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1973: Operation Nickel Grass, a strategic airlift operation conducted by the United States to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. 1974: Evacuation from Cyprus: United States naval forces evacuated U.S. civilians during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
The timeline of wars has been split up in the following periods: List of wars: before 1000. List of wars: 1000–1499. List of wars: 1500–1799. List of wars: 1800–1899. List of wars: 1900–1944. List of wars: 1945–1989. List of wars: 1990–2002.
7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021. (19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) First phase: 7 October 2001 – 28 December 2014. Second phase: 1 January 2015 – 30 August 2021 [34][35] Location. Afghanistan [a] Result. Taliban victory [36] Islamic State–Taliban conflict and insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continues.
The United States has been involved in 108 military conflicts. 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. It also includes US involvement in widespread periods of conflict like the ...
The timeline of the Gulf War details the dates of the major events of the 1990–1991 war. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 and ended with the Liberation of Kuwait by Coalition forces. Iraq subsequently agreed to the United Nations ' demands on 28 February 1991. The ground war officially concluded with the signing of ...
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia. The other alliance was led by France, backed by Spain, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia. Related conflicts include the 1754 to 1763 ...
The timeline of events of the Spanish–American War covers major events leading up to, during, and concluding the Spanish–American War, a ten-week conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States of America. The conflict had its roots in the worsening socio-economic and military position of Spain after the Peninsular War, the growing ...