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t made a British claim to land in Canada, mistaking it for Asia, during his 1497 voyage on the ship Matthew
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an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to people of the Old World.
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was a Portuguese explorer and the first person to navigate a route to the East and India
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was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
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was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire. He captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa, and claimed the lands for Spain
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was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown
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was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.
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Series of clashes between the Powhatan Confederacy and English settlers in Virginia.
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Chief of the Powhatan Indians and father of Pocahontas. As a show of force, Powhatan staged the kidnapping and mock execution of Captain John Smith in 1607.
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Series of clashes between English settlers and Pequot Indians in the Connecticut River valley.
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Last-ditch effort by the Indians to dislodge Virginia settlements. The resulting peace treaty formally separated white and Indian areas of settlement.
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Series of assaults by Metacom, King Philip, on English settlements in New England. The attacks slowed the westward migration of New England settlers for several decades.
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Pueblo Revolt (aka. Pope's Rebellion) centered in Santa Fe
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Began with an Indian attack on Newbern, North Carolina. After the Tuscaroras were defeated, remaining Indian survivors migrated northward, eventually joining the Iroquois Confederacy as its sixth nation.
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the 13 colonies fighting their way to freedom from britain under the leadership of george washington
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a series of armed conflicts when the Cherokee fought to prevent the encroachment of American settlers into eastern Tennessee and eastern Kentucky
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a continuation of the Second Cherokee War that included a larger number of native tribes attempt to halt the expansion of settlers into Kentucky and Tennessee
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a series of battles with various native tribes in present-day Ohio. The goal of the campaign was to affirm American sovereignty over the region and to create increased opportunities for settlement
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debtor's revolt over a credit squeeze that had financially devastated many farmers
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a series of protests against the institution of a federal tax on the distillation of spirits as a revenue source for repaying the nation's war bonds
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an undeclared naval war with France over American default on its war debt.
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Temporary possession was authorized by President James Madison and by Congress, to prevent occupation by any other power; but possession was obtained by General George Mathews in so irregular a manner that his measures were disavowed by the President
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the United States declared war against the United Kingdom. Among the issues leading to the war were British impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy,
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Engagements between pirates and American ships or squadrons took place repeatedly especially ashore and offshore about Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and Yucatán.
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General Andrew Jackson took Pensacola and drove out the British forces
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General Andrew Jackson went to New Orleans to stop the British from attacking them from the back.
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United States naval forces suppressing piracy landed on the northwest coast of Cuba and burned a pirate station
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U.S. forces under Commodore John Downes aboard the frigate USS Potomac landed and stormed a fort to punish natives of the town of Quallah Battoo for plundering the American cargo ship
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After the annexation of Texas in 1845, the United States and Mexico failed to resolve a boundary dispute and President Polk said that it was necessary to deploy forces in Mexico to meet a threatened invasion
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After a massacre of foreigners (including Americans) at Jaffa in January, a demonstration by the Mediterranean Squadron was ordered along the Turkish (Levantine) coast
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an American naval force landed to seek reparations for attacks on American residents and seamen
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The Utah War was a dispute between Mormon settlers in Utah Territory and the United States federal government. The Mormons and Washington each sought control over the government of the territory, with the national government victorious
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forces from two United States warships landed to protect American property during a revolution in Montevideo.
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Congress authorized a naval squadron to seek redress for an attack on a naval vessel in the Paraná River
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after the civil war there were a lot of things that could of been done to help the north and the south reunite and there be a lot of things that there could of been carried out if president lincol lived long enough
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split the south of the confederate during the civil war as part of the anaconda plan, along the Mississippi river which helped the north win the civil war
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US forces destroyed the pirate ship Forward, which had been run aground about 40 miles up the Teacapan Estuary in Mexico.
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July 14 to 18, American forces landed to protect American interests during warfare between British and Egyptians and looting of the city of Alexandria by Arabs
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American forces landed to protect American interests during warfare between British and Egyptians and looting of the city of Alexandria
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US forces sought to protect American lives and property on Navassa Island
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On July 6, striking miners attacked Pinkerton National Detective Agency agents attempting to break the strike by bringing non-union workers to the mine. 6,000 Pennsylvania state militiamen were sent to reinstate law and order. 16 dead, 27–47 wounded
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May 2 to 4, US forces protected American interests in Corinto during political unrest
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On April 25, 1898, the United States declared war with Spain, ostensibly aligned with Cuban rebels. The war followed a Cuban insurrection, the Cuban War of Independence against Spanish rule and the sinking of the USS Maine in the harbor at Havana.
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Philippine–American War, US forces protected American interests following the war with Spain, defeating Filipino revolutionaries seeking immediate national independence
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American troops participated in operations to protect foreign lives during the Boxer uprising, particularly at Peking. For many years after this experience a permanent legation guard was maintained in Peking, and was strengthened at times as trouble threatened.
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the world war 1 started after the assassination of archducke ferdinand
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a suprise attack from the japan army from the axis powers to try to force the untied states to join the axis powers to help the win over the allied powers.
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On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war with Germany and on December 7, 1917, with Austria-Hungary. Entrance of the United States into the war was precipitated by Germany's submarine warfare against neutral shipping and the Zimmermann Telegram
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after many of the bombings didnt seem that were gonna make any difference in the war to scare the axis powers, the united states dropped 2 atomic bombs the first war that they will ever be used in and shook the world with the destruction
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After the Soviet Union established a land blockade of the U.S., British, and French sectors of Berlin on June 24, 1948, the United States and its allies airlifted supplies to Berlin until after the blockade was lifted in May 1949.
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occupation of south korea with rising tensions with north korea and southern korea
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The United States responded to the North Korean invasion of South Korea by going to its assistance, pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions.
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U.S. 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 falsely termed were attacks on U.S. destroyers, in what came to be known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident, President Johnson asked in August 1964 for a resolution expressing U.S. determination to support "freedom and protect peace in Southeast Asia.
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known in Hispanic America as Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos (or Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Girón), was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on April 17, 1961.
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On October 22, President Kennedy instituted a "quarantine" on the shipment of offensive missiles to Cuba from the Soviet Union. He also warned Soviet Union that the launching of any missile from Cuba against nations in the Western Hemisphere would bring about U.S. nuclear retaliation on the Soviet Union. A negotiated settlement was achieved in a few days.
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Operation Frequent Wind, On April 3, 1975, President Ford reported U.S. naval vessels, helicopters, and Marines had been sent to assist in evacuation of refugees and US nationals from Vietnam
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The U.S., United Kingdom, and its Gulf War allies declared and enforced "no-fly zones" over the majority of sovereign Iraqi airspace, prohibiting Iraqi flights in zones in southern Iraq and northern Iraq, conducting aerial reconnaissance, and several specific attacks on Iraqi air-defense systems as part of the UN mandate.
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united states started to intervene with the invasion of kuwait from iraq. they decided to fight for the independence of the Kuwait people ad for the united states could help to remove the iraq infuence.
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in response to the attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon, unted states invaded afgan to destroy and find al-qaeda and hold them responsible to the terrorist attacks
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in effort of the war on terror and to protect the world the unted states invaded iraq to eliminate the possibility of having weapons of mas destruction.
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the united states of america has started to do drone bombings on al-qaeda al shabaab and isis positions in yemen
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in 2010 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that as of September 1, 2010, the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" would be replaced by "Operation New Dawn".
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in 2011 navy seals went in a secret mission to kill osama bin laden as part of the operation Neptune spear
