timeline of American Foreign Policy

By jye52s

  • 1953  

    Iran: U.S. and Britain support Shah's coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq

  • 1954

    Overthrows democratically-elected president Arbenz of Guatemala 200,000 civilians killed.

  • 1963

    Us, backs assassination of south Vietnamese President Diem.

  • 1963-1975

    American military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia.

  • 1973

    U.S. stages coup in Chile. Democratically-elected President. Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed 5,000 Chileans murdered.

  • 1977

    U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador 70,000 Salvadorans killed and four American nuns killed.

  • 1980s

    U.S. trains Osama Bin Laden and fellow to kill Soviets. CIA gives them 3$ billion.

  • 1981

    President Ronald Reagan escalates "Second Cold War" with heavy new military spending and research in new weapons, esp. "Star Wars"; forward strategy for Navy;

  • 1982

    U.S. provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.

  • 1983

    White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Irans.