American History Timeline
American Involvement in Wars from Colonial Times to the Present
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Dates |
War in Which American Colonists or |
Major Combatants |
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July 4, 1675 - |
King Philip's War |
New England Colonies vs. Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Nipmuck Indians |
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1689-1697 |
King William's War |
The English Colonies vs. France |
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1702-1713 |
Queen Anne's War |
The English Colonies vs. France |
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1744-1748 |
King George's War |
The French Colonies vs. Great Britain |
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1756-1763 |
French and Indian War (Seven Years War) |
The French Colonies vs. Great Britain |
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1759-1761 |
Cherokee War |
English Colonists vs. Cherokee Indians |
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1775-1783 |
English Colonists vs. Great Britain | |
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1798-1800 |
Franco-American Naval War |
United States vs. France |
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1801-1805; 1815 |
Barbary Wars |
United States vs. Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli |
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1812-1815 |
United States vs. Great Britain | |
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1813-1814 |
Creek War |
United States vs. Creek Indians |
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1836 |
Texas vs. Mexico | |
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1846-1848 |
Mexican War |
United States vs. Mexico |
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1861-1865 |
Union vs. Confederacy | |
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1898 |
United States vs. Spain | |
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1914-1918 |
Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917. | |
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1939-1945 |
Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia | |
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1950-1953 |
United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China | |
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1960-1975 |
United States and South Vietnam vs. North Vietnam | |
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1961 |
Bay of Pigs Invasion |
United States vs. Cuba |
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1983 |
Grenada |
United States Intervention |
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1989 |
US Invasion of Panama |
United States vs. Panama |
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1990-1991 |
United States and Coalition Forces vs. Iraq | |
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1995-1996 |
Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
United States as part of NATO acted peacekeepers in former Yugoslavia |
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2003 |
United States and Coalition Forces vs. Iraq |