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Dogs have long been employed in a wide variety of military purposes, more recently focusing on guarding and bomb detection, and along with dolphins and sea lions are in active use today. [1] A U.S. Navy dog handler at the War Dog Memorial in the National War Dog Cemetery at Naval Base Guam.
The end of World War II set the stage for the East–West confrontation known as the Cold War. With the outbreak of the Korean War , concerns over the defense of Western Europe rose. Two corps, V and VII , were reactivated under Seventh United States Army in 1950 and U.S. strength in Europe rose from one division to four.
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.
Pages in category "Military units and formations of the United States in the Cold War" The following 138 pages are in this category, out of 138 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
World map of alliances in 1970 The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz space rendez-vous, one of the attempts at cooperation between the US and the USSR during the détenteThe Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969, to the end of détente in the ...
That brisk trade ended in 1978, when India, already concerned about depleting stocks, banned exports after learning the U.S. used some of the monkeys in military experiments during the Cold War ...
The Cold War Museum has a multimillion-dollar collection of artifacts on display, on loan, or in storage. Museum holdings include but are not limited to artifacts from the 1948–1949 Berlin Airlift, the 1960 U-2 incident, a 5,000-square-foot (460 m 2) display on the Cuban Missile Crisis that includes a Soviet SA-2 missile and material from the USS Liberty Incident, USS Pueblo Incident, Corona ...