Army History

By bp0102

  • Start of American Revolution

  • Continental Army Created

  • Declaration of Independence presented

  • British Surrender at Yorktown

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Treaty of Guadalupe

  • Confederates began Civil War/Firing on Ft. Sumter

  • Congress authorized creation of Medal of Honor

  • Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclaimation

  • First Medal of Honor Awarded

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    July 1-3, 1863

  • General Lee surrenders

    April 1865

  • United States enters WWI

  • Armistice Day (Veteran's Day) ended WWI

  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    December 1941

  • Women's Army Corps created

  • Allied Armies land in France

  • Start of Korean War

  • US Involvement in Vietname

    1955-1975
    MAAG in Indochina - Fall of Saigon

  • Operation Rolling Thunder approved

    by President Johnson; a series of airstrikes in North Vietnam

  • Operation Desert Storm

    Jan 17 of what year

  • Operation Restore Hope

    December 1992; American soldiers and Marines deploy to Somalia

  • Operation Enduring Freedom

    US responds to Sept 11 terrorist attacks; What month

  • Operation Iraqi Freedom

  • Saddam Hussein captured

    Month/Year