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START II accords held by America & Russia to limit nuclear weapons
START II - Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. It's bilateral treaty between the United States of America and Russia on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. -
American Invasion and Occupation of Haiti
The United States Government had been interested in Haiti for decades prior to its occupation. Haiti’s stability was of great interest to U.S. diplomatic and defense officials who feared instability might result in foreign rule of Haiti. -
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
Agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico entered into force.NAFTA created the world's largest free trade area.Trade between the United States and its NAFTA partners has soared since the agreement entered into force. -
Kenya and Tanzania Bombings
U.S. President Clinton said the strikes were a response to an "imminent threat" to the U.S. posed by a terrorist network backed by Osama bin Laden. Clinton said that the U.S. had "convincing information" that the network organized and financed by bin Laden had carried out the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. -
US & NATO bomb Yugloslavia
This bombing ends the Kosavo War. Strikes lasted from March 24, 1999 to June 10, 1999. The official NATO operation code name was Operation Allied Force; the United States called it Operation Noble Anvil, -
Terrorist Attack on the Twin Towers
Militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. -
US & NATO invade Afganistan and overthrow the Taliban
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Taliban were overthrown by the American-led invasion of Afghanistan. Later it regrouped as an insurgency movement to fight the American-backed Karzai administration and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). -
President George W. Bush outlines foreign policy
During his campaign for election as President of the United States, George W. Bush's foreign policy platform included support for a stronger economic and political relationship with Latin America, especially Mexico, and a reduction of involvement in "nation building" and other small-scale military engagements. -
US invades Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 19 March 2003 to 1 May 2003 and signaled the start of the conflict that later came to be known as the Iraq War, which was dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States. The invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland, invaded Iraq and deposed the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. -
Navy Seals raid Al-Quaeda and kill Osama Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan by Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six).
