In 1823, US President James Monroe declared that European imperial powers should stay out of the Western Hemisphere in what is now known as the …
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American Interventions in Global Politics
In 1979, the small Caribbean nation of Grenada underwent a communist revolution that peacefully installed a socialist government in the former …
In the early 1980s, the Cold War was heating up again after a period of detente from the mid-1960s to late 1979. The tiny Caribbean Island nation of …
During the Vietnam War there were four standalone strategic bombing campaigns, lasting from just a matter of days to several years. They …
Also called small wars, these expeditions influenced the development of Marine Corps tactics and counterinsurgency strategies for future conflicts. …
The CIA conducted a series of covert operations to overthrow the Castro regime, which included assassination attempts on Fidel Castro.
After World War II, the nation of Yugoslavia was an Eastern European socialist state that was proudly independent of fealty to the Soviet Union. …
As the United States pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021 after a 20-year strong military presence, the world became increasingly interested in American …
The Mexican Revolution was perhaps the most consequential event in the country’s modern history. Although internal affairs and dynamics mainly drove …
From 1980 to 1988, Iraq and Iran fought each other in one of the most brutal industrialized wars since World War II. The Iran-Iraq War saw the United …
During the Cold War, Central America and the Caribbean had been ripe for communist insurgencies, including Cuba, Grenada, and Nicaragua. High poverty …
