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US enters World War 1 in 1917
This breaks our policy of Isolationism and we join WW1. -
World War 2 begins in 1939, US stays neutral.
We didn't see a reason to join the war yet so we stayed neutral. -
We are still uninvolved in war and we fail to predict a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, we enter the world in 1941.
We also had ships sunk by German U-Boats, this was a no brainer to get into the war. Italy and Germany shortly after Pearl Harbor declare war on US. -
1943 Roosevelt and Churchill meet and agree axis nations must agree to unconditional surrender.
This is an asymmetrical move by the US as we will not accept anything less and we topped the axis moves by coming at them full steam ahead. -
We forced Germany to surrender in 1945.
This is what we promised to do and we delivered. -
In 1945 the U.S. bomb Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
This begins the nuclear era and shows other countries that the U.S. is not to be messed with. -
US helps South Korea army defeat communist South Korea.
They succeed but they got too greedy and got China involved, they ended up splitting Korea in the the middle at the 38th parallel. This is an example of the U.S. containing communism (1950-53) -
We continue the battle against Communism and in 1961, we declare a space race against Soviet Union.
There was no fighting going on, but this was still a statement to the rest of the world that Communism is never better. -
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan in 1979.
We quickly fund and support groups to stop the communist invasion, this eventually backfired on us despite winning this battle. -
Navy Seals invade Al-Queda and kill their leader, Osama Bin Ladan in 2011.
This was a big event in our war against Terrorism.
