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The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two global superpowers, the United States (U.S.) and the Soviet Union (USSR). The aftermath of World War II was also defined by the rising threat of nuclear warfare, the creation and implementation of the United Nations as an intergovernmental organization, and the decolonization of Asia, Oceania, South America and Africa by European and East Asian ...
Elements of the 101st Airborne Division, (1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry) and Air Force MAC (Military Airlift Command) units are in theater for four months & are the first U.S. military forces in the region since World War II. 1981: El Salvador: After a guerrilla offensive against the government of El Salvador, additional U.S. military advisers ...
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1945 to 1989 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1945 and 1989.Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.
The post–World War II economic expansion, also known as the postwar economic boom or the Golden Age of Capitalism, [1] [2] was a broad period of worldwide economic expansion beginning with the aftermath of World War II and ending with the 1973–1975 recession. [1]
69 Year of the Four Emperors; 69–70 Revolt of the Batavi; 86–88 Domitian's Dacian War; 101–106 Trajan's Dacian Wars; 166–180 Marcomannic Wars; 193 Year of the Five Emperors; 208–210 Roman invasion of Caledonia; 235–284 Crisis of the Third Century; 238 Year of the Six Emperors; 267–269 Gothic War (267–269) 274 Battle of Châlons
The global Jewish population was estimated at approximately 11 million in 1945, following the significant losses incurred during World War II and the Holocaust. It took 15 years for the Jewish population to increase by one million, reaching 12 million by 1960.
1981–1982 — The killing of 6-year-old Adam Walsh (1981), and the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old newspaper carrier from Des Moines, Iowa (1982), raise awareness of missing children cases in the United States. 1983 – 241 U.S. Marines are killed by a suicide bomb in Lebanon. 1983 – The United States invades Grenada.