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The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House
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was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803
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A conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theatre of the Napoleonic Wars; in the United States and Canada, it is seen as a war in its own right
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was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States
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Was fought between the United States and Spain
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A global war originating in Europe, more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history
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is an artificial 48 mile waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.
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A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico
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International agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes
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the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world
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It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries
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Intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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Was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II
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The central principle contained in its articles is that an attack against one is to be considered an attack against them all; this was known as the "hemispheric defense" doctrine
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An Act to promote world peace and the general welfare, national interest, and foreign policy of the United States through economic, financial, and other measures necessary to the maintenance of conditions abroad in which free institutions may survive and consistent with the maintenance of the strength and stability of the United States.
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One of the first major international crises of the Cold War
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is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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war between North Korea, with the support of China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea, with the principal support of the United States
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Was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
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A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506
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A wall that divided Berlin into two areas, east and west
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The confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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Bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War superpowers, on the issue of arms control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II.
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Name was given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party
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Bilateral treaty that signed twelve days of secret negotations at Camp David
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Bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War superpowers, on the issue of arms control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II.
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End of the seperation between east and west Berlin
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codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
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is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America
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Three Al-Qauda terrorists hijacked and crashed two planes into the Twin Towers
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Is an international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001
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A protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein
