and rioting broke out in Kinshasa, US Air Force C-141s transported 100 Belgian troops and equipment into Kinshasa. US planes also carried 300 French troops into the Central African Republic and hauled evacuated American citizens.

1992 -- Sierra Leone. On May 3, 1992, US military planes evacuated Americans from Sierra Leone, where military leaders had overthrown the government.

1992 -- Kuwait. On August 3, 1992, the United States began a series of military exercises in Kuwait, following Iraqi refusal to recognize a new border drawn up by the United Nations and refusal to cooperate with UN inspection teams.

1992 -2003 -- Iraq. Iraqi No-Fly Zones The U.S. together with the United Kingdom declares and enforces a "no fly zones" over the majority of sovereign Iraqi airspace, prohibiting Iraqi flights in zones in southern Iraq and northern Iraq, and conducting aerial reconnaissance and bombings.

1992 -1995 -- Somalia. "Operation Restore Hope" Somali Civil War On December 10, 1992, President Bush reported that he had deployed US armed forces to Somalia in response to a humanitarian crisis and a UN Security Council Resolution. The operation came to an end on May 4, 1993. US forces continued to participate in the successor United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM II). (See also Battle of Mogadishu)

1991-1996 -- Operation Provide Comfort

1993-Present Bosnia/Yugoslavia/Kosovo.

1993 -- Macedonia. On July 9, 1993, President Clinton reported the deployment of 350 US soldiers to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to participate in the UN Protection Force to help maintain stability in the area of former Yugoslavia.

1993 - 1995 -- Haiti. Operation Uphold Democracy US ships had begun embargo against Haiti. Up to 20,000 US military troops were later deployed to Haiti.

1994 - 1996 -- Rwanda.

1994 -- Macedonia. On April 19, 1994, President Clinton reported that the US contingent in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia had been increased by a reinforced company of 200 personnel.

1995 -- Bosnia. NATO bombing of Bosnian Serbs. (See Operation Deliberate Force)

1996 -- Liberia. On April 11, 1996, President Clinton reported that on April 9, 1996 due to the "deterioration of the security situation and the resulting threat to American citizens" in Liberia he had ordered US military forces to evacuate from that country "private US citizens and certain third-country nationals who had taken refuge in the US Embassy compound...."

1996 -- Central African Republic. On May 23, 1996, President Clinton reported the deployment of US military personnel to Bangui, Central African Republic, to conduct the evacuation from that country of "private US citizens and certain U.S. Government employees," and to provide "enhanced security for the American Embassy in Bangui."

1997 -- Albania. On March 13, 1997, US military forces were used to evacuate certain U.S. Government employees and private US citizens from Tirana, Albania.

1997 -- Congo and Gabon. On March 27, 1997, President Clinton reported on March 25, 1997, a standby evacuation force of US military personnel had been deployed to Congo and Gabon to provide enhanced security and to be available for any necessary evacuation operation.

1997 -- Sierra Leone. On May 29 and May 30, 1997, US military personnel were deployed to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to prepare for and undertake the evacuation of certain US government employees and private US citizens.

1997 -- Cambodia. On July 11, 1997, In an effort to ensure the security of American citizens in Cambodia during a period of domestic conflict there, a Task Force of about 550 US military personnel were deployed at Utapao Air Base in Thailand for possible evacuations.

1998 -- Iraq. US-led bombing campaign against Iraq. (See Operation Desert Fox)

1998 -- Guinea-Bissau. On June 10, 1998, in response to an army mutiny in Guinea-Bissau endangering the US Embassy President Clinton deployed a standby evacuation force of US military personnel to Dakar, Senegal, to evacuate from the city of Bissau.

1998 - 1999 Kenya and Tanzania. US military personnel was deployed to Nairobi, Kenya, to coordinate the medical and disaster assistance related to the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

1998 -- Afghanistan and Sudan. Operation Infinite Reach On August 20th air strikes were used against two suspected terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical factory in Sudan.

1998 -- Liberia. On September 27, 1998 America deployed a stand-by response and evacuation force of 30 US military personnel to increase the security force at the US Embassy in Monrovia.

1999 - 2001 East Timor. Limited number of US military forces deployed to restore peace to East Timor.

1999 -- NATO's bombing of Serbia in the Kosovo Conflict. (See Operation Allied Force)

2000- present

2000 -- Sierra Leone. On May 12, 2000, President Clinton reported that he had ordered a US Navy patrol craft to deploy to Sierra Leone to be ready to support evacuation operations from that country if needed

2000 -- Yemen. On October 14, 2000, President Clinton reported that on October 12, 2000, in the wake of an attack on the USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, he had authorized deployment of military personnel to Aden.

2001 -- Afghanistan. US invasion of Afghanistan The War on Terrorism begins with Operation Enduring Freedom. On October 7, 2001, US Armed Forces "began combat action in Afghanistan against Al Qaida terrorists and their Taliban supporters."

2002 -- Yemen. On November 3, 2003, an American RQ-1 Predator fired a Hellfire missile at a car in Yemen killing Qaed Senyan al-Harthi, an al-Qaeda leader thought to be responsible for the USS Cole bombing.
2002 -- Philippines. At the Philippine Government's invitation, the President had ordered deployed "combat-equipped and combat support forces to train with, advise, and assist" the Philippines' Armed Forces in enhancing their "existing counterterrorist capabilities."

2002 -- Cote d'Ivoire. On September 25, 2002, in response to a rebellion in Cote d'Ivoire US military personnel went into Cote d'Ivoire to assist in the evacuation of American citizens Bouake.

2003 -- 2003 invasion of Iraq Second Persian Gulf War. March 20, 2003. The United States leads a coalition that includes Britain, to invade Iraq with the stated goal of eliminating Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. By May 1, 2003, President Bush declares "mission accomplished." Occupation of Iraq by foriegn military forces continues.

2003 -- Liberia. Second Liberian Civil War On June 9, 2003, President Bush reported that on June 8 he had sent about 35 combat-equipped US military personnel into Monrovia, Liberia, to help secure the US Embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania, and to aid in any necessary evacuation from either Liberia or Mauritania.

2003 --Georgia and Djibouti "US combat equipped and support forces" had been deployed to Georgia and Djibouti to help in enhancing their "counterterrorist capabilities."

2004 -- 2004 Haïti rebellion Haiti.

2004 -- Terrorism: US "anti-terror" related activities were underway in Georgia, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Eritrea.

2006 -- Pakistan. 17 people including known Al Qaeda bomb maker and chemical weapons expert Midhat Mursi, were killed in an American RQ-1 Predator airstrike on Damadola (Pakistan), near the Afghan border.

2006 -- Lebanon. US Marine Detachment begins evacuation of US citizens willing to the leave the country in the face of a likely ground invasion by Israel and continued fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli military.

Other interventions

In addition to the operations listed above, the US has a very active foreign policy that uses various methods to influence events in other countries. These methods include
*weapons sales
*military advice and training (e.g. through the School of the Americas)
*international loans
*economic sanctions
*development aid
*foreign broadcasting (e.g. Voice of America)
*grants to non-governmental organizations (e.g. the National Endowment for Democracy)
*support of separatist groups
*support of anti-government press

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have also been called agents of US foreign intervention, although the US by itself does not set the policies of these institutions unilaterally. [1]

American Indian battles

See also: Indian Wars, Indian massacres
*Frontier warfare during the American Revolution, which included::*Battle of Oriskany (1777):*Wyoming Valley Massacre (1778):*Cherry Valley Massacre (1778):*Sullivan Expedition (1779):*Battle of Blue Licks (1782)
*Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)
*Nickajack Expedition (1794)
*Sabine Expedition (1806)
*War of 1812 (western theatre), which included::*Tecumseh's War (1811-1813) :*Peoria War (1813):*Creek War (1813–1814)
*Seminole Wars (1812, 1817–1818, 1835–1842, 1855–1858)
*Arikara War (1823)
*Fever River War (1827)
*Le Fèvre Indian War (1827)
*Black Hawk War (1832)
*Pawnee Indian Territory Campaign (1834)
*Creek War of 1836, aka Second Creek War or Creek Alabama Uprising (1835-1837)
*Missouri-Iowa Border War (1836)
*Southwestern Frontier (Sabine) disturbances (no fighting) (1836–1837)
*Cherokee Uprising (1836-1838)
*Osage Indian War (1837)
*Cayuse War (1848–1855)
*Navajo Wars (1849–1861)
**Long Walk of the Navajo (1863–1868)
*Southwest Indian Wars (1849-1863)
*Pitt River Expedition (1850)
*Mariposa War (1850–1851)
*Yuma Expedition (1851–1852)
*Utah Indian Wars (1851-1853)
*Walker War (1853)
*Grattan Massacre (1855)
*Yakima War (1855)
*Snake River War (1855)
*Klickitat War (1855)
*Puget Sound War (1855–1856)
*Rogue River Wars (1855–1856)
*Klamath and Salmon Indian Wars (1855)
*Tintic War (1856)
*Gila Expedition (1857)
*Mendocino War (1858)
*Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Paloos War (1858)
*Pecos Expedition (1859)
*Antelope Hills Expedition (1859)
*Bear River Expedition (1859)
*Paiute War (1860)
*Kiowa-Comanche War (1860)
*Cheyenne Campaign (1861–1864)
*Sioux Uprising (1862)
*Colorado War (1863–1865)
*Kidder Massacre (1867) {See 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment-External Link}
*Snake War (1864–1868)
*Utah's Black Hawk War (1865–1872)
*Red Cloud's War (1866–1868)
*Comanche Wars (1867–1875)
*Battle of Washita River (1868)
*Marias Massacre (1870)
*Modoc War (1872–1873)
*Red River War (1874)
*Apache Wars (1873, 1885–1886)
*Eastern Navada Expedition (1875)
*Black Hills War (1876–1877)
*Nez Perce Wars (1877)
*Bannock War (1878)
*Cheyenne War (1878–1879)
*Sheepeater Indian War (1879)
*White River War (1879)
*Ute War (1879-1880)
*Ghost Dance War (1890–1891)
*Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)
*New Mexico Navajo War (1913)
*Colorado Paiute War (1915)
*AIM Takeovers (~1969–~1974)

Relocation

*Indian Removal (1830s)
**Trail of Tears (1835-1838)
*WWII-Era Japanese American Internment (1942–1946)

Armed insurrections and slave revolts

See also: Slave rebellion, Tax revolt
*Shays' Rebellion (1786)
*Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
*John Fries' Rebellion (1799)
*Gabriel's Rebellion (1800)
*Malta War (1808–1809)
*Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion (1811)
*Fort Blount Revolt (1816)
*Denmark Vesey's Uprising (1822)
*Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831)
*Buckshot War (~1837–~1838)
*Patriot War (1837–1838)
Amistad Seizure (1839)
*Anti-Rent War (1839–~1844)
*Creole Incident (1841)
*Dorr Rebellion (1841–1842)
*John Brown's Raid on Federal Armory at Harper's Ferry (1859)
*Salinero Revolt (1877)
*Jayuya Uprising - Puerto Rico (1950)

Range wars

See also: Range war
*Franklin County War (Idaho, 1866–1872)
*Mason County War (Texas, 1874–1877)
*Colfax County War (New Mexico, 1875)
*Lincoln County War (New Mexico, 1877–1878)
*Johnson County War (Wyoming, 1892)
*Pleasant Valley War (Arizona, 1886)
*Sheep Wars (Texas-New Mexico borderlands, ~1879–1900)
*Posey War (Utah, 1923)

Bloodless boundary disputes

*Toledo War (1835, Michigan Territory-Ohio)
*Aroostook War (1838–1839, U.S.-Britain)
*Honey War (1839, Iowa Territory-Missouri)
*Oregon boundary dispute (1844–1846, U.S.-Britain)
*Pig War (1859, U.S.-Britain)
*Chamizal Dispute (1895–1963, U.S.-Mexico)
*Alaska Boundary Dispute (1907, U.S.-Canada)
*Bridge War (1932, Oklahoma-Texas)

Terror, paramilitary groups and guerrilla warfare

18th & 19th century

*Francis Marion (1780–1782)
*Bleeding Kansas (1854–1860)
**Wakarusa War (1855)
*Cortina Troubles (1859–1861)
*Kansas Jayhawkers (1861–1863)
*Quantrill's Raiders (1861–1863)
*Red-Shirts Hamburg Massacre {1876)
*Ku Klux Klan (1877–present)
*Knights of the White Camelia
*White League (1874–)
**Coushatta Massacre (1874)
**Colfax Riot (1874)

20th & 21st century

*Black Patch Tobacco Wars (1904-1914?)
*Mass racial violence in the United States (1917; 1919; 1921; 1943; 1965; 1967)
*Wall Street bombing (1920)
*Capitol Attack (1954)
*Weathermen (1969–1976)
*Symbionese Liberation Army (1970s)
*U.S. Embassy Bombing (1983)
*Marine Barracks Bombing (1983)
*World Trade Center bombing (1993)
*Oklahoma City bombing (1995)
*U.S. Embassy Bombings (1998)
*USS Cole Bombing (2000)
*9/11 (2001)
*Puerto Rico counter guerilla training operations (since 1950s)

Labor-management disputes

*Great Railroad Strike (1877)
*Homestead Strike (1892)
*Pullman Strike (1894)

State and national secession attempts

*Westsylvania (1776)
*Green Mountain Boys (1777–1791)
*State of Franklin (1784 - 1790)
*Republic of West Florida (1810)
*Republic of Indian Stream (1832–1842)
*Free City of Tri-Insula (1861)
*Confederate States of America (1861–1865)
*State of Jefferson (1941)
*Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket secession attempt (1977)
*Conch Republic (1982)

Covert operations, coups, military advisors etc.

Due to the secretive nature of certain covert interventions, certain cases are a matter of dispute.

1890s

* Baltimore Crisis (Chile, 1891)
* Hawaiian Coup (Hawaii, 1893)

1940s

* C.I.A. and British MI6 put the Shah on the Iranian throne 1942.
*Greek Civil War (1946-1949)
* 1949 CIA helps overthrow the democratically elected government of Syria, which brings in the dictatorship of Husni al-Za'im

1950s

* 1953 CIA and British MI6 successfully orchestrate the removal of democratically-elected Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh, and installs the Shah as dictator.. (See Operation Ajax) [2] [3]
* 1954 CIA-orchestrated overthrow of elected president Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in Guatemala. (See Operation PBSUCCESS)

1960s

* 1961 CIA involvement in the assassination of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, ruler of the Dominican Republic. [4] [5] [6]
* 1961 US-sponsored failed invasion of Cuba. (See Bay of Pigs Invasion)
* 1961 - 1962 CIA and Department of Defense covert plans and operations against Fidel Castro. (See The Cuban Project, Operation Mongoose, Operation Northwoods)
* 1962 - 1974 Secret War in Laos.
* 1963 US backs coup against South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963.[7]
* 1964 Brazilian Military Coup
* 1963 - 1964 CIA involvement in riots and violence in Guyana in order to undermine the Marxist People's Progressive Party and its leader, Cheddi Jagan.
* United States intervention in Chile
* 1967 CIA-organized military operation ends in capture and execution of Che Guevara by the Bolivian Army.
*Operation Condor (Latin America, 1960s–1970s)

1970s

* 1970 US supported unsuccessful coup against Salvador Allende (See Chilean coup of 1973, Project FUBELT) The following list cites foreign interventions taken by the United States since 1945 which have been claimed, but not necessarily proven.
* 1961-1963 -- Ecuador. Ecuadorian President José María Velasco Ibarra was overthrown by a military coup in 1961 and replaced with his vice-president Carlos Julio Arosemana, who in turn was overthrown in 1963 and replaced by a more consistently anti-Communist military junta. Philip Agee has alleged CIA involvement in both coups. [8][9]
*1967 -- Greece. CIA-backed military coup ushers in Regime of the Colonels in Greece.
*1982-1983 --Guatemala. Support for military dictator Efraín Ríos Montt in Guatemala {1982-1983.} CIA support for the coup that brought him into power.
*1960s-1970s -- Italy. CIA support for Operation Gladio, a false flag terrorist campaign against civilian targets in Italy perpetrated by units controlled by Italian military intelligence and blamed on Italian far left groups. See Prime Minister Aldo Moro.
*1979 - 1984 -- Yemen. American intervention in civil war.
*1987 --Fiji. Support to coup against Timoci Bavadra, democratically-elected Prime Minister.
*1990-1991 -- Bulgaria, Albania Corruption of elections in Bulgaria in 1990 and in Albania in 1991.
*1991 -- Haiti. U.S. Support for ousting Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
*2002 -- Venezuela. CIA-backed abortive coup against democratically-elected President Hugo Chávez.
*2004 -- Haiti. U.S. Support for ousting of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. (See: 2004 Haiti rebellion) The U.S. government also threatened action against Jamaica in the event that Jamaica were to provide residence to Aristide.
*2004 -- El Salvador. Interference in Salvadoran presidential election. US threatened to take reprisals if the country would elect the socialist candidate Schafik Handal.
*2004 -- Equatorial Guinea. Support (along with Spain and Britain) for a failed coup plot against Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

Miscellaneous

*Yankee-Pennamite Wars (1769–1784)
*Oconee War (1784)
*Burr Conspiracy (~1804–~1807)
*Chesapeake Affair (1807)
*Little Belt Affair (1811)
*Railroad War (1853–1855)
*Hatfields and McCoys (1860–1891)
*Sinking of the General Sherman (1866)
*Fenian Invasion of Canada (1866)
*Brooks-Baxter War (1873)
*Virginius Affair (1873)
*Canal Zone Riots (1964)
*Israeli Attack on USS Liberty (1967)
*Kent State Shootings (1970)
*War on Drugs (~1972—)
*Iran Hostage Crisis (1979–1981)
*Iraqi Attack on USS Stark (1987)
*USBATF Raid on Branch Davidians (1993)

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