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Sinking of the Lusitania
During the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes. -
Monroe Doctrine
It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. -
Roosevelt Corollary
a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that was articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03. -
World War One
A global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war. -
Good Neighbor Policy
The policy's main principle was to stop the actions of non-intervention and non-interference in the affairs of Latin America. -
Marshall Plan
The American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion in economic support to help. -
Operation Desert Storm
The first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War presented itself in August 1990. -
Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)
The official name used by the U.S. government for the War in Afghanistan -
War on Terror
The War on Terror (WOT), also known as the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. -
9/11
were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed almost 3,000 people and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage.
