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Declaration of Independence
Congress picked a committee to write a declaration explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain. -
Monroe Doctrine
US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in the early 19th century. 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
The Roosevelt Corollary is 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.No exact date -
World War 1
WW1 was immediately precipitated by the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a Serbian nationalist in 1914. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the Lusitania enraged Americans and hastened the United States' entrance into World War I . -
Good Neighbor Policy
President Roosevelt wanted to improve relationships with Central and South America. -
World War II
The Second World War was started by Germany in an unprovoked attack on Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler had refused to abort his invasion of Poland. The War ended in the Summer of 1945. It is estimated that 50 million people lost their lives during World War 2. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii -
Bombing of Hiroshima
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a United States policy to stop Soviet expansion during the Cold War. -
Korean War
Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America -
Eisenhower Doctrine
The term Eisenhower Doctrine refers to a speech by President Dwight David Eisenhower -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion (approximately $160 billion in 2014 dollars) -
Cuban Missle Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. -
Operation Desert Storm
It was the Gulf War, War waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
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. -
War On Terror
It was with disbelief and shock that people around the world saw footage of the terrorist attacks in the US on on September 11, 2001 when the planes-turned-missiles slammed into the World Trade Center towers and damaged the Pentagon.This ultimately resulted in the US declaring and waging a war on “terror” -
Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghanistan's Taliban government harbored Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda terrorist group, who were responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. After they refused to turn over Bin Laden, the U.S. and UN coalition forces attacked. -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
n his speech to the nation that evening, Bush told Americans that Iraq was the next target in an ongoing worldwide battle against terrorism that had begun with America's attack on Afghanistan's Taliban government in September 2001
