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This allowed for the expansion of white settlement and speculation in the region. The Cherokee, numbering around 22,000 individuals living in 200 villages, had maintained friendly relations with the British for trading and military purposes since the early 18th century.
War in the context of this list is broadly construed to be a direct armed conflict between organized U.S. military forces and organized forces of (a) belligerent(s). (Note: Ongoing wars are indicated in bold and with red bars.)
The military history of the United States spans over two centuries, the entire history of the United States. During those centuries, the United States evolved from a newly formed nation which fought for its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain (1775–1783) to world superpower status in the aftermath of World War II to the present. [ 1 ]
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On August 30, 2021, the last American military plane departed Afghanistan. [32] [33] Billions of dollars of foreign-origin military hardware that was formerly in custody of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan seized by Taliban [34] George W. Bush (October 7, 2001 – January 20, 2009) Barack Obama (January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017) Donald ...
The 48-year tenure of veteran presidents after World War II was a result of that conflict's "pervasive effect […] on American society." [2] In the late 1970s and 1980s, almost 60 percent of the United States Congress had served in World War II or the Korean War, and it was expected that a Vietnam veteran would eventually accede to the presidency.
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