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1957 BCE
Little Rock
Handwritten notes by president Dwight D. Eisenhower on the decision to send federal troops to Little Rock during the Central High School integration crisis in September 1957. -
South Vietnam
President Kennedy approves sending 400 Special Forces troops and 100 other U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam. -
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
By 1968, the United States and lyndon b. Johnson had 548,000 troops in Vietnam and had already lost 30,000 Americans there. -
Vietnam War is ending
South Vietnamese forces would be built up so they could assume more responsibility for the war. As the South Vietnamese forces became more capable, U.S. forces would be withdrawn from combat and returned to the United States. In his speech, Nixon pointed out that he had already ordered the withdrawal of 60,000 U.S. troops. -
cold war
Jimmy Carter normalized relations with China and continued the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union. In an effort to end the Arab–Israeli conflict, he helped arrange the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. -
Grenada
Reagan sent troops into conflict only once. Without having to put our military forces into conflict. Only in one circumstance, which was in Grenada, did our forces go in a conflict setting. We were in a peacekeeping setting in Lebanon." -
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
In June 1989, the Chinese military suppressed a pro-democracy movement demonstrating in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Using tanks and armored cars, the military crushed the demonstrations and fired into the crowd, killing hundreds of protestors. Although Bush abhorred the Chinese government's violent crackdown in Tiananmen Square, he did not want to jettison improved U.S.-Sino relations by overreacting to events. -
Foreign policy of Clinton
These would include the deployment of military force in several regions primarily for the purposes of protecting civilians, or armed humanitarian intervention, as the result of civil war, state collapse, or oppressive governments, which would occur in Somalia and Rwanda, in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia, and in Haiti. Clinton also worked his foreign policy on long-running conflicts in Northern Ireland, and the Middle East, particularly the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. -
Hussein's regime
On March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush informs the nation that he has ordered U.S. troops into Iraq, promising a "broad and concerted campaign" against Saddam Hussein's regime. -
mexican border
President Obama orders the deployment of up to 1,200 troops to the US-Mexico border