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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Indepence was a document that stated American citizens rights and freedom's. But the independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776. On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. It wasn't signed until August 2, 1776. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was created by President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States. -
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. -
World War 1
World War 1 aka the First World War or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on July 28th, 1914 and ended on November 11th, 1918. 7 million civilians died as a result of the war, It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, paving the way for major political -
Sinking of the Lusitania
A British passenger ship sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland in 1915. Germany, then at war with Britain but not with the United States had warned Americans against traveling on the ship. -
Good Neighbor Policy
The Good Neighbor Policy was a popular name for the Latin American policy pursued by the administration of the U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was suggested by the president’s commitment to the approach marked a departure from traditional American interventionism. -
World War 2
World War 2 was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts that began earlier. It involved the majority of the world's nations involving all of the great powers, eventually forming two opposing military forces. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack conducted by the Japanese Navy against the United States naval base in Hawaii. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
it was destroyed in World War II by the first atomic bomb used in warfare (August 6, 1945). The rebuilt city is an important commercial and industrial center. Population: 1,160,000. Hiroshima -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a United States policy to stop Soviet expansion during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Korean War
방전쟁, Joguk Haebang Jeonjaeng, "Fatherland Liberation War"; The Korean War strted on June 25th 1950 till July 27 1953. It was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long armed conflict that involved North Vietnam and its southern allies, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
The Eisenhower Doctrine was a speech by President Dwight Eisenhower which incled "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East". -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Operation Desert Storm
the United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted 100 hours (1991) Gulf War, Persian Gulf War - a war fought between Iraq and a coalition led by the United States that freed Kuwait from Iraqi invaders; 1990-1991. -
9/11
9-11 was when there were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group in New York City and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Many were killed in this fatal aattack. -
War on Terror
Aka the Global War on Terrorism is a term which has been applied to an international military campaign that started after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, and is still happening to this day. -
Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)
the official name used by the U.S. government for the War in Afghanistan, together with a number of smaller military actions, under the umbrella of the Global "War on Terror" (GWOT). -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
The Iraq War was an armed conflict in Iraq that consisted of two phases. The first was an invasion of Iraq starting on 20 March 2003 by an invasion force led by the United States. -
Airstrikes on ISIS
