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On September 6, 2021, the United States evacuated four American citizens (specifically, an Amarillo, Texas woman and her three children) from Afghanistan via an overland route, marking the first overland evacuation facilitated by the US Department of State since the military withdrawal. The Taliban was aware of the evacuation and did not make ...
The United States was first referred to as a superpower in 1944; In July 1945, the United States conducted the first nuclear test, and one month later became the first and only country to use nuclear weapons in war; Collapse of Nazi Germany; Fall of Japanese Empire and Italian Empire; End of Fascism in Europe and Japanese militarism in Asia ...
"Name of Technical Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon to be added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial". DoD. Lawrence, A. T. (2009). Crucible Vietnam: Memoir of an Infantry Lieutenant. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-44517-2
This is a list of conflicts in the United States. Conflicts are arranged chronologically from the late modern period to contemporary history. This list includes (but is not limited to) the following: Indian wars, skirmishes, wars of independence, liberation wars, colonial wars, undeclared wars, proxy wars, territorial disputes, and world wars.
The 15 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year. [2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program .
The most familiar of these in the present day are probably the Cold War, which included the Korean War (1950–1953), the Vietnam War (1955–1975), and the Persian Gulf War (1990–1991); and the War on terror, which included the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the Iraq War (2003–2011). These groupings provide useful context for the ...
Graph of US military deployments per year The largest number of deployments in any one year was 29 in 2017 , followed by 16 in 2019, 15 in 2014, and 14 in 2018. A few deployments were not for combat , including three evacuations in 1974 and 75 and typhoon relief in 2012 and 13.
Pathet Lao (since 1949) Khmer Issarak. United Issarak Front (since 1950) Supported by: China Soviet Union East Germany (since 1950) France French Indochina. Kingdom of Cambodia (since 1946) Kingdom of Laos (since 1947) State of Vietnam (since 1949) Supported by: United States Republic of China (until 1949) Victory. 1954 Geneva Conference.